BOARD REPORT - JUNE 2013

Congratulations to Sharon and Gary for your re-election to the board. I am very glad to have your continued dedication on behalf of the college and our students.

Congratulations to Matt Keating on your election. I'm looking forward to the energy you bring from your student and budget committee experience into your new role on the board.

Susie, I do want to say something about your years on the board, but I am saving that for a little later in tonight's meeting.

Kudos to Pat O'Connor:
* Oregon Coast Community College recently named its community room in his honor. As you know, Pat was OCCC president from 1990 until 2011 when we were lucky enough to get him back at Lane.
* Also, thanks to Pat and Executive Dean Dawn DeWolf for the front-page story in The Register-Guard about the job market for college grads. It was obvious that Lane grads get jobs.
* Finally, Pat and welding instructors Al Laskey and Mark Huntington scored high marks with Oregon OSHA following a welding safety training. I received a letter from OSHA that said, "To say our expectations were met would be an understatement. It's relationships like this that make us here at Oregon OSHA very proud to be affiliated with fine academic institutions like Lane Community College and tremendous individuals such as Pat O'Connor and his staff."

One of our culinary graduates recently was featured in The Washington Post food section. Carly Rodgers runs the kitchen for a sustainable community of 92 people near Charlottesville, North Carolina. Her parents wrote to Clive Wanstall to thank him for helping Carly achieve her dreams.

Hats off to student Corinne Moon for editing and producing Denali, our literary arts magazine, using new equipment and software obtained with donations made possible through Student Life and Leadership Development, thanks to the leadership of Dean Barb Delansky and support from Division Dean Susan Carkin. Denali is now available online—and you also have copies at your places.

Congratulations to our Men's and Women's Track and Field teams who defeated all comers and won the NWAACC Championship. The Women's team won by an amazing margin of 79.5 points and the Men's team won by a 5.5 point margin. Lane's Kara Hollock was the Women's championship high point scorer and Allie Church was the Women's Outstanding Track Athlete. Madison Seaman was the Outstanding Field Athlete. Grady O'Connor was named Coach of the Year.

Titan Baseball pitcher Kenyan Middleton was drafted by the Los Angeles Angels major league team. Kenyan is the highest-drafted player ever for the Titans.

Kudos to our Black Student Union and faculty member Mark Harris for dedicating a monument to Wiley Griffon, Eugene's first African-American mentioned by name as a resident. You might have seen the story on the front-page in Saturday's Register-Guard.

Today's RG also had a wonderful front-page piece on one of Women in Transition and Ford Foundation Scholarship students, Margaret Innocenti. The women's program and the Ford scholarships make a tremendous difference in students' lives.

Lane custodians have now logged more than 200 work days without a time-loss accident or injury, an achievement that won them a feature in a national trade publication, Facilities Alert. Thanks to Dave Willis for his outstanding leadership in providing safety training to his employees, and for support from Dennis Carr.

I am pleased to congratulate the extraordinary instructors who received Faculty Recognition Awards last week. They are writing instructor Michael McDonald, aviation maintenance instructor Herb Moore, and social science instructor Stan Taylor.

Congratulations to James McConkey, Classified Employee of the Month for June. He is the man behind the scenes, that is to say, our longtime technical director in Music, Dance & Theatre Arts. James began working at LCC part-time in 1997. He is well known and sought after throughout the local theater community.

At our annual Employee Recognition Gala last month, we applauded 30 retirees; 3 40-year employees; 4 30-year employees; 19 20-year employees; and 36 10-year employees. It's very hard to let go of our retirees and I will say thank you just one more time to our retiring instructional leaders, Andrea Newton, Don McNair, Kate Barry, and Ken Murdoff.

Tonight you will have your annual budget hearing. I would like to thank the Budget Committee for performing this challenging task with dedication and professionalism. Thanks also to Jen Steele and her team and Don McNair for their exemplary work on behalf of the Budget Committee. Thanks also to the employees and students who served on the College Council Finance and Budget Subcommittee whose work informed the Budget Committee. As it happens, the Committee is recommending a budget based on a Community College Support Fund of $450 million, and we have since learned that that is the amount currently favored in Salem.

Before I continue, I would like to ask Brett to come to the podium and provide a brief update on legislative bills. [Brett Rowlett gave an update on the Community College Support Fund and legislative bills he is tracking.]

Lane Day at the State Capitol was May 15. Many thanks to all the staff and students who participated. The day gave us the opportunity to meet with all of our local legislators and show off our programs and clubs in the Capitol Galleria. Thanks to Tony, Pat and Matt for attending.

Members of Lane County's state legislative delegation were joined by Ways & Means Committee Co-Chair Representative Peter Buckley at the Downtown Campus on May 28 for a town hall meeting on the state budget. More than 100 community members attended. Thanks to Rosie, Susie and Pat for attending.

We are in the midst of program graduations and recognitions, and I hope you can all attend college graduation on June 15 at the fairgrounds. Participants need to line up about 3:30 p.m. The ceremony begins at 4 p.m.

After that, just a couple of things to keep in mind:
* The Fashion Design Program in Continuing Education will holds its annual show on June 22 at 6 p.m. at New Hope Christian College in Eugene. I get to be one of 120 models who will show the creations of students. My outfit is being designed and made by our own librarian, Marika Pineda.
* Note that the college will be closed on Fridays from June 28 through August 30.

I'd like to close my report by asking new KLCC general manager John Stark to come to the podium and take a few minutes to tell you about some of the programming changes coming to KLCC.  [Stark reported that KLCC is concentrating on the news program, featuring local content which integrates the program "All Things Considered" and responding to community needs.]