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         April 3, 2024 Governing Board Meeting.



         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  I'm going to call this meeting to order.

    Roll call.

         Board Member Luis Gonzales?

         >> MR. LUIS GONZALES:  Present.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Board Member Greg Taylor?

         >> MR. GREG TAYLOR:  Here.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Board Member Maria Garcia?

         >> MS. MARIA GARCIA:  Present.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Board Member Dr. Wade McLean?

         >> DR. WADE McLEAN:  Here.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  All of us are present today.

         Would you please stand and join me to say the Pledge of

    Allegiance.

         (Pledge of Allegiance.)

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  We want to acknowledge that Pima Community

    College is on the original homelands of the Tohono O'Odham people and

    the Pascua Yaqui who have stewarded this land since time and

    memorial.  The practice of acknowledging the land of these sovereign

    nations bring to the forefront their enduring connection to this land

    regardless of historical and current colonization practices.

         Let's also acknowledge that we all benefit from these lands in

    which we work and learn.  We encourage each of you today to learn

    about the land we inhabit, the tribal communities connected to this





    land, and the ways in which you can contribute to restorative

    practices related to land and community.

         Thank you.

         We are going to move the agenda around a little bit.  Normally we

    do call to the audience right now, but we have honored guests here

    that we are recognizing for awards.  We are going to move to the

    Governing Board recognition and awards.  Jeff Thies is going to be

    the master of ceremonies.

         Jeff, I apologize.  I should have mentioned to you that we were

    moving you up.  Sorry about that.  Thank you for being accommodating.

    Thank you.

         >> JEFF THIES:  All right.  I'd like to welcome our honored

    guests and their families to our semiannual Pima Community College

    Governing Board's recognition ceremony.

         The college encourages its employees and students to pursue civic

    and professional activities, and we are all pleased when they are

    honored by those organizations with which they are affiliated.

         Honorees, you're being recognized this evening because you

    received an honor or award from a local, state, regional, national,

    or international organization.

         Each of you received your recognition over this past year.

    Community members so honored at these celebrations are either an

    alumnus of the college or have created a significant relationship or

    partnership with the college.

         I was going to invite the board to come down, but I can see they





    beat me to it.  (Laughter.)  Always ahead, being proactive.  That's

    what we like.

         Colleagues and guests, we will introduce this year's honorees by

    groups.  First we'll do all of our students, and then we will do our

    employees.  We will announce their achievements as we call their

    names.  Please hold your applause until all members of each group

    have received their certificates.  Honorees that are unable to be

    with us this evening will be mailed their certificates.

         Honorees, as your name is read, please come forward to receive

    your certificate of recognition and stand to the side until the

    entire group has received their awards.  Once your group photograph

    has been taken with the board, we ask that you return to your seats

    until all of our honorees have been recognized.

         Our first group to be recognized are the PCC students who have

    received special awards and recognitions.  We will call the students'

    names in groups so that we can frame their photograph with the board

    according to the type of award or honor they have received.

         The first group, there is going to be five students called, if

    you could please hold your applause until all five have been called.

         First up, Kira Okuma.  Kira was selected as a 2024 All USA

    Academic Team and for placing on the First Team of the 2024

    All-Arizona Academic Team for the District Office.

         Teresa Billick.  She was selected as a 2024 Coca-Cola Academic

    Team Gold Scholar and for placing on the First Team of the 2024

    All-Arizona Academic Team for the East Campus.





         Kira and Teresa, if you're here, you can start walking this way.

    If not, we'll be sending your award in the mail.

         Next up is Daniel Schessler, selected as a 2024 Coca-Cola

    Academic Team Gold Scholar and for placing on the First Team of the

    2024 All-Arizona Academic Team for the West Campus.

         Matthew Arcarese.  Is Matthew here?  Selected as a 2024 Coca-Cola

    Academic Team Silver Scholar and for placing on the First Team of the

    2024 All-Arizona Academic Team for the East Campus.

         Last in this group is Oskar Anderson, who was selected as a 2024

    Coca-Cola Academic Team Silver Scholar.

         First group, 0 for 5?  Let's give them a round of applause.

         (Applause.)

         >> JEFF THIES:  I know we have one for sure in the next group.

    We don't have to break for a photo.  On to the next.

         Emma Brack placed on the First Team of the 2024 All-Arizona

    Academic Team for the Desert Vista Campus.

         Khalil Gatto placed on the Second Team of the 2024 All-Arizona

    Academic Team for the Downtown Campus.

         Nicole Gil Lopez placed on the Second Team of the 2024

    All-Arizona Academic Team for the Northwest Campus.

         Nicholas Davis, selected as a 2023 -- hey.

         (Applause.)

         >> JEFF THIES:  I know we were supposed to hold our applause, but

    I appreciate that.  (Laughter.)

         Let me tell you what Nicolas did.  He's selected as the 2023





    Oberndorf Lifeline to Completion Scholar from Phi Theta Kappa Honors

    Society.

         Magda Minerva Torres.  Magda was selected as the keynote student

    speaker at the Arizona Adult Education Institute.  Also selected to

    join the PCC delegation to attend the American Association of

    Community College Trustees.

         Arnold Montiel, selected to help raise awareness about Pima and

    Adult Education with Sierra Tucson at the State Capitol.

         (Applause.)

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Are we taking pictures?

         >> JEFF THIES:  Yep.  Picture time.

         If you want to come down and get closer to take that picture, go

    ahead.

         (Applause.)

         >> JEFF THIES:  This next group of seven were inducted into the

    National Adult Education Honors Society.  Daniela Shelby, Zurizaday

    Browne, Amber Crystal Owens, Eva L. Haro De Vasquez, Luckie Cruzita

    Munoz, Misty Zerr, Rita Chavez, all inducted into the National Adult

    Education Honors Society.

         Any of those students with us tonight?  0 for 7 on that group.

    Let's give them a round of applause.

         (Applause.)

         >> JEFF THIES:  Our next group of seven, also inducted into the

    National Adult Education Honors Society.  Abdul Aziz Waisu, KC

    Emminger, Mirdad Malikzada, Lilliana Lopez Ballesteros, Juan Mendoza,





    Roberto Antonio Curiel, Halyna Makitrenko.

         Round applause for this group.

         (Applause.)

         >> JEFF THIES:  And our final group of recipients, college

    employees who have received honors and awards outside of PCC.  Maira

    Rodriguez, selected as a Hispanic Association of Colleges and

    Universities Enlace Leadership Program Fellow.

         Valerie Vidal-King, selected as a Hispanic Association of

    Colleges and Universities Enlace Leadership Program Fellow.

         Chris Rodriguez, selected as a National Community College

    Hispanic Council Leadership Fellow.  Jennifer Madrid, selected as a

    grant recipient from the Center for First-Generation Student Success

    and NASPA-Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education,

    First-Generation College Celebration Grant.

         Dr. Suzanne Desjardin, recipient of the Dr. Alfredo de los

    Santos, Jr., Community College Award.  Dr. Vanessa Arellano, selected

    as one of the honorees for the Annual Tucson Hispanic Chamber of

    Commerce 2023 40 Under 40.

         Commander Ricardo Gutierrez completed a 10-week certification in

    Police Staff and Command from Northwestern University Center for

    Public Safety.  Officer Barry Marovitz honored by Mothers Against

    Drunk Driving as Pima College's Officer of the Year for his efforts

    in DUI detection and enforcement.

         Laurie Kierstead-Joseph selected by the Coalition on Adult Basic

    Education for the Outstanding Administrator Award.  Ginny Seltenright





    completed an eight-month Southern Arizona Workforce Leadership

    Academy.

         Let's give that group a hand.

         (Applause.)

         >> DR. DOLORES DURAN-CERDA:  Let's give all of our honorees

    another round of applause.  Isn't that amazing?

         (Applause.)

         >> DR. DOLORES DURAN-CERDA:  The college is so proud of our

    students and our employees and community members' achievements.  This

    is what Pima College is really about.  I'd like to also thank the

    support that family and friends have given to these individuals, as

    well.  Let's give them a round of applause, as well.

         (Applause.)

         >> DR. DOLORES DURAN-CERDA:  Thank you for joining us tonight.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  We are going to do section 1.8 [sic] for

    the Pima Mission Moment, PCC childcare program.  Julie Mendivil is

    the program manager at the Desert Vista Campus.  Edgar is introducing

    her, Edgar Soto from Desert Vista.

         >> EDGAR SOTO:  Chairperson Riel, members of the board,

    Chancellor Dolores Duran-Cerda, colleagues and guests.  Welcome, good

    evening.  I'm here to just kind of highlight our childcare program

    and talk a little bit about it, but just to let you know on the front

    end, I was very new to that when I got to the campus and realized how

    important this is.

         There is an economist named James Heckman who was a Nobel Prize





    winner and talks about every dollar you invest in childcare, there is

    a $4 to $16 return.  I'm no economist, but that sounds pretty good.

         We are really proud of this program and proud of Julie Mendivil,

    our program manager.  I'm just going to share a little bit about

    Julie.  Julie graduated from the University of Arizona with a

    bachelor's in child development, family studies.  She started at Pima

    Community College February of 2022 as the program manager for our

    CCAMPIS grant.

         Came from the department of services as a supervisor of childcare

    licensure for 25 years, and also worked for Child Protective Services

    for three years and in the childcare field working of special needs

    children.

         She's done an amazing job leading this grant, but her most

    valuable thing I tell her that she's done, she also played basketball

    for the University of Arizona from 1987 to 1990.  I think one of the

    best things we can do as leaders sometimes is stay out of people's

    way, and that's what I have tried do with Julie is stay out of her

    way, and then I don't want her to dunk on me or anything (smiling).

         I have stayed out of her way.  She's done an amazing job.  She's

    going to say a few words and then introduce her students.  Thank you.

         >> JULIE MENDIVIL:  Thanks, Edgar I've got to go a little higher.

    (Laughter.)

         Good evening, Chair Riel, members of the board, Chancellor

    Duran-Cerda, colleagues and guests.  I thank you for the opportunity

    to share about our program, the CCAMPIS Program, during this Mission





    Moment.  CCAMPIS Program stands for Child Care Access Means Parents

    in School.

         Currently our program has served 46 of our Pima College students,

    and of those 46 college students, we have served 54 of their

    children.  These children range in ages from infant to school age and

    are placed in high-quality childcare programs.  What we anticipate is

    that many of those 54 children will be future Pima College graduates.

         The program helps students remove the barrier of high cost of

    childcare so they can continue attending college by offering them

    full-time childcare slots at no cost.

         At the Desert Vista Campus, we have the DV early learning center,

    which is for ages three- to five-year-olds.  With the capacity of 20

    children, as of this month, we are currently completely full and we

    have a wait list.  All of those slots were taken by Pima students.

         Opening hopefully later this month will be on the Desert Vista

    Campus, we will have an Early Head Start program.  That will serve

    ages one- and two-year-olds.  This will have two small classrooms of

    eight children.  One room is already almost full with our Pima

    students, and we haven't even started advertising yet.

         Both programs at Desert Vista are operated by Child Parent

    Centers who oversees all of the Head Start programs in Southern

    Arizona.  The program also has an agreement with 17 childcare

    locations in Tucson where I can help accommodate students where

    Desert Vista is not a convenient location while they are attending

    classes at other campuses.





         Today I have asked a student to share their experience at Pima

    Community College and having their child in our Desert Vista early

    learning program.  I would like to introduce Ivan Luzenia (phonetic).

    He will be graduating this May with an associate's degree in science

    and continuing at the University of Arizona to study biochemistry.

    He and his girlfriend Brianna, who is also here, are both students at

    Pima College, and both will be graduating in May.

         They have their daughter Isabelle in our preschool program, and I

    would like to invite Ivan to share what his program has done for him

    and his family.

         >> Hello.  Thank you for having me.  My name is Ivan Luzenia.

    I'm not your typical college student.  I'm 28 years old.  I have two

    daughters, little older.  Growing up, I was a teen parent.  At 19 is

    when my daughter was first born.  So college kind of was a back

    thought for me.

         I instantly went into the workforce and tried to support my

    family.  It wasn't until I had my second daughter, Isabelle, I kind

    of started to realize that these dead-end jobs just weren't going to

    cut it anymore.  I really had more aspirations and more dreams for

    myself and for my family.

         When I decided to make that decision and enroll into Pima

    Community College, you know, we didn't really know how we were going

    to go about it, but once we got in, I learned about CCAMPIS and what

    a great program that's been.  We were able to get Isabelle into this

    Desert Vista early learning center, and her development from when she





    first started to now has been, it's evident, you can see it.  It's a

    great program.

         I feel like, you know, with the situation that I'm in with my

    kids, it's kind of like an outlier, but for the most part, I believe

    most CCAMPIS students are mothers.  I started to do a little bit of

    research and I saw that a lot of teen mothers don't seem to get

    college degrees.  In fact, I believe from the Bureau of Labor

    Statistics, they said in 2019 only 2% of teen mothers get a college

    degree before the age of 30.

         That's just a really bad statistic.  But CCAMPIS is on the

    forefront of trying to help these people progress.  I think it's

    beneficial for everyone when we have more of the degree-holding

    citizens in our community, it's definitely a benefit for everyone.

         Just with that being said, I feel like this program is great.  I

    hope you guys continue to fund it.  Personally I feel like you should

    maybe expand it a little bit more so we can reach out to few more

    people that might need the help.

         Anyways, I don't want to take more time.  Thank you.

         (Applause.)

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Any questions from the board?

         What are our plans to expand these programs to maybe one or more

    campuses?  Is there any discussion on that?

         >> JULIE MENDIVIL:  So I know Child Parent Centers, who currently

    runs the Head Start programs, has interest in possibly having another

    program, an Early Head Start or a preschool program, at other





    campuses, and we have started that process to reach out for interest.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Great.  Thank you.  That sounds wonderful.

    Thank you.  Thank you, all.

         Okay.  Now we are going to jump to the action items 5.1 and 5.2.

    What we are doing is we are going to have call to the audience after

    we hear the presentation from the committee on the Drachman

    properties.

         Then we are going to hold the call to the audience, so people who

    are speaking about the Drachman properties will have an opportunity

    to speak there at that time.

         Makyla, I know you signed up to speak about college business.

    Would you like to speak right now, or would you mind waiting till

    that point?  Okay.  Thank you.

         So we are going to move to the action items, section 5.1.  I

    would like to make a motion to move that the two board members

    currently on the chancellor selection committee, myself and

    Vice-Chair Dr. Wade McLean, that we change our capacity in that

    committee just to be a sitting member but a nonvoting member.

         So is there a second to my motion?

         >> MS. MARIA GARCIA:  Second.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Any discussion?

         All in favor, say aye.

         (Ayes.)

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Motion passes unanimously.  Thank you.

         Moving on to the next item, 5.2, this is the Drachman properties.





    Nina Corson is going to come up and talk and I think introduce the

    members of her committee that are here so we can recognize them for

    the excellent work they did on the committee.

         Are you okay with that?

         >> NINA CORSON:  Oh, yeah.  Would you like me to introduce them

    first?

         I do have a presentation.  Is somebody going to bring that up, or

    do I need to do it?

         I'll just jump around in my slides a little bit.  Julie made this

    way too high for me (smiling).

         Let's jump down to the workgroup members.  I do have a number of

    them with us tonight.  These individuals have been very generous with

    their time over the last six months.  They have all joined this

    workgroup because of their interest and dedication to the Drachman

    corridor.

         They each have interest either because of the historic nature of

    the area, because of the Thrive in the 05 initiatives, or, in some

    cases, we have two individuals with us tonight who live just a block

    or two away from the campus.

         So let me introduce you to a couple of them before we get

    -- well, I will introduce you to everybody that's here that I know

    that's here.

         We have Kristina Scholz who lives right across the street from

    the campus.  We have Michael Edmonds who lives down in The Tucson

    House.  You're going to hear from those two later.  They really





    contributed a lot to the proposal that you will see tonight.  They

    are the heart of that work, and they created that work.

         We also have Ken Scoville.  I think I saw Ken.  Ken participated

    in the committee, educated us on the benefits of adaptive reuse, he

    arranged tours for us of other historical properties that have been

    adaptively reused.

         I think we have Alison Miller from the city.  I believe I saw

    her.  Alison Miller represented Thrive in the 05.

         Are there any other city reps here?  Oh, Barbara, I'm sorry.  I

    don't have my glasses on.  Barbara also works with the city and was

    quite helpful in some of, like, the land lease option that we'll talk

    about later tonight and the RFQ process, et cetera.

         We have Marlene Avelino.  She represented Ward 4.  Ward 3.  Thank

    you.  Stuck on East Campus.  It was right next to Ward 4.  So Ward 3.

    She kept us on time, she was the heart of our committee, and I have

    to give her credit because of some comments that she made one night

    that really helped open the door to the committee to have some

    difficult conversations with each other.  So I really credit her for

    that work.

         Jessica Bassey from the University of Arizona is the one who

    educated us in depth on what a land lease option is and shared with

    us some of the times where the University of Arizona has done such a

    process, so she's here if you have questions about that.

         I don't think Allyson or Dre are with us.  Marcy Euler from the

    Foundation was here.  I know you already know her.  We have Aster





    Schaefer who was a student rep on this workgroup.  Aster is also the

    Downtown Campus student senator.  He is a busy young man, and I

    appreciate him being here tonight.

         We have Dennis Just, one of our faculty members.  He teaches

    astronomy.  He's with us here tonight.  And Jeff Silvyn and myself.

         So that's your workgroup.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Nina, could I just interrupt you real

    quick?  We want to thank you all for your time and dedication to help

    the board make this pretty important decision.  We don't enter this

    lightly.  We really value your knowledge, your experience, the time

    that you put in this activity of bringing forth these propositions to

    the board.

         Nina said, and I don't mean to talk for you, but she said this

    was a great experience, that the people she worked with were amazing.

    I just really want to thank you all for everything that you have done

    to help us along with this decision.  Thank you.

         (Applause.)

         >> NINA CORSON:  Thank you.  Awesome.

         So before we get started, I just want to remind the board and

    remind everybody that is here with us tonight what our workgroup's

    charge actually was.

         So several months back, the board provided a directive to our

    chancellor to form this external workgroup made up of community

    members and some college employees, as well, to provide some

    proposals to the board.  You asked us to look at specific uses of the





    existing buildings if adaptive reuse is to be done, what could we use

    those buildings for that would benefit the students and the

    community?

         Then you also asked us, if we wanted to go that route, what

    external funding could we find to help develop those properties.  You

    also asked us to look at what we would do with that land if we do not

    preserve the buildings, and in addition to that, if there is any

    external funding that can be utilized to help the college develop

    that land.

         So those are the four things that you asked us to do.  I'm

    pleased tonight to be able to share with you the proposal that the

    workgroup came up with.  I am not going to present that to you

    myself.  The workgroup members are going to do that.

         I will tell you that the proposal that we put forth to you was

    voted on at our very last workgroup meeting last month, and there

    were no negative votes.  There was nobody that voted no to it.  So I

    think that is pretty significant.

         So I think Robin is next.  I want to introduce to Robin Shambach.

    I did not introduce her because although she was not technically a

    member of our workgroup, she did facilitate every meeting for us.  So

    I'm going to let her talk next to give you an overview of what we did

    over the last six months and the approach that we took.

         After we are done with our full presentation, we are hoping that

    you will vote to ask the college to move forward with the RFQ

    process, and we will be here to answer any questions you have.





         Okay.  Robin, you ready?

         >> I am.

         >> NINA CORSON:  Thank you.

         >> Thank you, Nina, and thank you for having me here tonight.  It

    was an honor and a pleasure to work with these group of volunteers

    who care so much about the mission of Pima Community College.

         My task tonight is just to remind you briefly where the

    properties are along Drachman, and they are highlighted in the blue.

    It's all three of the former hotel sites.

         I also wanted to -- can I just enter and that advances this?

    Down arrow.  Beautiful.  Great.

         I want to give you an overview of the activities that this

    workgroup did over a period of about six months, from the time that

    they were asked to participate until the time we got here tonight.

         We had an outline of what we thought maybe the structure of the

    workgroup sessions would be, but in our very first session, we had a

    general conversation about making sure that the group understood the

    board directive and talked a little bit about what that meant in more

    detail.  In that, we also, in the first meeting, we also had a

    brainstorming of what kinds of uses these workgroup participants who

    represent a wide range of interests thought might be useful and meet

    that goal of serving the mission of Pima College students.

         What we realized in that conversation is that we wanted the

    workgroup to take ownership of the trajectory of how the meetings

    would follow one another based on the information that they felt





    necessary to do their work, and then sort of the life that this

    process took to bring us here today.

         So the second meeting, at that meeting, as we talked about uses,

    then the workgroup realized that they needed to know a little bit

    more of the big picture of what Pima Community College offers across

    our community.  So Nina and others put together a wonderful

    presentation that it gave an overview of not just Downtown Campus but

    what services are provided over all of the sites across the community

    and what different services are planned in the master plan for its

    centers of excellence and other services that need to be provided to

    meet the mission and may be provided at other locations.  That was

    very helpful to give us, the workgroup, some opportunity to think

    about appropriate uses on this site.

         We also toured the buildings.  That was our next meeting.  A good

    number of the workgroup were able to attend the tours.  We got to

    walk around all three properties and through certain select areas

    that were made safe for the group to visit so we could get a sense of

    what those spaces are actually like and the condition that they are

    in as of today.

         We were also, through the organization of Ken Scoville, and thank

    him for doing this, also able to tour some examples of adaptive reuse

    in the neighboring area.  The Ghost Ranch Lodge, which is used for

    senior housing, and Monterey Court, which is a fun retail

    entertainment venue.  That was also very educational.

         At the next meeting, we really honed in on what potential funding





    sources there might be, and we talked through a range of grant

    opportunities with the focus on the Thrive in the 05 grants and what

    those grants might support that would overlap, in a fancy Venn

    diagram, with what services might be also appropriate on the site,

    and some of those were highlighted in the presentation you'll see

    tonight.

         Then we also had a more detailed presentation on the land lease

    development options and a conversation about some sample RFQ

    opportunities to engage potential private partnership development in

    assisting the college to get to its eventual goals.  That was really

    helpful.

         What we realized in that conversation is that of the giant fat

    document that makes up an RFI, which is a request for interest, or an

    RFQ, request for qualifications, there is a very important one- or

    two-page piece that includes the design parameters.

         Work subgroups then volunteered to spend time together separately

    from the major group to develop and hone in on what those design

    parameters should include to meet the interests of the surrounding

    neighborhood but more importantly the board mission, what would serve

    the college.  So that's the heart of the presentation tonight.

         In February those subgroups met to work on those and then those

    were then presented back.  At the end of February, where the group

    reviewed a draft, there was an open conversation about what was

    included in that draft document.  Edits were made.  And at the March

    14th meeting, we did a final review of that document, and then that





    is when the group voted and approved what is going to be presented

    tonight.

         Great.  Thank you.

         So I think next are Kristina and Mike from the workgroup to

    present the draft.

         >> Thank you.  Thank you, Robin and Nina.  Thank you, Board of

    Governors, for supporting the Drachman properties advisory committee.

         My name is Kristina Scholz, and I'm the neighborhood association

    president for the Bronx Park neighborhood, home to PCC's Downtown

    Campus and the Drachman hotels.  I'm here today to represent the

    group's works and thoughts around these design priorities that we're

    recommending for this request for qualifications.

         The workgroup and my neighbors are united in our desire to make

    this area a hive of education and economic activity.  Back in May of

    2023, when we had a similar meeting like this, I remember sending you

    all, the board, on behalf of my neighborhood, an e-mail, urging you

    to consider what the Drachman properties could be, focusing on reuse

    and revitalization over demolition and more parking.

         I'm happy to have been part of this solution by drafting these

    priorities as the logical next step in identifying a qualified

    developer who can help make the desired reuse and revitalization

    happen for all who study, own businesses, work and live in the area.

    This aligns with the neighborhood's goal of making our corner of

    Tucson a humane space to thrive in.

         As part of the recommended request for qualifications, the





    workgroup hopes to attract a developer who can envision a mixed-use

    development plan for the Drachman properties.

         This project should honor our history by preserving, at a

    minimum, the iconic signs and recognizing the original facades of the

    motel.  We want a design that complements our neighborhood and the

    PCC campus in terms of size and purpose.  We also hope to see

    proposals and qualifications that prioritize accessibility, mobility,

    and sustainability.

         In thinking about these aspects, I like to think about what the

    area will look like for my daughter in another ten years.  Right now

    she's three, and she knows the area for the Tucson Inn sign and the

    high fences.

         With these priorities, the workgroup is envisioning a project

    whereby the properties activate the opportunities of the area, a

    place that's connected to public transportation and bike routes with

    plenty of space to establish native shade trees and create a

    purposeful place for people to gather.

         The Drachman area can be seen, as a symbol of Tucson as a city,

    our evolution, from the days of motor tourism to now being home to

    some of the city's most advanced learning labs.  As we look into the

    future, the workgroup is excited about the potential of these

    properties to continue serving our community for learners, residents,

    and local business owners alike.

         These priorities, as you can see here, are open and flexible on

    purpose.  Given today's economic and real estate realities, the





    workgroup wants to set PCC up for success in attracting an ideal

    development partner who can bring a great design to life in a timely

    manner.

         Thank you for your time.  I'd like to turn it over now to my

    associate workgroup member, Mike Edmonds.

         (Applause.)

         >> Thank you to my neighbor.  My name is Mike Edmonds, and I'm a

    resident of Tucson House.  Been there for five years so far.  I'm

    also involved in the Thrive in the 05 initiative.  I'm an ambassador.

    I go around and talk to people about it and bring back information

    and try to get the neighborhood and the areas to understand the

    possibilities and opportunities that are coming and that I see and

    that could be.

         In addition to that, I'm also involved in high-capacity transit,

    the Tucson Norte-Sur, a line that's going to run potentially from

    Tucson Mall all the way out to the airport, and then this route which

    has been chosen which is going to run past Pima Community College,

    Tucson Rapid Transit.  That's Tucson Mall to downtown.

         First of all, thank you all for allowing me and us to be on the

    Drachman properties' advisory committee.  I am and we are speaking

    for our community.  We live in this area, and we know what our needs

    and desires are.

         Don't have all to say everything I'd like to.  I would love to

    sill down with you and have coffee and chat and we just talk about

    some things, but I'm going to try to summarize pretty much everything





    here that we have been talking about for months.

         I am not PowerPoint proficient, sorry.  Hard copy.  She's going

    to set this up.  Thank you.  And I worked for Microsoft (smiling).

         So here are some of the use priorities.  I assume you all have

    copies of the presentation.  Here are some of the use priorities that

    the workgroup identified.  These used to stem from previous studies

    that the college has done as well as considering some of the Thrive

    in the 05 initiatives the city hopes to implement.

         Again, these uses hope to inspire qualified developers to

    conceptualize a development that supports both the college and

    neighbors alike and create a space that is usable by all.

         We don't have time to really go through all of them, but I'm

    going to be selfish and choose three, if you will, just to chat about

    it a little bit.

         One is the community hub center.  I talk to people a lot in the

    area.  The best way I can describe the benefit of a community hub

    center is they don't have anywhere to go at all.  So that's why a

    community hub center with all of the services and just spaces and

    possibilities is a good idea to be used in this area.

         The second one is the PCC Downtown Campus uses.  Because I know,

    and I had to kind of learn this, I know you all want a return on

    investment of your properties.  I get it.  It took me a while.  It

    was all about me, me, me, but it's us.  I get it.

         So innovation center -- I will highlight the education technology

    portion of this, because I have been involved a lot lately, well, for





    months, in digital equity and digital inclusion, and that is a

    problem in the area.  It is a serious problem.  Anything that you

    might be interested in doing related to technology in that area would

    be a blessing for those who live in the Thrive area.

         They need experience, they need access, they need support, there

    are a lot of needs there, a lot of needs.  If anything, maybe the

    ACP, Affordable Connectivity Program, that being taken away might be

    helpful to understand what's lacking.

         And the third, I'm going to call out somebody on this one, the

    third I want to highlight because we have had some conversation about

    it and we have had a group meeting away from our workgroup about it,

    and I learned a lot more, is the community food hub and accelerator.

    I learned a lot about this from Alison Miller.  I'm going to ask that

    if you become more interested in this topic, please sit down with

    Alison Miller and talk to her about it, because she's got a whole lot

    of knowledge about this subject.

         We live in a food desert.  We do.  The closest grocery store I

    can think of off the top of my head is Fry's.  Outside of that,

    people have to go all the way down to Oracle to get to Target or

    maybe all the way down to Walmart.  We don't have a grocery store

    where people can get fresh vegetables, fresh fruit, consistently in

    that area.

         There is food assistance, food businesses, culinary training

    programs, and again, you see the rest of the ideas we had for the

    area.  If we can have a conversation about this later, let's.  We'd





    love to sit down, and I'm sure we'd love to sit down and chat with

    you about this.

         Who's next?  Jeff?  Do you want me to try to move it to the next

    slide or... just the down arrow.  Sorry, Jeff.  You're on your own,

    buddy.

         (Applause.)

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:   So along with trying to figure out what

    some possible uses might look like that would benefit the college and

    the community, the other thing that the advisory group focused on was

    the board interest in, well, how could we fund development of this

    property with no college funds or with a minimal college investment

    but primarily private dollars.  So the real focus was on how can we

    attract funds from outside of Pima College that would fund the

    development of these properties.

         So the conversation of the workgroup turned to that the best

    alternative to do that was some type of public/private partnership.

    So let me just explain briefly kind of what that concept would look

    like, how we would go about trying to figure out some more specific

    proposals, approaches to do that.

         The idea in a public/private partnership is Pima College would

    continue to keep ownership of the land, we're talking it's about

    three acres, give or take, across the three different motel

    properties.  There would be a long-term lease of the land to a

    private developer, or could be more than one, depending on what the

    size of the projects would be, and that developer would arrange





    financing to pay for the construction of the building or buildings.

    They would perhaps lease part of it back to Pima.  We don't know what

    it would look like yet, but there might be sections of it that Pima

    would want to use, and then there would be sections that the private

    developer would lease out for other uses in order to make a return on

    their investment.

         So they would provide the initial capital to support the project,

    and then they have to have a way to make that money back presumably

    with some level of return on investment so that it would be an

    attractive project for the college.

         There are models of this with the University of Arizona, with

    ASU, so the other thing the group did was looked around and saw there

    are other higher education institutions and other public entities

    that have done similar projects as a way to use private capital to

    fund construction.

         Then the idea would be the developer pays for the buildings, they

    own the buildings, there would be a long-term lease, could be 30

    years or maybe even more, depends on what the return on investment is

    and the projected life span of the buildings.  At the end of the

    time, Pima would own the buildings.  So it's a way for the college to

    ultimately obtain a productive asset of considerable value.

         That sounds good, but how do we get there?  What we talked about

    in the committee, and I know Nina and I came and spoke to you at a

    study session a while ago, and we talked about something called an

    RFI, and in further conversation with the committee and doing some of





    the research, we decided there was a slightly better approach,

    probably an RFQ.  That's request for qualifications.  So let me

    explain what that would look like.

         So essentially we would assemble a document, and it's already

    mostly assembled, assuming the board chooses to go this direction.

    There's some additional work to do, but a lot of it is ready.

         Think of it as an investment prospectus.  So what it does is it

    explains here is the investment opportunity.  Here's where the

    property is, here's what's on it now, here is all the other

    investment and interesting activity going on in the area, right,

    because the City of Tucson has received a significant HUD grant

    that's going to be used to build some exciting new projects in the

    area.

         As Michael mentioned, there's a new transportation corridor

    that's going in.  So this document would put all of that together and

    provide links to that so a developer or interested person could see,

    oh, here's other things going on that are interesting, showing that

    there is significant development that would also complement what they

    are doing.

         Wrapped in that document is the work of the committee, which is

    here's our thoughts on what parameters a proposal should look like.

    This is kind of the ways we think you could effectively address the

    development opportunity.

         The primary focus of this part of the process, multi-phased

    process, the primary focus of this would be to have interested





    developers submit documentation that would show they are qualified to

    do this in a couple of respects.  One, they are qualified to do it

    because they would show examples of projects they have done that

    would have similar components in it to show, yeah, we understand and

    here are some ideas for what you could do, and that they have the

    capital and professional design and construction expertise or ability

    to get that talent so that they can successfully provide the type of

    development project that would benefit the neighborhood and the

    college.

         So we would send out this kind of prospectus document to a broad

    audience.  We would send it out to trade organizations, put it out

    across regional groups as far as we can so that we would get the

    maximum response.  There would be a selection process to see which

    ones of this group do we think are the most qualified developers, and

    then there would be a second phase where we would get the very

    specific proposal for exactly what kind of development would you put

    in there, how would you pay for it, what's the timing, and all the

    kind of more detailed things.

         The idea would be we are going to get this pool of qualified

    developers and have only those top firms provide proposals that the

    board can then consider and decide this is what we like, what we

    don't like, is that the direction for sure or not that the board

    wants to go.

         So just one aspect of that is sending out a request for

    qualifications does not commit the college to do any specific project





    or even any project at all, but it's a signal to the market, we have

    this opportunity, we'd like to do something productive with this

    property, essentially show us what you can do and how well qualified

    you are to do it, and then the board, we can get some more detail and

    come up with a specific project.

         Just rough, rough idea of timing.  I have been working with our

    director of procurement.  We think we can finalize the documentation

    and have something issued probably in about the next 30 days if the

    board says you have the green light to go ahead and do that.  We

    would probably have a 30- to 60-day window for qualified developers

    to submit documentation.

         On the one hand, we know we'd like to get an answer, but we need

    to leave enough time for someone to really study the prospectus,

    probably do their own research about what's going on in the area, and

    decide they are really interested and want to submit.  We would have

    a selection process, probably 30 to 45 days, to pick those qualified

    pool of developers.  We would share that information with the board.

         Then we would need hopefully probably about a 60-day process to

    have them submit proposals and actually pick, okay, this is the

    proposal that we like and want to go ahead with, assuming that there

    is one that the board decides is worthy to pursue.  There is going to

    be some negotiation about exactly what it's going to look like and

    what the documents look like.  That's another probably 60 days or so.

         Then there is the construction.  Just assuming, I'm not saying

    this is a recommendation or anything about what would happen, but





    let's say that the development project contained a mid-rise building,

    because in that area you can build multiple stories up to 75 feet,

    that's a pretty complicated building or buildings to design, so

    design and construction, you're talking probably 18 to 24 months.

         This is a pretty aggressive schedule.  It's doable, but I just

    want to sort of level-set expectations here.  From the time we really

    get going until the time there is a building, that could easily be

    two to three years.  Depends on the size of the project.  But just to

    give you a rough idea.

         (Applause.)

         >> NINA CORSON:  That concludes our presentation.  So if you have

    any questions for us, we are all here at your disposal.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Jeff, can we ask questions before we do the

    call to the audience?  Is that all right?

         So I have a question.  Can someone who is responding to an RFQ --

    because there are five properties, correct?  Pima has five

    properties?

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  So there is three identifiable properties,

    or at least that's the way we're describing them.  There's the Copper

    Cactus, the Frontier Inn, and the Tucson Inn, and we would send

    something that would say tell us what you're interested in to do

    something with all or part of it.

         So it's possible you could have two developers, and one is going

    to develop one acre, and one is going to develop the other two acres,

    or any permutation of that.





         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  So we also own those two properties to the

    west of the three hotel properties, don't we?

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  Yes, there are some additional properties.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  So technically, I mean, is it feasible, if

    someone is willing to do an amazing thing developing these

    properties, I mean, would we let them do all of our properties?

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  So that's a board decision.  So if the board

    were so inclined, we could certainly modify what we're thinking to

    indicate that there is a broader potential swath of land.

         Again, the advantage of an RFQ is the college is not committed to

    doing a particular project.  This is a way to really find out if

    there are, again, qualified developers with the expertise and the

    financial means to pull off the project.  So if that's of interest to

    the board, we could certainly modify the approach to explore that

    possibility as well.

         >> NINA CORSON:  I think right here is (off microphone).

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Then my next question is knowing the

    problems that we have had with construction in the past, I would

    assume it's going to be legal language that if they make this RFQ and

    they go forward with it, that there will be language that they have

    to finish construction, complete construction within a certain amount

    of time?

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  So one advantage of this process also is it

    really shifts all the risks connected with construction to the

    developer and off of the college.  They are going to act as the





    general contractor.  They are responsible for that.

         So, yes, it's part of why there is some time in this schedule for

    negotiation of documents.  If the board wants the college to proceed

    in this direction, we'll also bring in outside legal counsel and

    probably some design professional help so that we're getting advice

    on what needs to go in those agreements and getting help with all

    that to make sure we are protecting the interests of the college.

         >> MS. MARIA GARCIA:  So my question is, in voting for this

    project, that does not commit us to anything until the entire board

    decides that this is something we want to go forward with, but wanted

    to make sure that what we are looking for is funding, okay?  Because

    we don't have the money to spend on any of these projects.

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  So I think the group understood, had a

    really good understanding of what types of opportunities the board

    was looking for, and so under this approach, we could have proposals

    for projects where 100% of the funding is from a private developer.

    And yes to your first question -- that's a weird way to answer it.

    Yes to your first question:  No, we're not required to do a project.

         The idea with this is it really gives a way to very thoroughly

    test the private market to see what's possible.  That information

    goes to the board, and then you decide.  You could decide that you

    like, maybe there is more than one project that you like and more

    than one project would fit on the property and you pick that route.

    Another possibility is you pick one project.  Another possibility is

    you pick none of them.  You know what?  We are not happy with any of





    these proposals.  Okay.  Let's start over again and figure out what

    to do.

         So the authorization we are asking for and what we want to make

    sure the board is comfortable with is we'd like to pursue that

    opportunity and see what happens, and then we're going to come back

    to you with the results of all that so you can look at that, ask

    whatever questions you have, and then you can make a decision at that

    point in time that you like one or more of the proposals or you

    don't.  And then that's the board's decision about what happens at

    that point.

         So no, zero commitment, a way to really test the opportunities

    for privately funded construction.

         >> MS. MARIA GARCIA:  I understood it, but I just wanted to make

    sure that the audience understands it, as well, that we are not

    committed to any of this.  It all depends on what we are being

    offered and what we are going to have to look at.

         I want to take this time myself to thank all of you that have

    helped in working on this project.  I know the amount of time that it

    has taken you, and I admire your commitment.  On behalf of the board,

    please, we really appreciate your efforts.  Thank you.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Okay.  If there are no more comments, we'll

    go to call to the audience.

         First up, Dennis Just.

         >> Hello, board and everyone.  I am Dennis Just.  I'm an

    astronomer.  I teach astronomy and physics at the college.  I'm a





    part of the Drachman group.  But rather than talking about the formal

    kind of our charge and what we came up with, I just wanted to present

    my personal opinion about the general narrative related to these

    properties.

         So I can just say that I truly believe that this is most

    absolutely focused outward towards our community, that really focuses

    on students, the surrounding neighborhoods, and the businesses.

         Even though Mike and everyone had done a wonderful job, Mike had

    shown the parameters that we suggest for the property, and I'm just

    going to read these out.  To show how this is focused towards the

    community first and foremost, we are talking about a community health

    clinic, housing to serve the community, community hub/center,

    childcare facilities, recreation centers, uses for Pima Community

    College's Downtown Campus, a community food hub and accelerator,

    which is awesome, as well as retail local purveyors of casual and

    affordable food and beverage, office space, or any combination

    thereof.  That's a lot of verbatim coming from the parameters we came

    up with with our RFI.

         I think that absolutely puts the "community" in Pima Community

    College Downtown Campus, very clearly, literally from the text.  And

    I want to say personally I don't know if I have ever worked with a

    group as forward-thinking, considerate, and mindful of our local

    community as this one.  Our representatives from Tucson House and

    Bronx Park, they truly did an amazing job crystallizing our

    discussions and brainstorming sessions and bringing them into the





    core of the proposed uses that we came up with.

         As a community member myself who, for nine years, has been

    working to Downtown Campus to my office every day, I feel they really

    did a great job of capturing how this could work for our community.

         So I just want to say that I think while it might be tempting to

    think that something like adaptive reuse might be the primary concern

    of how to preserve these properties, which are pretty awesome with

    their historical value, I think putting the community's needs first

    and foremost while also very clearly stating that the adaptive reuse

    would be a desirable and very worthy outcome, I think that was the

    way to go and I'm very happy with how our group approached that.

         Thank you for your time.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Thank you, Dennis.

         (Applause.)

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Next up, Ken Scoville.

         >> Good evening, Chair Riel, members of the board, Chancellor.

    It's always interesting having a different perspective on things than

    maybe a lot of other people have.  It's always fascinating.

         I think where to start with this is I'm very supportive of this

    request for qualifications.  In fact, I've, over almost 40 years of

    being involved with preservation, been on a lot of different groups

    where that was an outcome of this.

         Typically on those, because they were highly motivated for the

    preservation, that I would advocate that maybe the developer would

    get extra points or some qualification if they did the extra effort





    to say how could we preserve some of these resources that are

    existing and incorporate into them, that would be one thing.

         When members of the team were talking about the community hub, if

    you look at those three buildings, and obviously I have looked at

    them quite a lot over the years, the center building, the Copper

    Cactus, or earlier the El Rancho, it has the best example of what we

    call the romanticized west architecture.  I would really see that as

    a community hub.

         I tried to always emphasize this with the group, it doesn't mean

    that you can't build new buildings there, so you could build a new

    building but try and save as much as possible the architecture and

    think about the smaller spaces and how those would be breakout

    sessions and whatever, that you're looking for smaller space.  Like

    if you wanted to have innovation centers, start-of-business centers

    where people in the community or students as they are graduating, how

    would I start my own business, they could use those smaller venues

    for their actual office for six months.  That would be just one of

    many situations.

         The Tucson Inn, given its history as a diner and all that, that

    just makes sense as the food hub, that that would be a nice

    connection.  I would think anybody that's in the food business, and

    you don't want, nothing against Popeyes' chicken, but I would hope

    you'd want something a little bit better than that in there with the

    food accelerator food venue.  Anybody that was doing that, having

    that sign as your catchall sign for your establishment, you couldn't





    put a dollar amount on that sign.  So that sign would be a great

    incentive to anybody looking at it from a development standpoint.

         And the Frontier property, given its proximity to The Tucson

    House, if El Rio Health Clinic was going to move in there and build a

    new building in the center of it and then having the smaller venue

    support staff and all that and some or all of the motel rooms in

    that, that's where you would get this kind of mixed use.  Obviously

    it's a new endeavor and new support, but the historic resources would

    still be there, meaningful.

         Just to close really quickly, historic places, why do we save

    these things?  You can read about the past.  That's one venue.  You

    can see pictures and look at maps.  But having traveled all across

    the United States, there is no better way to understand the past than

    the historic resources that still exist today.  Thank you.

         (Applause.)

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Thank you, Ken.  Next, Richard Hernandez.

         >> Thank you.  I live in Tucson.  I vote and I pay taxes.

    Interesting enough, I'm listening to you today, there was no one from

    Ward 5, the south side, on this committee.  If you live in South

    Tucson or anywhere in South Tucson, you know that I'm known as an

    educational and community advocate, and I completely disagree with

    this project.

         I have visited over a hundred homes in the last nine days in area

    [sic] code 85713, 85746, and 85706, and what is happening on the

    south side is we pay taxes to Pima College.  We are not happy that





    you keep incrementally moving them up so we can have this kind of a

    project.

         I'm old enough -- in case anybody's wondering, I'm almost 70 --

    to have been in The Tucson House for a quinceanera, for a wedding.  I

    have been part of Tucson for a very long time.

         Do you know that 50% of the students are Hispanic, Latino,

    Chicanos, Latinx?  This is who you're impacting when you raise fees,

    tuition fees, when you continue to raise our taxes.  This is not okay

    with us.

         Madam Chair, you have excluded us.  None of us on the south side

    have been part of this, and you directly know that I'm involved in a

    lot of activities on the south side.  We have had no say, but we are

    expected to pay.

         There are many options, but my first option is to tell this

    group, why don't you purchase this property?  Why don't you develop

    it any way you want to?  What I want you to do is give more money for

    scholarships.  What I want this group to realize is that we have a

    nursing shortage all across this country, Southern Arizona.  Give us

    $1 00,000 of your money.  Let's educate our youth to become nurses to

    serve this community.  That is more important than any of these

    events that I have listened to today.

         What is wrong with you when you don't realize that you have

    excluded, what, 50% of the students are Hispanic at Pima College?  By

    their own admission.  They say they are Hispanic; not because I say.

    I do know where we live, we were not invited to participate.





         I think you're wrong to do this.  If you were to go to us and ask

    us for another increase in taxes, you know we'd say no.  So what you

    do is incrementally you move it up so you don't have to ask us.  You

    keep doing that year after year.

         Our kids are paying for this.  Our students are paying for this

    so that this group can have whatever it is.  I'm not opposed to it,

    you purchase it, you develop it.  Do not use another tax dollar.  Do

    not use our money.

         Think about our students.  See that back there?  It doesn't say,

    you know, our community college, I own some of this -- it says

    "community college."  You forgot us.  You did not invite us.

         (Applause.)

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Thank you, Richard.

         Real quick question, Jeff.  So the proposal that we have before

    us is that we are looking for people to actually pay for these

    buildings and build these buildings, and we will lease our property

    to them.  Is that correct?

         >> MR. JEFF SILVYN:  Right.  So the idea with this approach is

    that we are not going to use public funds to pay for the

    construction.  It's going to be financed by private developers, the

    end result of which will be an asset that can benefit Pima either

    through direct use or we may be charging them a lease for the use of

    the ground and they're going to generate a profit through their

    commercial activities and actually generate revenue for the college.

         That's the idea, given the parameters that the board had set.  It





    is not to use the public tax dollars for this.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Okay.  Thank you.

         And then Jude Cook.

         >> Hi.  Thank you for letting me talk.  I'm with Cook & Company

    Signmakers and Ignite Sign Art Museum.  I restored four, five signs

    that are on the Pima College campus on Drachman.  I like

    preservation.  I'll give you credit.  This is a much better plan than

    we had six, eight months ago.  I applaud you for doing that.

         I would encourage you to put a stronger emphasis on adaptive

    reuse.  It has worked all over Tucson.  We have Riley Mortuary,

    Reilly Pizza, Pueblo Hotel, Aveda Hair Institute, we have Hotel

    McCoy, we have the Monterey Courts and entertainment district, we

    have the Ghost Ranch, which is affordable or assisted living.  There

    is four different blocks on Broadway that they are not tearing down

    the buildings.  We fought for that for almost three years, and they

    are at least maintaining the facades, but they're redeveloping those

    properties.  It's going to turn Broadway around out there.  I think

    that same thing can happen here.

         Just, I think you have to look at saving the buildings.  If you

    don't, you guys are in the guts of 05 down there, you tear down a big

    portion of what are historic buildings down there, you just blew it.

         And a little quote, "There is nothing so unique, unusual, or

    beautiful that it can't be torn down."

         Save these properties, you guys.  Thank you.

         (Applause.)





         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Next, Carlos Lozano.

         >> Thank you, Madam Chair, board members, Chancellor, for giving

    me the opportunity to speak.  And also the members, I wanted to thank

    the members of the working group.  I had prepared remarks, but

    everybody has pretty much said what I wanted to say.

         I'm really glad that you have an option in front of you that will

    do the right thing, and it will pay for it, so you don't have to

    spend money that you don't want to commit.

         If you, and I urge you to support the RFQ.  If you do, and I hope

    you do, I hope that you will give it long enough to work.  I think

    that submission period is much too short.  The buildings have sat

    empty for years.  I think you can take longer to find a developer,

    and I think you should go nationwide or maybe even globally on this.

         Everyone in the country loves Tucson.  If they find out that this

    is available, I think that it will be a great thing, and I think you

    should really go for the adaptive reuse option that has zero

    demolition as your goal.  I think that heritage and culture are just

    so important there, not even to mention the embodied carbon in these

    buildings.  I mean, demolition is unsustainable.  There is just no

    excuse for it in 2024.

         In 2024, there is really no excuse for expanding parking.  It's

    already been said how the transit is going to be blanketing Pima more

    than it is now.

         Anyway, I have said enough.  I think you guys know what you need

    to do.  Thanks again very much.





         (Applause.)

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  We have two people that signed up online.

    Kathy Cross, would you like to speak?

         Then Wayne Bobian (phonetic).

         So Makyla, would you mind me hanging on for your -- is there any

    more discussion from the board or can we call for a vote?

         >> DR. WADE McLEAN:  I'd like to make a few comments before the

    vote.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Okay.

         >> DR. WADE McLEAN:  In regard to responding to the e-mails that

    I have received over the last several days, upwards of 40, 50, 60,

    and some of the comments that were made tonight, I'd like everybody

    to know that when this purchase was originally done, I think it was

    in '17, it was a 3-2 vote.  Of the three people that voted, one lost

    in the next election, one decided not to run, and the other one

    resigned from the board.  So there is no one on this dais that voted

    to buy this property.

         I also asked staff to do a review of board votes on this issue.

    They cannot find any vote of the board that dictated what was going

    to happen to this property, whether it be reuse, parking lots, or

    anything else.

         I'd like to remind the audience that pursuant to state law, a

    board member cannot make a decision for the community college.  It

    has to be a majority vote in an open public meeting.

         So if somebody has said in the past on this dais that we were





    going to repurpose the property or we were going to sell the property

    or we were going to refurbish the property, that's not an accurate

    statement that would stand up against the statute.

         So what we are looking at tonight is a decision by this board to

    move forward on a decision that had been made by a previous board,

    none of which sit at this dais at this time.

         I'd also like you to know that at last month's meeting, this

    board voted to raise student tuition and all of our property taxes.

    The reason that we did this was to maintain class size to help ensure

    quality learning for our students.  We are trying to retain and

    recruit exceptional staff to maintain the quality of education that

    we offer the people of this community.  We're also trying to expand

    programs to help meet the workforce needs of the community.

         So we are an educational institution that does not have enough

    money right at this time to meet the needs of what we want to do

    without raising taxes and increasing tuition.

         There is three major funding sources that we work with:  Property

    taxes, tuition increases, and new enrollment.  Staff is working real

    hard at this point in time and have been since the pandemic to

    increase enrollments.  So that's one of our stated objectives.

         Pima College, since I have been around, and I'm third-generation

    Tucsonan, Anne Rysdale's daughter is my cousin, so we have been

    around a while.  Pima College has been a good neighbor in this

    community, and we will continue to attempt to be a good neighbor.

         So with that understanding, my vote on this proposal, with the





    thanks to the committee, will be a yes.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Is there a motion?

         >> MR. GREG TAYLOR:  I move to move forward with the RFQ as

    recommended.

         >> DR. WADE McLEAN:  Second.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  All in favor say aye?

         (Ayes.)

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Motion passes unanimously.

         Once again, committee, thank you so much again for all your work.

         (Applause.)

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Makyla, you're on.  Then we'll resume back

    at the beginning of our agenda to go through the normal bit.

         Thank you.

         >> MAKYLA HAYS:  My comment is going to seem all out of place,

    but hopefully it's a good one.

         In the spirit of employee recognition tonight, I thought it would

    be a good time to thank some of our administrators and our high-level

    staff for their demonstration of commitment to shared governance.  We

    have managed to accomplish quite a bit this year, and the willingness

    of these people to seek input and value that feedback has been a huge

    part of it.

         First I want to start out with a couple of people I work with

    often in the All Employee Representative Council.  Aubrey Conover,

    thanks for being a genuine person, open to hearing ideas and

    concerns, and willing to work towards solutions that benefit as many





    people as possible.  We couldn't have accomplished all we have

    through AERC without Aubrey's willingness to cooperate in his

    leadership style.

         I also want to thank Kate Schmidt for her drive for action

    tempered by willingness to listen to the people involved.

         AERC often works with other areas of the college, and Janet Rico

    Uhrig has been a great addition to the HR team.  She's come to

    meetings prepared, ready to listen and contribute, and I appreciate

    her openness to search for solutions.

         Tina Neil has also jumped in with both feet and been a great

    partner in several of our AERC projects.  I was immediately impressed

    with her rollout plan for the remote work arrangement procedure and

    have appreciated her partnership on several other policy discussions.

    So thank you both.

         Andrew Plucker in the employee service center has also been a

    great partner, helping us clarify definitions and processes and

    always being responsive to requests to meet.

         David Bea has the unenviable job of being in charge of all of our

    budget.  I want to thank you for your openness to hearing employee

    group priorities and willingness to take a look at the concerns we

    bring regarding the salary scales and the language guiding placement

    and movement within those scales.  Thank you for meeting with us and

    discussing how to best move forward with compensation.

         I appreciate leaders who reach out for input when creating new

    structures and are willing to take consideration and feedback of the





    employee group leaders and the AERC.

         I've found David Parker to be someone who is very willing to do

    so, and I appreciate the way he's proactively reached out to the

    appropriate groups to get input before we reach out to him.  Thanks,

    David.

         I want to thank Jim Craig for always being open to conversation

    and as a leader in the All College Council helping to establish lines

    of communication between the ACC and the AERC so that we can assure

    both groups are well informed.

         Outside the AERC, it's been wonderful to work with Brian Stewart

    on initiatives involving culture and how to be inclusive.  I

    appreciate that Brian is always ready to listen to employees and I

    was honored to be included in the All Faculty Day panel he hosted on

    inclusivity.

         Another administrator that's really been making efforts to be

    inclusive during some super-difficult projects has been Nina Corson.

    I have been impressed with the solutions explored for the Drachman

    properties, and I appreciate her openness to the faculty voices for

    the faculty leadership model.  We had a tight timeline, but there was

    good work coming from that group.

         Speaking of difficult decisions, I want to thank Michael Amick

    and Josie Milliken for their leadership in our online area over the

    last few months.  I've been really impressed with their efforts to

    make people feel seen and valued in the midst of uncertainty and

    change.  What you do matters, and your leadership style is





    appreciated.

         We talked about the value of shared governance at the board

    retreat in January, and I look forward to more conversations with the

    board in May.  Thank you for giving me the time to publicly

    appreciate these people who have made shared governance real in our

    institution.

         Thank you.

         (Applause.)

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  So I know we were applauding Makyla for her

    comments.  Let's also applaud all of those amazing people that work

    here at Pima College and make it the amazing place it is.

         Thank you, all.

         (Applause.)

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Marcy, thank you for being patient.  I

    didn't tell you that I was changing the whole schedule around, so

    thank you.

         >> MARCY EULER:  No problem whatsoever.  Thank you, Chairperson

    Riel, Board of Governors, Interim Chancellor.  I need to find how to

    undo this.

         Thank you.  You are my wingman.  He spends more time in my office

    than you care to know, because there is always something wrong.

    (Laughter.)

          There we go, from the current slide.  There we go.  All right.

    Thank you.

         Well, happy Community College Awareness Month.  April has that





    designation, so it seems appropriate that we are beginning April with

    a Governing Board meeting.

         As you know, I don't like to read my slides, and I always start

    with what Pima Foundation does.  We are the philanthropic partner to

    the college supporting the students, faculty, and programs that are

    important to both making the institution a strong one and supporting

    the economic vitality of our region.

         A few things that have happened recently.  We hosted the National

    Association for Community College Entrepreneurship fund/SHIFT Summit

    at PCC's Downtown Campus last month.  Here's some photographs of

    different speakers.

         I wanted to thank a number of people who made that happen.  The

    Downtown Campus people who run facilities and the classrooms and

    things were amazing.  The Pima Police Department were incredible.

    They helped make sure we got out of the elevator in advanced

    manufacturing when we got locked upstairs.

         We had presenters and attendees.  Dolores and Ian and Nina were

    part of the welcome to the event.  Sue Oliver, Lydia Kennedy were

    both speakers.  Greg Taylor unfortunately has left.  He was on a

    panel that we did with donors to the Foundation.  Vivian Knight from

    Jim's team was also a participant.  My team from the Foundation were

    an integral part in making that happen.

         We recently did a tour of the center of excellence in applied

    technology.  Our board has moved to all virtual meetings, and they

    want to do live tours that are longer than just 30 minutes.  So this





    was our first foray into that environment, looking at advanced

    manufacturing, the science and technology building, and automotive

    facility.

         So Carmen, you can see her down in the bottom right leading the

    tour for about 15 people from across the community.  We are doing our

    next one on April 30th at East Campus to look at the cyber and IT,

    EMT, vet tech, and the other programs that are offered at East

    Campus.  If you are interested, you're certainly welcome to join us.

         Some things that we also did that I don't have photographs for,

    you heard I was on the Drachman properties committee.  Learned a lot.

    Some really great thinking and conversation around that.

         We are working on a strategic plan for the Foundation.  You all

    will have an opportunity to participate should you so choose.  I also

    sit on the strategic planning committee for the college, and I want

    to commend Nic Richmond.  The last meeting we had there were ten

    students who participated in the different small groups.  I think

    you're one of them, right?

         So one of the things that we did was we have certificates that we

    award to students that they can use for any cost of education.  We

    were just going to do one, but because we had ten students, and they

    gave really great information to the committee, we gave all of them

    one of those to help with tuition or to help with any cost of

    education for summer or fall.

         I'm not going to read the rest of this, but you can see some of

    the things we have been doing and then what's coming up.





         Thanks to Edgar Soto, on Saturday, April 13, there will be a Pima

    Community College Night at the Roadrunners.  They have tickets

    available online, and I think we are going to have those on our

    website if they're not already there.  We will have a small portion

    devoted back to the Foundation.  They are also auctioning off two

    Roadrunners jerseys that we will get the proceeds from.  That was in

    our little eBlast that we sent today.

         Signing Day, we're involved with that, and the Focus on Your

    Future activity, we have helped develop sponsorships for that.  I

    mentioned our tour of East Campus.  We are working with SandScript,

    working with EGTSS.  We just learned today that the fashion show is

    back on on Saturday, May 18.

         I was invited to speak at commencement, which we always look

    forward to.  We give an alumni pin to all of the students who walk

    across the stage.  I have talked to you about the Rotary Car Show.

         We just began an opportunity to partner with El Tour to do

    fundraising for the Foundation through people who choose to ride or

    run.  We will get more information to you about that.

         Here is our quick snapshot of our money.  As of the end of March

    we are close to 16 million with 19.15 million in endowed funds.  We

    have given out over $460,000 in scholarships, including what we gave

    out in spring.  We have spent almost 900,000 on program support and

    anticipate spending quite a bit more before the end of the fiscal

    year.

         Our staff has changed a tiny bit.  As of last Friday, Lance Jones





    has chosen to pursue other career interests, and so Diana Cannon has

    been elevated to our director of transformational philanthropy.  And

    we are searching for a bookkeeper/administrative assistant.  Jennifer

    Vandivort is actually planning to move out of the role she has held

    with us, so we are currently searching for that job.

         Here is how to contact us.  I just wanted to share one other

    thing.  On Monday, which was April Fool's Day -- I'm assuming, Phil,

    it wasn't an April Fool's joke, okay -- we got an update on our

    legislative action around the license plates.

         So Senate Bill 1190 passed the third read in the house on April

    1st.  45 yeses, 4 nos, 10 didn't vote.  It was passed with an

    amendment to move down from 9,000 full-time equivalents to 500

    full-time equivalents that would allow the other community colleges

    in the state to also participate if they so chose.  So there was

    interest from the other institutions, and we wanted to make sure that

    that would be something that would be open to them.

         However, there is a $32,000 charge in order to participate in

    that, and that is something that my board has approved.  The

    Foundation would not get the money.  It would go to the scholarship

    office for students who are need-based eligible, and it is something

    that we would love to be able to support.

         So it will return to the senate for approval soon.  I don't know

    when.  I don't have that timeline.  Hopefully we will have good news

    to share about that in May.

         Any questions?  Okay.  Thank you.





         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Thanks, Marcy.

         Oh, Luis Gonzales has a question for you.

         >> MR. LUIS GONZALES:  Well, congratulations on the license

    plate.  I think it's not only an investment, 32,000, but I think it's

    going to be self-generating, as well, too.  I think that's what the

    people need to know once they provide and buy the plates.

         I said it before and will continue to say, we are the only public

    community college here in Southern Arizona.  I think we have a lot of

    our people that are going to be interested.  But it's going to be

    self-generating.

         >> MARCY EULER:  I hope so.  Thank you.  That's what we hope.

    People texted me when I've talked about it here and say, I'll buy

    one, I'll buy one.

         My understanding is it's the next, once it's approved, getting

    the actual design approved is harder than the legislative action, so

    we'll keep our fingers crossed that that doesn't hold true (smiling).

         >> MR. LUIS GONZALES:  Sounds good.  Thank you.

         >> MARCY EULER:  Anyone else?  All right.  Thank you.  Have a

    good evening.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Moving on to section 1.9, summary of

    current events by board members.

         Mr. Gonzales, you want to go first?

         >> MR. LUIS GONZALES:  Current events, the only current events I

    have is the last time when we met at the DoubleTree Inn.  It was a

    group of us that went.  I think the round tables were excellent, but





    more important, I was very amazed in reference to the young people

    that were there from Sunnyside and from the others within TUSD.

         That's very minimal in reference to what I have to share.  I just

    want to share that in my behalf in reference to other stuff that's

    been happening, we just ended the our Lenten ceremonies that the

    majority of our people are real active.  In fact, coming back to

    what's displayed here in shared reference to investment, just want to

    share with the public that our tribal ceremonies are very strong and

    very -- we have a lot of faith in it, so much faith that we close the

    casinos.  We have two casinos that we close.

         But I think not only the hundreds or thousands but millions of

    dollars that we do not receive, it will come back somehow to the

    people, as well, too.  I think the belief and the faith of the

    people, of the Pascua Yaqui that are here, that investment to provide

    to the community but also to all the employees, I think we have

    almost two thousand or maybe more employees that are given those days

    off.  I think it's a great commitment from the tribe but more

    important to the community.

         I think it brings the community together to do their devotions,

    their commitments, the things that we have within the communities,

    from the Phoenix area to here but also the people that are in other

    states, in California, as well, too.

         I just wanted to share that we honestly believe, even though we

    lose hundreds and thousands, but more importantly, millions of

    dollars, I think it's a worthy investment to provide to the community





    those days off.  I think that's a commitment that I would sit there

    with the executives, as well, not the executive as a board member,

    but a strong belief that the faith brings us back together.  And that

    is part of the Pascua tribe, which "Pascua," if you do not know, it

    means Easter.  We are more or less considered the Easter tribe, as

    well, too.

         Those are just very minimal information I want to share, but I do

    know that it's important to us and will continue to be important as

    education is for us, as well, too.  Thank you.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Thank you.  Maria Garcia?

         >> MS. MARIA GARCIA:  Well, again, thanks for the people that

    supported, that worked on the committee for the properties.

         So this past week I attended a conference in Boston.  It was the

    AGB conference, and so I just want to share with you some of the

    things that I came out with.

         The conferences are a means to train us and to give us ideas from

    other organizations, other colleges.  They share experiences with us.

    One of the things that they shared, one of the sessions I attended

    was avoiding a failed presidency.

         What I came out with on that is that you don't want a president

    that is arrogant.  That, in itself, is probably a detriment to

    picking a president for a college.  Then the two important values

    that I came out with was that they have to add ethics, strong ethic

    values.  And that is difficult to determine when interviewing.  But

    I'm stating that so that the people on the committee are aware of





    that.  Then the most important thing was cultural understanding of

    the community, that the president should have that.

         Then the other one that I attended was a changing presidency.

    Chancellor's terms are a lot shorter, and we have to do a lot of

    work.  So for me, it's like this is the first time in selecting a

    chancellor.  I'm looking forward to the committee's recommendation

    and the students and faculty in helping us with this endeavor,

    because as a college, I love this community and I love this college,

    and I want what's best for it, as we all do.

         Thank you.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Thank you.  Dr. Wade McLean?

         >> DR. WADE McLEAN:  I'd like to congratulate the college's men's

    and women's basketball teams for the great season they have had this

    year and the run that they had in the playoffs, and wish Jim Monaco

    all the best in his retirement.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Lots has gone on the last month, but it's

    blanked out of my mind right now.  The one thing, I went to the East

    Campus today to celebrate Mabel Ersch, retiring after 30 years of

    being the librarian at the East Campus.

         It was like going-home week, because that's where I taught for 23

    years, and it was so nice seeing a lot of the old retirees were there

    and a lot of new people that I got to meet.

         That's one thing I realized about Pima Community College.  It

    really is a community and a family.  Thank you for all of you who

    make those kind of things happen at your own campuses.  I think





    having that community and that connection makes Pima not just a place

    to work and teach and, you know, do the job, but also to have great

    friendships and great -- you know, it's a great family.  So thank you

    for all of you.

         Okay.  Moving on to our administrative reports.  Dr. Irene

    Robles-Lopez, is she going to do the chancellor's update?

         >> DR. IRENE ROBLES-LOPEZ:  Yes, Madam Chair.  I am here online.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Oh, perfect.  Thank you.

         >> DR. IRENE ROBLES-LOPEZ:  I'm not sure if our IT folks are able

    to bring the slide I put together with the update?

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Yes, we will bring it up.

         >> DR. IRENE ROBLES-LOPEZ:  Okay.  Great.  Thank you.

         I'll go ahead and get started.  I know that we have quite a few

    things or reports to still go through.  Good evening, Board Chair

    Riel, members of the board, Interim Chancellor Duran-Cerda,

    colleagues and guests.

         Thank you all for this opportunity to provide an update on the

    work that we have been doing on Chancellor Goal 3, enhancing a

    culture of care.

         On the slide, I don't see it, but I'm hoping that it is up, you

    will see the different activities that we have been engaged in.

         If you could please move to the next slide, please.  Thank you.

         So you will see the activities that we have been engaged in with

    the college community to really try to foster feedback from our

    community, and I also want to thank the board members, I do believe





    some of you attended some of the listening sessions.  I did get to

    see some of you folks in there.  Thank you so much for that.

         So those were held in the month of March.  Then just at the

    beginning of this week on Monday, the College Employee Satisfaction

    Survey was opened and did go out to the college community, so it will

    remain open for the rest of this month, close on the 29th, so we are

    definitely encouraging employees to fill this out.

         The interim chancellor has also encouraged us as we have team

    meetings to possibly set aside time within the team meetings to have

    employees go through it, give them time to make sure that they are

    able to participate, and provide that feedback to us, because that's

    something, using this tool, is something that's very important that

    will help us gather vital information as we plan and as we move

    forward.

         I don't know if any of our board members have any questions.

    There was additional information as well on the executive summary,

    but I'm more than happy to answer any questions that you may have.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Thank you.  We do not have any questions.

         >> DR. IRENE ROBLES-LOPEZ:  Thank you so much.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Thank you.  Next up is our chancellor's

    goal update with Dr. David Bea.

         >> DR. DAVID BEA:  Good evening, Chairperson Riel, members of the

    board, Chancellor Duran-Cerda, colleagues and guests.  I can be

    really quick tonight.  I provided an executive summary to the board,

    and as you know, we have talked at length the last few meetings, and





    I have given updates on the chancellor's goals.

         It will be a big meeting in May when we get into finalizing the

    budget, but we are working on the parameters and working with the

    employee groups on some of the salary recommendation priorities,

    which you heard from Makyla Hays a little bit earlier.

         If there are any questions, I'm happy to answer.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Thank you.

         >> DR. DAVID BEA:  All right.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Next report, diversity, equity, and

    inclusion update, Brian Stewart.  Thank you.

         >> BRIAN STEWART:  Thank you, Chairperson Riel, members of the

    board -- let's see if I can get this up here, all right --

    Chancellor, colleagues and guests, I'm really excited to give you

    some updates around diversity, equity, and inclusion of the college.

    You have a not exhaustive summary in your packet, but there is a lot

    more I could talk about, but a few really exciting highlights I want

    to focus on for you.

         One, if you recall, we are integrating the DEI plan into the

    strategic plan.  So this intermediate area, there are four goals we

    are looking at, so some highlights from those four goals that we're

    doing until it's fully integrated into the new strategic plan system.

    The first one is that integrated process.  It's moving it over into

    that area.

         We have a social justice team that is looking at definitions of

    social justice, DEI, providing recommendations to the strategic plan





    group on how we will make sure that is embedded not just in the next

    plan but all the plans after that.

         So all of that work is being led by Dr. Nic Richmond with me.

    That will be coming out, I believe in the summer we will be providing

    that information out to you.

         Next item is in our campus climate and culture.  Excelencia in

    Education is an amazing opportunity.  It's a wonderful group of

    individuals who are really looking at how Hispanic-Serving

    Institutions move from a numerical value of what Hispanic serving is

    to servingness.  The idea of servingness is really embedding

    intentionality, data, and impact into what we are doing.

         So we have a series of Town Halls that are coming up, actually

    have the dates now for you.  The information was e-mailed out, but I

    will just say them out so people know them.  April 4th, tomorrow, we

    have one 2:00 to 3:00 that is virtual.  April 9th from 5:30 to 6:30,

    virtual.  And then April 11th for those people who want in-person at

    Downtown in the Amethyst Room from 10:00 to 11:30, we will be hosting

    an in-person Town Hall.

         Those Town Halls are to gather information about what we may

    already be doing that is really impactful and some ideas on where we

    need to be going, and I really want to appreciate Dr. Vanessa

    Arellano for her leadership in this area around his work that we are

    doing.

         Another area in his we are focusing on, we have an amazing

    program.  I don't know if you talked to the co-legal program that we





    have.  It is brand new.  It's just about a year old, and it is

    working with immigrants, refugees, our DACA and undocumented

    students, and it provides legal advice on the areas of how to move

    through those systems.

         They asked for an opportunity to present at HACU in Spain, and

    they received approval.  So they are going in June out to Spain to be

    able to do a presentation on this, faculty, staff, and students.

    It's a really exciting opportunity for all of them, and I'm looking

    forward to see what they bring back to us from that event.

         Employee development, this was a big area for us.  Tina Neil,

    when she was over in that area, did some amazing work as well as the

    teaching learning center on getting a whole bunch of new programming

    up around cultural competency, some of the things that Maria just

    mentioned regarding what presidents should be around cultural ideas.

         Also, we have been doing work on pronoun and identity.  There is

    a whole series of sessions on that.  In particular, in scholarly work

    and academic writing, we are trying to move to gender-neutral

    (indiscernible).  So that information is now up.  That's my last

    update.  It's now up on our web page.

         One of the big institutional moves we have been doing is trying

    to bring all of the stuff we do in the institution around DEI into

    one focal space.  All that stuff still happens, but we are trying to

    get it all together.  We have a brand new web page.  The web team has

    been amazing at just doing live updates.  So anything we do, we can

    go to them immediately, they do an immediate live update, there's a





    whole series of information on pronoun use, identity work, the

    information on holidays, religious practice, anything you can think

    of we are putting up there and available to you.  I recommend you go

    to the diversity page for information on that.

         Other than that, I'm available for questions.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Great.  Thank you.

         >> BRIAN STEWART:  Thank you very much.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Then the last report for these

    administrative reports, an HLC update with Michael Parker.

         >> MICHAEL PARKER:  Good evening, everyone.  I don't know if it's

    worth my while.  I've got a single slide here, so I could just tell

    you what I'm going to say and then be right back up there.

         So we submitted a draft, this is Criterion 5, submitted a draft I

    think October 31st, got very favorable feedback from the consultant,

    and I think that's quoted verbatim in something that you have there.

         We put it out for public comment, got two or three corrections,

    we made those, and now the draft is in the very capable hands of our

    editor, Elliot Mead, who is ensuring that all of the sections of the

    assurance argument read with a coherent, unified voice.

         That's where we are at.  We are very confident we've got good

    evidence, and that's where things stand.

         Do you have any questions?

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  No, but thanks again to all of the people

    working on the drafts.  We really appreciate it.  It's our No. 1

    imperative to get that reauthorization.  So thank you.





         >> MICHAEL PARKER:  Thank you.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Now reports by representatives to the

    board.  Our student report from Rebecca Ursule.

         >> REBECCA URSULE:  Good evening, Chairperson, Chancellor, board

    members, faculty and staff.  I'm so sorry about my voice.  I have

    some issue with my voice, but I'm going to try my best.

         I'm going to present the student's report, and I will only be

    talking about the highlights.  First and foremost, we attended the

    leadership conference in Atlanta, Georgia.  This conference equipped

    us with skills and knowledge and communication, strategic planning.

    And we also had a very good time in Atlanta as a group, and we really

    learned a lot.  Most of the things were to deal with our internal

    structure of Student Senate, and I think we are going to work on that

    in Student Senate.

         We also had a successful Town Hall meeting with all of the Pima

    campus vice presidents present and other leadership teams.  We extend

    our appreciation to them for attending our Town Hall meeting.  It was

    a very good session.

         Student Senate are having a project and we are working on to meet

    our 500 US dollars doing a goal to offer a scholarship drawing to a

    PCC student who attends the fall 2024 scholarship fair hosted by

    financial aid, and we thank the Pima Foundation for their support.

    We also participated in tabling events to engage peers and promote

    our initiatives.

         Aster Schaefer, the Downtown senator, has volunteered to join the





    risk management ethics and compliance short-term task force committee

    led by David Parker.

         Thank you so much.  That's the end of our report.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Thank you.

         Moving on to the adjunct faculty report, Sean Mendoza.

         >> SEAN MENDOZA:  Good evening, Chairwoman Riel, Interim

    Chancellor Duran-Cerda, members of the board, and honored guests.

    Since my last report to the board, the adjunct faculty have not had

    an opportunity to meet, so my report will be a little bit shorter

    than usual.  Here are a few topics we will be discussing in the next

    meeting.

         This Friday we are excited to meet with members of the college

    administration to discuss marketing strategies with the vice

    chancellor of external relations, Phil Burdick.  We'll also receive a

    quick overview of the College Employee Satisfaction Survey with

    director of institutional analytics, Hector (indiscernible).

         As a group, we will also be discussing the training available to

    adjunct faculty and how we can expand engagement within our diverse

    employee group.  If you're interested in participating, feel free to

    join us this Friday at 10:00 a.m.  the link can be found in tonight's

    packet.  Otherwise I look forward to sharing my key takeaways at the

    next board meeting.

         Thank you for your continued support and this ends my report.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Thank you.

         Our next report, the staff report, from -- sorry.  I see no





    report written right by her name.  Faculty report by Rita Lennon.

         >> RITA LENNON:  Good evening.  Similar to our adjunct faculty

    group, we have not yet met.  We meet again on Friday, April 5.  My

    report to you will also be very brief.  My apologies for not being

    there with you this evening.

         When we meet on Friday, we plan to talk more about and answer

    questions about the faculty leadership model.  We also will hear from

    the committee who has been working on AP 3.01.01, which is the

    faculty qualifications.

         As you may recall, we had an opportunity to briefly discuss board

    members' access to our Learning Management System, D2L Brightspace.

    I'm pleased to provide you with an update.

         On Friday, March 29, Josie Milliken, the dean of distance

    education, and Michael Amick, the vice president of distance

    education, and I met to outline the objectives and logistics

    surrounding this request.

         We have identified a good plan going forward and would like to

    find a time to meet with board members, preferably in person, to

    guide you through the system and to give you a student's perspective

    about an online learning experience.  If we can find some time to

    meet in person, that would be wonderful.

         That concludes my report.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Did you want to meet with us individually?

    Because if we meet all together, we have to announce it as an open

    public meeting.





         >> RITA LENNON:  I believe that that was the plan was to meet all

    together, but individual works, as well.  I do believe that all three

    of us agreed that before the end of semester would be ideal.  Should

    it need to go into the summer, we can also do that.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  We will ask Andrea to look at our schedules

    and figure out a time when we can all meet.  Thank you so much for

    doing that.

         >> RITA LENNON:  Thank you.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Our next report is our administrative

    report by Jim Craig.

         >> JIM CRAIG:  Chairperson Riel, distinguished board, Chancellor

    Duran-Cerda, Pima Community College family and friends.

         I have a list of wonderful things going on with outcomes and

    hosting two summits in one month and other items I will let you read.

         I'd like to spend a few minutes tonight talking about an issue

    that we brought up in All College Council.  That issue has to do with

    cybersecurity and cybersecurity readiness for the college.

         Our chief information officer, Isaac Abbs, came to the meeting

    and described an issue that we have as a college in terms of

    cybersecurity readiness and training.

         His team has released a security program called NINJIO, which is

    an e-mail-driven training sent to all employees.  It's a very simple

    training.  It takes about five minutes for each segment.  It's hosted

    by famous actors and actresses, so it's kind of fun.  It really

    covers some of the current topics and problems and ongoing threats





    and attacks that come across each and every one of us as employees.

         Cybersecurity awareness and preparedness is only as good as your

    weakest link, and so one of the issues is we don't have enough

    employees completing that training.  Their percentages aren't high

    enough to even qualify for some of the requirements we have for our

    insurance.

         So we really need to look at that as a college, take some

    proactive steps to improve those completion rates, and make sure that

    all of our employees are aware of the importance of that kind of

    training and really embrace it as a culture.

         Each of the constituents in the committee are taking it back to

    Staff Council and Faculty Senate and Academic Affairs to really try

    to reinforce that message and help Isaac and his District IT team to

    make that completion a lot closer to 100%.

         That concludes my report.  Thank you.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Thank you.  And now one I normally skip

    over but I don't mean to, and I see it today, is Dr. Dolores

    Duran-Cerda with her interim chancellor's report.

         >> DR. DOLORES DURAN-CERDA:  Thank you, Board Chair.  Happy

    Community College Month.  April is the month to celebrate community

    colleges.  I'd also like to congratulate all of our honorees at the

    beginning of the board meeting, our employees, and our students who

    really achieved wonderful things throughout the year.  I just want to

    reiterate that congratulations to them.

         Also, I'd like to congratulate Nina Corson and Jeff Silvyn for





    leading the Drachman properties workgroup.  That, I know, was very

    intense, meticulous, and very collaborative, and you set that tone.

    I think we ended up with excellent results and things to really look

    forward to.  Thank you for that.

         I have done two more Chats With the Interim Chancellor, one at

    Desert Vista Campus and one at the East Campus, and what I do is I

    meet with faculty and staff and ask them three questions.  One is

    what is working well at the college, what can we improve upon, and

    what are some innovative ideas.  The third question is any questions,

    comments, or concerns.

         I have had excellent conversations with faculty and staff about

    what's going well, what they're proud of, and then creative ideas,

    what we can do to improve upon things.

         What I do is right after those meetings I meet with the campus

    vice presidents, and I tell them exactly what was discussed if it's

    something related to their particular campus, and if not, if it's

    something at a different unit that I need to talk to, I will.  So I

    follow up on the feedback that I receive from faculty and staff.

         As Marcy mentioned, I participated in the National Association

    for Community College Entrepreneurship.  I think it was the first

    time it was held at Pima College, and people from all over the

    country came.  It was spectacular.  I'm very grateful, Marcy, for you

    helping and leading that effort.

         As Board Member Garcia mentioned, we went to the AGB conference,

    which stands for Association of Governing Boards conference.  Some





    statistics or data I wanted to share with you about critical

    workforce gaps and how we are a part of the solution of this,

    community colleges, and specifically Pima.

         Just a few items to share with you.  Worldwide, there are 4

    million jobs that need to be filled in cybersecurity, worldwide.

         There is 1 million gaps in engineers in the U.S. by 2030.  So we

    need to fill those.  There's a need for 450,000 nurses in the United

    States, and we have been talking about our center of excellence in

    the health professions and how that's going to be helping in Southern

    Arizona.

         There is 200,000 teachers with shortages in all 50 states.  Then

    3 million current overall workforce gaps in the United States.

         So Pima Community College is ready to take ahold of that and help

    with the shortages and the critical workforce gaps.

         Some other pieces that I learned is that, I think we have heard

    this one before, 36 million adults have some college, no degree.

    Tech skills change every three to five years.  So we have to, we, as

    faculty, staff, administrators, need to prepare for our students who

    are expecting that.

         Then just a question for all of you, the attention span for

    students.  Do you know what the average, how many minutes is it?  You

    can shout it out or show me your fingers.  Five, two, three?

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  13.

         >> DR. DOLORES DURAN-CERDA:   13?  20?  No.  Seven minutes.

    Seven minutes is the average attention span for students.  So we have





    to keep things going, right?

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Board members?  (Laughter.)

         >> DR. DOLORES DURAN-CERDA:  Yes.  (Laughter.)

         Anyway, just wanted to share some fun facts with you.  Then I

    will end with this.  Yesterday, two wonderful events at the Downtown

    Campus.  One was the Climate Injustice Education Week launch.  That

    was fantastic.

         We had community members, faculty, staff, and administrators

    looking at climate change in our action plan for sustainability.

    Then also, we had the superintendents' luncheon also at the Downtown

    Campus where we had superintendents and assistant superintendents.

    Our board chair and vice-chair were in attendance as well, many of

    you here.

         It was excellent in the sense that we had, at the beginning, a

    little mini Futures Conference where we asked questions.  It was

    actually Dr. Nic Richmond who asked questions similar to what I have

    been asking to faculty and staff, what's going well, what do we need

    to improve upon.  And they were very honest about their insights and

    what we need to do to improve with our relationships and our

    partnerships with high schools, middle schools, K-12, basically.

         Then the deans gave overviews of their programs so they would be

    educated and understand what the centers of excellence offer and what

    we have to offer at the college.

         With that, that ends my report.  Thank you.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Thank you.





         There are lots of information in the information items.  I just

    want to mention something about 3.9, All College Council meeting.

    When I read through those minutes, they were a little concerned that

    when we had our shared governance retreat that we didn't include a

    certain group of people.  We tried our best to make sure that all the

    different areas at the college were participating there.

         That's not the only one we are going to have.  We are having one

    at the beginning of next month.  We will continue to do these as the

    years go on.  But Jim Craig was there, our shared governance meeting,

    and he is a dean.  So whoever was concerned about that, we did have

    at least one dean, but we will make sure that we are more concerned

    about having everybody there.

         Okay.  Lastly, moving on to our consent agenda, do I have a

    motion to move the consent agenda?

         >> DR. WADE McLEAN:  I move we approve the consent agenda as

    presented.

         >> MS. MARIA GARCIA:  Second.

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  All in favor say aye?

         (Ayes.)

         >> MS. THERESA RIEL:  Motion passes unanimously.

         We are done for tonight.  Thank you again for coming and

    participating in this event.

         (Adjournment.)





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