Executive Committee Meeting

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING – APPROVED MINUTES January 5, 2012

MINUTES

LOUISIANA COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM BOARD OF SUPERVISORS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2012 4:00 P.M.

Louisiana Community & Technical College System Office 265 South Foster Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70806 ~ 2nd Floor Conference Room ~

** The Board of Supervisors of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System reserves the right to enter into Executive Session in accordance with R.S. 42.6.

A. CALL TO ORDER

Board Chair, Vincent St. Blanc, III, called the Executive Committee meeting to order at 4:18 p.m.

B. ROLL CALL

Bonni Blouin, Coordinator of Board Services, called roll and a quorum was determined. The following Executive Committee members were in attendance:

Michael Murphy, 1st Vice Chair Woody Ogé, 2nd Vice Chair (via teleconference) Vincent St. Blanc, III, Chair Stevie Smith, Immediate Past Chair

Other LCTCS Board members present for the meeting:

Deni Grissette Stevie Toups

LCTCS staff present for the meeting:

Bonni Blouin Dr. Joe May Dr. Monty Sullivan

Chair St. Blanc stated that Supervisor Grissette and Toups will be allowed to vote on actions presented during the Executive Committee meeting. Supervisor Ogé will be allowed to participate in the meeting via teleconference but will not be allowed to vote on any agenda items.

Chair St. Blanc presented the agenda items for consideration of the Executive Committee.

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C. CONSIDERATION OF THE REPORT FOR SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS 61, 73, 88 AND 98 OF THE 2011 REGULAR LEGISLATIVE SESSION

Dr. May presented the staff recommendation that the Board accept the report, “Assessment of the Technical and Two-Year Postsecondary Education Needs In Selected Regions of Louisiana – Responses to Student Resolutions Offered by Members of the Louisiana State Legislature, Regular Session 2011, Numbers SCR 61, SCR 88, HCR 182, SR 98 and SCR 73”, prepared by FutureWorks for the Louisiana Board of Regents, in fulfillment of the requirements of the respective resolutions and further authorize the System President to make any non- substantive edits that may be necessary prior to formal communication of the report to the Legislature as specified by the respective resolutions.

Dr. May commented that the report includes the two mergers that the LCTCS is proposing and will be running legislation on this session to merge Louisiana Delta Community College with Northwest Technical College and the South Louisiana Community College with Acadiana Technical College in Lafayette. He added that the report also included study resolutions related to Northwest Technical Community College, Bossier Parish Community College, Fletcher Technical Community College and Central Louisiana Technical College and a mention of River Parishes Community College. He stated that the constitution requires the Board of Regents adopt a study in order to merge institutions.

On motion of Supervisor Murphy, seconded by Supervisor Toups, the Executive Committee voted to accept the report (“Assessment of the Technical and Two- Year Postsecondary Education Needs In Selected Regions of Louisiana – Responses to Student Resolutions Offered by Members of the Louisiana State Legislature, Regular Session 2011, Numbers SCR 61, SCR 88, HCR 182, SR 98 and SCR 73”), in fulfillment of the requirements of the respective resolutions and further authorize the System President to make any non-substantive edits that may be necessary prior to formal communication of the report to the Legislature as specified by the respective resolutions. The motion carried.

D. CONSIDERATION OF THE REPORT IN FULFILLMENT OF ACT 419 OF THE 2011 REGULAR LEGISLATIVE SESSION

Dr. May stated that Act 419 authorized the transfer of the University of New Orleans from the Board of Supervisors of the Louisiana State University System to the Board of Supervisors of the University of Louisiana System. In addition to this primary point, the Act also required the Board of Regents develop a comprehensive plan for postsecondary education delivery for the New Orleans region. He stated that the bill states that the Board of Regents shall adopt a written plan of action by February 1, 2012, and requires all higher education boards to adopt the plan. He added that a draft of the report has been received.

Dr. May stated that Debbie Lee, Interim Chancellor, Delgado Community College, Joe King, Dr. Foss, President, University of New Orleans have been meeting and working to develop a comprehensive plan by using the Fletcher/Nichols, Northshore/Southeastern agreements as the model.

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Dr. May stated that Ron Mason received a grant from Entergy and hired Eman Kelly (former president of Tulane University) to conduct the study. The study was conducted and the report completed.

Dr. May stated that the February 1st deadline would not be met and he has requested and received approval from Conrad Appel to delay the acceptance of the report until March 1st; however, a letter must be submitted by the February 1, 2012 date. Dr. May asked that he be allowed to work with the other systems to complete the report and submit it to the Legislature with the Board’s approval/adoption. He assured the Board that the report will be in the best interest of Delgado and the New Orlean’s community and he will share the report with the Board at the next regular board meeting in Feburary, 2012.

Supervisor Smith questioned the viability of adopting a report that the committee has not had an opportunity to review.

Dr. May responded that the report must be adopted in order to send a letter to Mr. Appel requesting a delay to accept the report until March 1st. He stated that he met today with Bob Levy, Jim Purcell, Ron Mason and Randy Moffitt to discuss the framework on how to proceed. He added that once the report is complete he will share it with the Board, but the requirements of the law indicates that the report be adopted, even though the report is not complete. He added that the final version of the report will be presented at the February 2011 board meeting for adoption.

Dr. May presented the staff recommendation that the Board authorize the System President to fulfill the requirements of the Act in conjunction with the Commissioner of Higher Education, other system heads, and all relevant stakeholders to develop a plan for the requirements of Act 419 of the 2011 Regular Legislative Session.

On motion of Supervisor Toups, seconded by Supervisor Murphy, the Executive Committee voted to authorize the System President to fulfill the requirements of the Act in conjunction with the Commissioner of Higher Education, other system heads, and all relevant stakeholders to develop a plan for the requirements of Act 419 of the 2011 Regular Legislative Session. The motion carried.

E. OTHER BUSINESS

None presented.

F. ADJOURNMENT

There being no further business to come before the Executive Committee, on motion of Supervisor Toups, seconded by Supervisor Murphy, the Executive Committee adjourned at 4:37 p.m.

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