Meeting Notes - January 24, 2017
Christina Espinosa-Pieb – Chair
James Nguyen – Chair
Present:
Administrative Reps Bryant, Espinosa-Pieb, Kandula, Lee-Wheat, Ranck, Ray
Classified Reps: Martinez, Lorna Maynard, Trosper
Faculty Reps:Alves de Lima, Khanna, Leonard, Markus, Rick Maynard, Nguyen
Student Reps:
Absent: Coriena Andy, Arya Suprora
Visitors Mayra Cruz, Mallory Newell
Strong Workforce Program Funding –
The goal of the today’s meeting was to approve the Strong Workforce Program 2016-2017 Local Share and Regional Share Awards for CTE program requests that were submitted by departments last week.
The team reviewed both Local and Regional CTE program requests comparing what programs requested and the totals for 2016-2017 based on FTES generation and numbers of Awards (AA/AS, Certificates)
Strong Workforce Initiative link
After a lengthy discussion all requests were approved with clarification for Environmental Recourses Management program under “Supplies & Materials” and confirmation with Child Development. Nguyen to follow up with these two programs and communicate with the committee via email.
CTE Career Development section – to hire CTE dean, CTE Outreach coordinator and CTE counselor positions. The management position will be funding out of Regional share because it’s not tied to FTES. The members discussed concerns of future funding reductions to staff hired under this funding source. The majority of the committee approved moving forward with the hiring process with a suggestion to include “categorical funding-based position” into the job descriptions.
Purchasing office needs to be able to process the upcoming CTE programs’ requests in a timely manner.