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Published on 12/11/2023.

Meeting of the Audit and Finance Committee

The Audit and Finance Committee met prior to the regular meeting of the Board and approved our Audit Report for the year ending June 30, 2023. Thanks to the exemplary leadership of Julia Morrison and the demanding work of our business, admissions, and financial aid office staff colleagues we received an unmodified audit with no financial statement findings! The Board of Trustees and I are immensely proud of Julia and all the time she puts into leading our Administrative Office.

We also discussed the Community Stadium Upgrade Project with the members of the Audit Committee. As you may know, we have been working on the community stadium upgrade project for quite a while. Thanks to Leslie Marshall, we submitted the final design for the project to the Division of the State Architect.

During the design phase of the project, we discovered that the increased cost of labor and materials pushed the estimated construction cost higher than what we originally projected when we issued the Certificate of Participation (COP). Leslie worked with the Athletic Department and our consultants over the past several weeks to reduce the scope of the project to get closer to our budget.

To complete the project, we must identify additional funds beyond what we borrowed via the COP. Rather than borrow additional external dollars—which will be an additional financial burden that we do not want the College to assume—Julia and I are exploring a few additional internal and external funding mechanisms. Those potential funding mechanisms were discussed with the Audit Committee.

Regular Board Meeting

Comments/Board Business

Land Acknowledgement:  President of the Board Biggin read the District’s revised statement recognizing our area’s Indigenous Peoples as the original stewards of the land that College of the Redwoods occupies. 

We acknowledge that the land on which we are gathered today is unceded territory of the Wiyot, Hupa, Karuk, Mattole, Tolowa, Wailaki, and Yurok. We honor them and all neighboring tribes by our ongoing commitment to developing trusting, reciprocal, and long-lasting partnerships.

Member Comments: Board President Biggin mentioned that she attended the November CCLC Annual Convention and participated in several sessions: Reform Legislation and Your Campus Police, Ethics Issues for Trustees, ACCJC’s 2024 Accreditation Standards, Leveraging the Vision Resource Center for Local Professional Growth, Level Up: Explicit Value for Every Black Learner,  State of the System, Creating ZTC (Zero Textbook Costs) Pathways, and Guided Pathways Approach to Student Success.

Trustee Pedrotti also attended the November CCLC Convention.

Trustee Mathews shared that she met with Misty Knight and Irene Gonzalez-Herrera on the Del Norte Campus. Trustee Mathews also noted that she completed the recertification of the Excellence in Trusteeship.

Board Committee Reports: Trustee Dorn stated that the Audit Committee met before the Board meeting and approved the College’s audit. The committee also discussed the status of the community stadium project.

Organizational Procedures

Election of Officers: President, Vice President, and Clerk: An Ad Hoc committee was appointed at the October Board of Trustees meeting to propose a slate of candidates for Board officers. I am happy to report that the Board of Trustees, by unanimous vote, approved Dr. Rebecca Robertson as President of the Board Elect, Dr. Colleen Mullery as Vice President of the Board Elect, and Ms. Carol Mathews as Clerk of the Board Elect for 2024-25. They will formally take office in January.

Consent Calendar Action Items

Approve/Ratify Personnel Actions: By Board action, we welcome Elyse Elizondo to our college community as Assistant Professor, Communication Studies—Del Norte/Pelican Bay starting fall 2024. We also welcome four associate faculty as new faculty colleagues: Stacie Dowell – Nursing, Tia Graham – Coaching, Heather Mitchell – Nursing, and Shamara Turner – Nursing.

I want to congratulate Gary Ronne for his change of employee status from Student Development Advisor–TRiO to Student Development Advisor – Rising Scholar Juvenile Justice Program.

The Trustees also ratified my decision to accept the resignation of William Meriwether, Professor of History and Political Science effective December 31, 2023.

Curriculum Changes: The Board approved a curriculum agenda item that included the deactivation of the SOC 9 Introduction to Women’s Studies course, the revision of three courses: BUS 35 Marketing and Social Media, AFAM 1 Introduction to African American Studies, AFAM 2 The African American in the United States to 1877, and AFAM 3 The African American in the United States Since 1865. The Board also approved the new ASAM 1 Introduction to Asian American Studies course.

Approve the Academic Calendar: The Board approved the 2024-25 Academic Calendar. I want to thank CRFO, Alia Dunphy, and of course Amber Adkins, for getting this calendar to the Board.

Action/Discussion Items

Accept Final Audit: The Trustees accepted the final audit and expressed concern over the net pension liability related to CalSTRS and CalPERS.

Approve Monthly Financial Status Report:  In this month’s financial report, we noted that we did not make any budget adjustments to the College’s budget since its adoption in September. Except for our Capital Outlay budget, all our expenditures continue to be within budgeted amounts.

Our report continued to show that the $1,414,720 in total transfers out are comprised of $90,000 to the Child Development Center, $74,720 to the Shively Farm, $750,000 to the OPEB fund, and $500,000 to the Debt Service Fund.

Institutional Self Evaluation Report (ISER): I am extremely pleased to write that the Board approved our ISER by a unanimous vote. We will submit the ISER to the ACCJC by December 15, 2023. Following our submission, we expect the Peer Review Team to read our ISER at the beginning of the new year, develop Core Inquires on our ISER sometime in March/April 2024, and visit the College in September 2024. The Visit Team Report will be issued shortly after the Peer Review Team’s visit to the College.

If you’re interested in looking at our past accreditation materials, you can find 20 years’ worth of ACCJC documents on CR Accreditation Website. As we continue to generate documents and receive information from the Commission, the Accreditation Oversight Committee will continually update the College's accreditation website.

I want to thank everyone in the college community who worked on the ISER. Special thanks go to ALO Peter Blakemore, AOC Tri-Chairs Sean Thomas, Kerry Mayer and Crystal Morse and AOC members Molly Blakemore, Nicole Bryant-Lescher, Amber Buntin, Leigh Dooley, Tami Engman, Julie Gilbride, Mike Haley, Rory Johnson, Philip Mancus, Amy Moffat, Abigail Queen, Austin Roberts, Augusta Solem, Colin Trujillo, and Rachel Warze.

Moving forward, we will turn our collective attention to operationalizing the new 2024 Standards and Eligibility Requirements in the College. Making the change from the 2014 Standards (which we based our ISER on) to the new 2024 Standards will be significant. The new Standards will call on the College to focus on outcomes rather than on processes.

I attached a copy of the new 2024 Standards to this blog summary in case you are interested in comparing the Standards.

Approve Sabbatical Recommendation for 2024-25: I recommended that the Board of Trustees approve Professor Maria Morrow for a yearlong sabbatical for the academic 2024-25 year. Here is a summary of the planned activities she noted in her sabbatical application.

Activities in her sabbatical will directly contribute to initiatives and goals laid out in the new Education Master Plan. As Cal Poly Humboldt (CPH) transitions to a polytechnic university, more emphasis will be placed on applied learning for science majors. Our students will be better prepared to engage in these activities in their upper division courses if they have exposure and experience to applied learning at CR. Developing and improving labs for modern, applied methods and content (EMP Initiative 5) will better support students transferring to CPH (EMP Initiative 1), as well as students who are entering the job market (EMP Initiative 2).

Taking courses at CPH will allow her to improve the quality of BIOL-5, a lower division core majors course for science, technology, math, and engineering (STEM) students. This course contains six hours of lab activities each week and requires significant breadth and depth of knowledge to engage students across topics and provide relevant laboratory experiences. The updated content and improved lab experiences will be incorporated into the open-access lab manual, meaning that the benefits can extend to botany students outside of CR. These improvements will assist us in achieving EMP initiatives 1, 5, and 2 (as described above).

Improving the Environmental Science curriculum will contribute to pursuing the future of learning (EMP Initiative 5), as I will be learning more hands-on activities and sustainability-focused projects that I can incorporate. Students will be provided with more skill building opportunities and exposed to more concepts in environmental engineering. Developing an Environmental Methods course will support students transferring to CPH as Environmental Science majors (a required lower division core course), students engaging in or considering undergraduate research, and people looking for or currently working in jobs in entry-level jobs in environmental science and natural resources (EMP Initiatives 1 & 2).

Increasing the presence and influence of indigenous knowledge and stewardship in our science curriculum will improve local environmental and cultural relationships and awareness. This supports community building, resilience, inclusion, and a more holistic, responsible, and relevant curriculum (EMP Initiative 6).

Updating open educational resources to be more printer-friendly will allow students with unique needs and abilities to have more equitable access to this content (EMP Initiative 6). Updating the content for scientific accuracy and more effective lab experiments will not only improve our local courses but could increase usage of and confidence in OERs for students worldwide.

Finally, she can apply what she learns in this sabbatical to improve our outdoor campus through work with the Outdoor Campus Collaborative. This interdisciplinary, diverse group of folks has been growing over the past year and is accomplishing amazing things! They have collected data on many groups of organisms across the CR campus, developed a chapter in the new Facilities Master Plan to consider our campus natural resources, installed critical habitat, improved outdoor campus access, instigated, and informed the development of an outdoor classroom, and created a wealth of interpretive materials for engaging with the natural world. This group continues to foster opportunities for experiential, project- and place-based learning across the Eureka campus and hopefully soon, the district (EMP Initiatives 2, 5 and 6). They are working to develop an OCC Canvas page where resources, activities, data, and interpretive materials can be shared. This would allow faculty in other disciplines to access place-based and project-based learning activities more easily, as well as facilitate independent research projects for students. Courses that she will take at CPH will directly contribute to facilitating this work, including courses in freshwater ecology (FISH 320, FISH 443), research methodology (ESM 230), restoration (ESM 555), and traditional ecological knowledge (NAS 101, 308, and/or 331).

Tangible Deliverables

1. Engaging place-based and project-based activities for the Outdoor Campus Collaborative Canvas shell that can be accessed by all faculty.
2. Second edition of the Lab Manual for General Botany OER, available on LibreTexts.
3. New labs for Botany (BIOL-5) and Environmental Science (ENVSC-10).
4. At least one new case study for ENVSC-10, which can be shared broadly via QUBES hub.
5. Updated content for the botany textbook and photographic atlas

Informational Reports

Recognitions: In this board agenda item, I recognized several of our faculty and staff colleagues as well as our student athletes for their achievements.

• Campus Safety Officer (CSO) Hernandez, CSO Sisson, and Lead CSO Stanley in saving the life of a person in the LRC. In the commendation from Chief Perkins, " These three members of the CRPD/Campus Safety Team have demonstrated a high degree of professionalism and esprit de corps that are intrinsic to the mission of the College of the Redwoods Police Department."
• Assistant Professor Gabrielle Gopinath for getting her article published in Sculpture magazine — a review of Robert Benson's exhibition at Cal Poly Humboldt's Goudi'ni Native American Arts Gallery titled "Tintah — Amongst the Trails". Bob Benson, art professor emeritus, was a member of the College of the Redwoods Arts faculty for more than three decades. 
• Mitchell Lucky, District Accounting Analyst, for exemplary service to the District. Due to Mr. Lucky's knowledge, experience, and professionalism, the Business Office has become more efficient and effective, and the District and Foundation audits were completed in a timely manner.
• Assistant Professor Stuart Altschuler for his unique and remarkable conversation with some of the demonstrators at the recent California Democratic Convention in Sacramento. 
• Assistant Professor Nathalie Dierkx, Social Work and Human Services, Del Norte/Pelican Bay State Prison, for being selected to receive the 2024 Emancipation Through Education Award at the Advocacy and Policy Conference on February 25, 2024.
• Assistant Professor/Head Coach Jason White and the CR football team for capping off a successful season with a 63-0 win over Hartnell College in the 2023 Grizzly Bowl. Also recognized were the ten CR football players who earned All PAC-7 honors in fall 2023.

1. Max Hough--Fortuna High School (Fortuna, California)
2. Levi Cox-Cooley--Del Norte High School (Crescent City, California)
3. Anthony Aquirre--Ferris High School (Spokane, Washington)
4. Cale Kuska--Maxwell High School (Maxwell, California)
5. Tyse Whigham--Canyon Springs High School (Las Vegas, Nevada)
6. Jayden Sandusky--North Medford High School (Medford, Oregon)
7. Tanner Forkner--Del Norte High School (Crescent City, California)
8. Mason Priddy--Columbia River High School (Vancouver, Washington)
9. Ryan Thomas--Lathrop High School (Lathrop, Alaska)
10. Lane Bransttter--Ferndale High School (Ferndale, California) 

• Assistant Professor/Head Coach Brandon Benvenuti and Assistant Coach Kaci Lyle for leading our men’s wrestling team for a fourth-place finish (out of the ten teams competing) in the recent Northern California Regional. Also recognized were the seven wrestlers who qualified for the state championship:

1. Dakota Sanders--Arcata High School (Arcata, California)
2. William Smith--Anderson High School (Anderson, California)
3. Kymani Capri--Ukiah High School (Ukiah, California)
4. Anthony Smith--Anderson High School (Anderson, California)
5. Jeffrey Skyrud--Folsom High School (Folsom, California)
6. Juan Magallon--Ukiah High School (Ukiah, California)
7. Gerard Marshall--Hoopa Valley High School (Hoopa, California)

Assistant Professor Gabrielle Gopinath, Assistant Professor Stuart Altschuler, Coach White, and several of his football student athletes attended the Board meeting. The Trustees publicly acknowledged their fabulous achievements.

CVC-OEI: Leigh Dooley provided a wonderful update on CR's distance education program and CVC-OEI initiative. I attached her PowerPoint presentation to this summary blog.

Sabbatical Leave Reports: Professors Riggs, Mancus, and Sayles discussed the results of their 2022-23 sabbaticals with the Board. I attached their reports to this blog article. I believe that you will see from their sabbatical leave reports that they fulfilled the intent of their leaves.

Annual Plan: I attached the Annual Plan that was developed by the Institutional Effectiveness Committee and subsequently sent to the Board at this meeting. If you look at the plan, you will see that the IEC worked on mapping each action item to specific key activities from the EMP Initiatives #1-6 and noted that Cabinet members will be held accountable for accomplishing the actions.

Organizational Reports

Academic Senate: President Dr. Herrera's written report noted that:

• The Senate unanimously supported the ISER.
• AP 4106 was approved (Regular and Substantive Interaction) by unanimous vote and was presented by Leigh Dooley.
• Nicole Bryant-Lescher provided a Guided Pathways report to the Senate.
• Kerry Mayer presented activities related to grants that have been developed and approved, including many that support the creation of programs in CTE funded by Strong Workforce.
• She attended Plenary and voted in accordance with feedback provided by faculty and attended presentations focused on dual enrollment, supporting associate faculty, engaging in collaboration with HR in hiring, supporting diversity in leadership, serving African American students, resolutions from the Academic Senate, and legislative actions.
• The Senate will continue to focus on how to realize the aspirations of ASCCC in a manner that best suits CR.
• President Herrera and Vice President Wall met with the Administration to discuss creating a structure for EMP oversight.

CRFO: President Haggerty’s written report noted that the Emancipation through Education award from FACCC will be given to Nathalie Dierkx at the Advocacy and Policy conference in February 2024. Nathalie was nominated for this award by Ashley Knowlton.

She also wrote that she has been spending time looking at how community colleges are funded. One specific area that she finds problematic is the base allocation being calculated with the full-time equivalent student (FTES) formula.

CSEA: President Engman’s report noted that Mark Bernards will serve another 2-year term as 1^ST Vice President, Iris Vasquez will join us as the new Vice President – Del Norte, and Rachel Warze will be the new Treasurer. Her report also included a response to CRFO’s November report related to IT services.

Management Council: President Barber’s written report highlighted Katrina Hanson and the work of the Basic Needs Center (BNC) and thanked Dr. Peter Blakemore for discussing the ISER with the Management Council. She also acknowledged everyone who served on the Accreditation Oversight Committee and the Management Council representatives on the Accreditation Oversight Committee including Molly Blakemore, Nicole Bryant-Lescher, Leigh Dooley, and Colin Trujillo.

Student Trustee: In her report, Student Trustee Godfrey noted that: 1) ASCR swore in Ishwar Sharma and Christopher Wilson as Eureka Senators; 2) nearly all ASCR members attended the SSCCC Advocacy Academy virtually; 3) the ASCR approved a budget that projects $161,000 in expenditures; 4) the KT Campus Senator Stephanie McKindley hosted a finals event and a unity tree event at the KT Instructional Site; and 5) ASCR chartered several clubs including the QSU, Welding Club and the Computer Science club.  Looking forward, ASCR is going to send students to the SSCCC General Assembly in the spring and is exploring campus beautification projects.

Administrative Reports

President/Superintendent's Report: Included in my written report was information relative to the State’s budget. I noted that California experienced strong revenue growth in recent years, but State forecasters are estimating a shortfall in revenues. This is primarily due to lower current-year personal income tax withholding and estimated payments, a weaker stock market, and the risk of an economic slowdown resulting from high inflation and interest rate hikes intended to combat inflation. Under these lower revenue estimates, state leaders will explore a combination of solutions to address the budget shortfall.

I also noted that:

• The President of the ACCJC, Dr. Mac Powell accepted an invitation to visit College of the Redwoods on Wednesday, February 28, 2024. A general notice will be disseminated to the college community when the itinerary of the visit is finalized.
• We have been in discussions with Bear River Rancheria leadership to establish a permanent home for CR's baseball team. Dr. Tom Jackson, Chairperson Joe Davis, and I signed an MOU that establishes a formal partnership between College of the Redwoods, Cal Poly Humboldt, and the Hoopa Valley Tribe to strengthen the educational experience and cultural relevance for Hoopa Tribal members attending both CR and Cal Poly Humboldt. We are working with the leadership of the Wiyot Tribe to discuss allocating some vacant land on the Eureka Campus for a Wiyot Tribe place for ceremony, education, and ritual that would be linked to CR’s Outdoor Campus Collaborative project.
• We are aware that, over past few years, the IT staff have endeavored to provide cyber security, privacy awareness and training, address data governance and compliance, integrate digital instructional technologies to improve teaching, work to improve CR’s technological operational efficiency, support a hybrid teaching environment, and provide an easy and intuitive way to access CR technological resources. We are in the process of contracting with external resources to help us identify how we can position the IT department to continue to support the College to meet the mission and educational goals.
• I asked Dr. Morse to review BP 5500 Standards of Conduct and AP 5500 Student Conduct Code and Disciplinary Procedure through the lens of supporting free expression of ideas and ensuring that students are not subject to physical violence, threats, and harassment. Threats and intimidation do not have a place at College of the Redwoods.

In my verbal comments I stated that the search for an additional Eureka Campus based tenure-track faculty position for fall 2024 has been authorized. The additional tenure-track position is Fire Technology.

Vice President of Instruction Report: Lisa’s written report focused on the actions centered in Del Norte.

Adult Education

• Planned for Spring: EDUC 207 – Getting Started w/ Computers
• Planned for Spring: EDUC 225 – Hi-Set Prep (DN Jail and CRDN)
• Planned for Spring: ESL 210/211 (pending identification of qualified instructors)
• Planned for Spring: Phlebotomy
• Planned for Spring: Wildland Fire 
• Planned for Summer or Fall Cohort: Medical Assisting
• Ran CT-25 (OSHA) class this fall as part of an effort to develop a Heavy Equipment Operators sequence 

Dual Enrollment

• Course Alignment in progress for Agriculture
• Exploration of dual enrollment options in Psychology underway
• Regular meetings scheduled with Del Norte High School Administration to identify pathways and minimally qualified teachers

As part of the faculty prioritization process, a full-time faculty position in Ethnic Studies for Del Norte/Pelican Bay in Ethnic Studies was approved. This position will be hired this spring with an anticipated start date of Fall, 2024.

On November 27, a Career Speaker Panel was held on the Del Norte campus in conjunction with Laurrie McKendry’s Intro to Business class. The Career Exploration Panel featured three accomplished Del Norte professionals: Kevin Hartwick, a CPA and Managing Partner, Emily Reed, Public Relations Manager at the Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation, and Cindy Vosburg, Executive Director of the Del Norte Chamber of Commerce. Each panelist shared their unique journey, discussing both their educational background and personal experiences that have shaped their careers.

In her verbal comments, Lisa shared that she is impressed with the sabbatical reports of Professors Riggs, Sayles, and Mancus.

Vice President of Administrative Services Report: In her written report, Julia noted that our 50% Law calculation for 2022-23 was 50.30% and our Fall 2023 full-time faculty compliance number was 57.2 (while the total full-time equivalent faculty we have is 76.5). Therefore, based on the FON, we have 19.3 more faculty than we are obligated to have.

In her verbal comments, Julia noted that we received Scheduled Maintenance funding from the State in 2022-23. A portion of the funding was allocated to Del Norte to repair the roof leak that is impacting the library as well as the broken skylights above the main building hallway. It took some time, but Rory and Shane were able to solicit a quote from a roofing company for the roof repair. We will publish a Request for Proposal (RFP) to solicit competitive responses from general contractors who can repair the roof, manage the removal and replacement of the HVAC equipment, and fix the skylights. Our intention is to get the RFP published as soon as possible, and for the recommendation to award to the lowest responsible bidder go to the Board of Trustees at the March 5, 2024 Board meeting, if not sooner.

Vice President of Student Services Report: Crystal’s written report noted that we hosted a Native American Community College Motivation Day on the Eureka Campus and the Klamath Trinity Instruction Site. She thanked the following colleagues for their help with the event: Dr. Kintay Johnson, Irene Gonzalez-Herrera (MEC); Katrina Hanson, Theresa Lancaster-Huffman (Retention/Basic Needs); Cedric Aaron, Lacie Meyer, and Sherrie Porter (EOPS); Andrew Nichols (DSPS); Christina Morse, Courtney Sousa, and Samantha Broadstock (Admissions & Financial Aid); Leo Canez (Outreach); Reed Elmore (RISE club advisor); Susan Gehr (Librarian, RISE club advisor); and student colleagues serving as student panel members: Gavyn Albers, Dorene Markussen, Bubba Riggins, Jewely Knight, Diamond Knight, and Beth Masten.

She also wrote that her office hosted a daylong leadership retreat for the Associated Students of College of the Redwoods (ASCR) executive leadership and senators on November 18, 2023. Additionally, ASCR had a robust delegation in attendance to the first annual SSCCC Advocacy Academy held December 1-3, where the Senators engaged in deep dive learning about the legislative process and student senate’s role, current initiatives, and future focal points of the SSCCC. This group of nine ASCR attendees took the opportunity to clarify local issues around student housing, identify potential campus and community partners, and develop an action plan for engaging with this and other key issues affecting the CR student body. 

In her verbal comments, Crystal touted the professionalism and leadership of our ASCR.

Interim Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives: Kerry recognized the work of Jim Ritter who has served as CR's Director of Employer Partnerships (DEP) for the last year and who is retiring this month. CR’s DEP position is one of 11 funded through the Strong Workforce Program and is administered through Shasta College on behalf of the North Far North Regional Consortium. Jim’s work on behalf of CR over the last year has been instrumental in building and supporting partnerships with our area chambers of commerce, service clubs, the President's Advisory Council, and local businesses and nonprofits.

Kerry mentioned that we are working with Shasta College to move Montel Vanderhorck into Jim’s position when he retires.

Executive Director of College Advancement and the Foundation: In his written report, Marty report noted that:

• Professor Ruthe Rhodes presented the “Story Map” for faculty work at the recent Foundation Board meeting. This project was funded by an Academic Innovation Grant.
• The Foundation Board approved the Innovation Grants Committee’s recommendations to award up to $5,000 to Shannon Sullivan, for her Stand Our Ground Next Time 2.0 Project, up to $22,000 to True North Organizing Network (True North) for their partnership with the College of the Redwoods (CR) Multicultural Center and piloting a yearlong Student Success mentorship program for twelve 7th-12th grade students from historically underrepresented communities in the Eel River Valley.
• The Foundation Board established an Ad Hoc Committee to review the creation of a scholarship fund to support College of the Redwoods employees looking to complete a degree at Cal Poly Humboldt.
• We thanked Jason Ramos and Blue Lake Casino & Hotel for their title sponsorship of the NorCal Grizzly Bowl, Kevin & Tammy Wilcox for sponsoring the Grizzly Bowl teams' meal, and Demello, McAuley, McReynolds & Holland for support of the bowl game.

In his verbal comments, Marty noted that we will hold a grand opening for the Floyd Bettega Art Gallery in March. Also, we are ordering championship rings for the football team and plan to hold a ring ceremony in the spring. Marty also commented that we installed a bench next to AT 104 as a memorial for Mark “Radar” Sigworth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS, REPORTS, REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION

Approve a Trustee Request to Place an Item on a Future Agenda or Direct Staff to Give a Regular Report: The Trustees directed me to agendize a discussion of a protocol they may want to use to guide trustee interactions with staff and constituent groups. I will include a suitable discussion item in the February or March regular meeting of the Board agenda.