YCCD Board of Trustees 2019 Planning and Development Session
The YCCD Board of Trustees held their annual planning and development session on July 10th and 11th at the YCCD Board Room. The July 10th session included a facilitated presentation and discussion on Guided Pathways, including an update provided by Drs. Pimentel and Javaheripour on the status of the Woodland Community College and Yuba College Guided Pathways initiatives. Additionally, Yuba College Dean of Student Success and Institutional Effectiveness, Jeremy Brown presented an update on the alignment of the YCCD Student Success Metrics to the Vision for Success goals and publicly accessible data. Dean Brown also highlighted the need for data validation and business process improvement as well as reviewing the District and College-level goals and assessing current progress.
The second session, held on July 11th, included Trustee review of the Chancellor’s performance evaluation and the Trustees review of the 2018-2019 Board Self-Evaluation with Dr. Mitchell Rosenberg. The Trustees identified four primary topics from the discussions surrounding the Board’s self-evaluation including (1) Trustee Education; (2) Team; (3) Culture; and (4) Succession Planning.
CCLC Co-Sponsors Food for Thought Act
The Community College League of California (CCLC) announced it has joined the Affordability, Food & Housing Access Taskforce and Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA) in co-sponsoring the Food for Thought Act H.R. 4065. This bill will establish a meal program to address food insecurity on community college campuses across the nation. Introduced on Thursday, July 25, the Food for Thought Act, would create demonstration programs to make grants available to community colleges so they can provide free meals to food-insecure students. The program would be administered by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) within the United States Department of Agriculture.
For the full press release and more information on the legislation, click here: Food for Thought Act to Address Food Insecurity on Community College Campuses
District Newsletter
The District Newsletter is intended to share updates from various participatory District-wide decision-making groups, Board Policies and Administrative Procedures, updates from Cabinet, District Services, Fiscal Services, Information Technology, M&O, and Human Resources. The August 1, 2019 District Newsletter is available here: District Newsletter
Legislative Update
Split Role Property Tax
A measure that would provide for a split roll property tax will go to the November 2020 ballot. The initiative could generate billions of dollars annually for K-12 schools, local governments and community colleges. The measure would reassess commercial and industrial properties in California every three years, instead of only reassessing the property when it is sold. The Public Policy Institute of California took a poll of likely voters on the issue in April and 54% of those that responded indicated support for the measure.
Bills of Interest
AB 2 (Santiago) – This bill passed Senate Education and will go to Senate Appropriations. The bill would provide that a student who is enrolled in fewer than 12 units may be deemed “fulltime” at the discretion of the institution if the student has been certified as “fulltime” by a staff person in the disabled student services program at the institution who is qualified to make such a designation.
AB 6 (Reyes) – This bill passed Senate Human Services and will go to Senate Appropriations. The bill would replace the Early Learning and Care division at the California Department of Education with the Early Childhood Education branch by January 1, 2021. The responsibilities of the branch would include coordinating services between agencies that provide early education programming and providing leadership in the child development community to ensure the availability of high-quality early childhood education programs. The bill also states the intent of the Legislature to adequately fund the branch.
AB 48 (O’Donnell) – This bill passed Senate Governance and Finance and will go to Senate Education Facilities Bonds on two statewide ballots. One in 2020 and one in 2022.
AB 59 (Kalra) – This bill passed Senate Elections and Constitutional Amendments and will go to Senate Appropriations. The bill would require a local elections office to give preference to additional locations on California Community College campuses and private university campuses for the purpose of providing an election center.
AB 123 (McCarty) – This bill failed deadline and is not a two-year bill. The bill would have established the Pre-K for All Act; expanding the eligibility for California State Preschool Programs; increasing the reimbursement rate for the CSPP and would require a portion of the increase to be used to increase teacher pay. The bill would also require CSPP lead teachers to hold a bachelor’s degree by a specified date and would establish a program to provide financial support to childcare workers pursuing a bachelor’s degree.
AB 130 (Low) – This bill passed Senate Government Organization and will go to Senate Appropriations. The bill would establish the Higher Education Performance and Accountability Commission, composed of six public members with experience in postsecondary education, appointed, as the statewide postsecondary education coordination and planning entity. The bill would require the commission to develop an independent annual report on the condition of higher education in California, as provided. The bill would establish other functions and responsibilities of the commission, which would include specified advisory duties and acting as a clearinghouse for postsecondary education information.
AB 239 (Salas) – This bill passed Senate floor and will go to the Governor. The bill would extend operation of provisions until January 1, 2025 that authorizes a community college registered nursing program to use any diagnostic assessment tool that is commonly used in registered nursing programs and approved by the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges. Existing law authorizes a community college registered nursing program to use additional multicriteria screening measures, administered in accordance with specified requirements, if it determines that the number of applicants to that registered nursing program exceeds its capacity.
AB 302 (Berman) – This bill passed out of Senate Judiciary and will go to Senate Appropriations. The bill would require community college districts to maintain their parking lots for students to sleep in their cars overnight.
AB 314 (Bonta) – This bill was referred to the Senate Appropriations suspense file. The bill would expand and uniformly apply time-off without loss of compensation to public employees to engage in specified activities related to employer-employee relations.
AB 376 (Stone) – This bill passed Senate Judiciary and will go to Senate Appropriations. The bill would create the Student Borrower Bill of Rights imposing new requirements on persons engaged in student loan servicing within California.
AB 381 (Reyes) – This bill passed Assembly and will go to the Governor. The bill would add domestic violence centers to the existing on-campus and community-based organizations with which governing boards should enter into memoranda of understanding, agreements, or collaborative partnerships, to the extent feasible. This bill would provide that the outreach programming required by this provision would include informing students about specified topics relating to intimate partner and dating violence, and would specify that incoming graduate, international, and transfer students be included in the definition of incoming students for the purposes of who is provided outreach programming.
AB 463 (Cervantes) – This bill passed Senate Education and will go to Senate Appropriations. The bill would require the chancellor’s office to develop and provide community college districts specified materials designed to increase awareness of the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program among community college faculty members. The bill would require the governing board of a community college district to annually provide the materials to those faculty members. The bill would require a community college district to annually provide a faculty member who is enrolled in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program with notice of renewal and a copy of the employment certification form required to be completed for purposes of the program, with the employer portion of the form already completed.
AB 500 (Gonzalez) – This bill was referred to the Senate Appropriations suspense file. The bill would require school districts, charter schools and community colleges provide at least six weeks of full pay for pregnancy-related leaves of absence taken by certificated, academic, and classified employees.
AB 540 (Limon) – This bill passed Senate Education and will go to Senate Appropriations. The bill would establish, commending with the 2020-21 academic year, the Cal Grant B Service Incentive Grant Program under the administration of the Student Aid Commission. The bill would require a participating student, in order to receive a grant award under the program, among other requirements, to be a recipient of a Cal Grant B award; to be enrolled as a student at a campus of the University of California, the California State University, or the California Community Colleges, or at an independent institution of higher education, as defined; and to perform at least 100 hours per quarter or 150 hours per semester of community or volunteer service.
AB 612 (Weber) – This bill was referred to the Senate Appropriations suspense file. The bill would authorize the State Department of Social Services to enter into a statewide memorandum of understanding with the California Community College system to prevent hunger among college students who are homeless, elderly, and disabled, and to facilitate compliance with specified provisions. Existing law also authorizes any qualifying food facility located on a campus of a community college to participate in the CalFresh RMP through this statewide memorandum of understanding, even if the facility is located in a county that does not participate in the RMP. The bill would require the department to implement its provisions by all-county letter or similar instruction until regulations are adopted and to adopt regulations implementing the bill on or before February 1, 2021.
AB 644 (Community on Public Employment and Retirement) – This bill passed the Senate floor and will go to the Governor. The bill would revise the definition of compensation earnable for the purposes of STRS to be the sum of the average annualized pay rate, as defined, paid in a school year divided by the service credited for that school year and the remuneration paid in addition to salary or wages. The bill would make various conforming changes in accordance with the revised definition of compensation earnable.
AB 695 (Medina) – This bill passed Senate Appropriations and will go to the Senate floor. The bill would extend the authorization for community college districts to enter into design-build contracts to January 1, 2030.
AB 703 (Weber) – This bill passed Senate Education and will go to Senate Appropriations. The bill would prohibit community college districts from collecting mandatory systemwide tuition and fees from persons exonerated of crimes by writ of habeas corpus or pardon.
AB 706 (Low) – This bill passed the Senate floor and will go to the Governor. The bill would eliminate limits on the time during which an employee of one school year or more is entitled to transfer the employee’s accrued leave.
AB 710 (Cervantes) – This bill passed Senate Education and will go to Senate Appropriations. The bill would require institutions in the California Community Colleges, California State University, or the University of California systems, independent institutions of higher education, and private postsecondary educational institutions to each calculate and include at a minimum, certain items, including room and board, in a calculation of a full-time student’s cost of attendance at that institution.
AB 720 (Muratsuchi) – This bill was placed in the Senate Appropriations suspense file. The bill would provide that instruction by community college districts under instructional service agreements with public safety agencies would be funded under the apportionment formula used for instruction in career development and college preparation.
AB 806 (Bloom) – This bill passed out of Senate Appropriations and will go to the Senate floor. The bill would add former homeless youth to the students to be granted, or requested to be granted, priority enrollment. This bill would add former homeless youth to the students with whom a Homeless and Foster Student Liaison works. This bill would add former homeless youth to those served by the specified financial aid programs. This bill would add persons who are, at the time of enrollment, former homeless youth to those eligible for an enrollment fee waiver.
AB 943 (Chiu) – This bill was referred to the Assembly Appropriations suspense file. The bill would authorize the use of funding for student equity plans, up to $25,000 of apportionment funds per campus, or both, for the provision of emergency student financial assistance to eligible students to overcome unforeseen financial challenges that would directly impact a student’s ability to persist in the student’s course of study if emergency student financial assistance is included in an institution’s plan for interventions to students.
AB 963 (Petrie-Norris) – This bill passed Senate Elections and Constitutional amendments and will go to Senate Appropriations. The bill would require each campus of the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and requests the University of California (1) to include on all print and online academic calendars all civic-related dates, including specified voting- and registration-related dates, (2) to engage in an information campaign relating to civic engagement, and (3) to designate one faculty member, staff member, or administrative person as the Civic Engagement and Voter Director with specified responsibilities.
AB 1051 (Smith) – This bill passed Senate Appropriations and will go to the Senate floor. The bill would authorize the employment of a temporary faculty member serving as full-time clinical nursing faculty or as part-time clinical nursing faculty by any one community college district for up to 4 semesters or 6 quarters indefinitely. The bill would also require each community college district that employs these faculty members to report the specified information on or before June 30 of each year, and would require the chancellor’s office to report its information on or before September 30 of each year.
AB 1090 (Medina) – This bill was referred to the Senate Appropriations suspense file. The bill would require community colleges and CSUs to excuse any mandatory campus-based fees for those surviving spouses and children of a deceased person who was a resident of the state and employed by or contracting with a public agency, whose principal duties consisted of active law enforcement service or active fire suppression and prevention, and who died as a result of their duties.
AB 1153 (Wicks) – This bill was referred to the Senate Appropriations suspense file. The bill would establish the Mandated Child Abuse Reporting Employee Training Act of 2020, which would require each governing board of a community college district to: (1) annually train, using an online training module developed by the State Department of Education, or other training, as specified, employees and administrators of the district who are mandated reporters on the mandated reporting requirements, as specified; (2) develop a process for those persons required to receive training under the bill to provide proof of completing this training within the first six weeks of each academic year or within six weeks of that person’s employment; and (3) develop a process to identify the students who are minors enrolled in classes at the community college district and provide that information only to faculty members and other employees who are mandated reporters.
AB 1308 (Cunningham) – This bill passed Senate Government Organization and will go to the Senate floor. The bill would allow a qualified student to taste an alcoholic beverage and exempts the student and the qualified academic institution in which the student is enrolled from criminal prosecution if the qualified academic institution has established an Associate’s degree or Bachelor’s degree program in hotel management or culinary arts.
AB 1313 (Rivas) – This bill passed Senate Judiciary and will go to Senate Appropriations. The bill would prohibit a school from refusing to provide a transcript for a current or former student on the grounds that the student owes a debt, conditioning the provision of a transcript on the payment of a debt, charging a higher fee for obtaining a transcript, providing less favorable treatment of a transcript request because a student owes a debt, or using a transcript issuance as a tool for debt collection.
AB 1452 (O’Donnell) – This bill was placed in the Senate Appropriations suspense file. The bill would prohibit aggregating creditable service in more than one position for determining mandatory membership on a part-time basis for 50% or more of the time, the employer requires for a full-time position. This bill would specify that an employee’s election for coverage under the federal Social Security Act or an alternative retirement plan does not preclude that employee from electing to participate in the Cash Balance Benefit Program for creditable service performed for that employer at a later date, if the program is still offered and the employee is still eligible.
AB 1466 (Irwin) – This bill passed Senate Labor, Public Employment & Retirement and will go to Senate Appropriations. The bill would require the Governor to convene a taskforce on the establishment of a statewide student longitudinal database, with specified representatives from various segments in, and representatives of, the elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education systems in the state and from the state agencies relating to the workforce. The bill would authorize the taskforce to establish working groups that include outside stakeholders to address topics as determined by the taskforce. The bill would require the taskforce to initially meet on or before July 1, 2020, and would specify objectives for the taskforce to meet within timeframes set forth in the bill, including developing a plan for a scope of work and preparing a report with recommendations by the taskforce of an implementation plan for the structure of, governance of, access to, and metrics included in, a database system. This bill would require the taskforce to submit the report to the Legislature and the Governor on or before July 1, 2022.
AB 1504 (Medina) – This bill passed Senate Appropriations and will go to the Senate floor. The bill would require the officials at a community college, if a student body association has been established at the college, to collect a student representation fee of $2 at the time of registration, and would eliminate the authorization for a student election to terminate the fee. This bill would require that $1 of the $2 fee be expended to establish and support the operation of a statewide community college organization for all student representation fees collected, rather than only for those fees adopted on or after January 1, 2014.
AB 1518 (Chu) – This bill passed Senate Judiciary and will go to the Senate floor. The bill would authorize a student athlete to enter into a contract with an athlete agent without losing their status as a student athlete, if the contract complies with the policy of the student athlete’s educational institution and the bylaws of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The bill would authorize an athlete agent or their representative to offer or provide money or any other thing of benefit or value to a student athlete if it is authorized and complies with the policy of the student athlete’s educational institution and the bylaws of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
AB 1645 (Rubio) – This bill was placed in the Senate Appropriations suspense file. The bill would require the California Community Colleges and the California State University, and request the University of California, to designate a Dreamer Resource Liaison on each of their respective campuses, as specified, to assist students meeting specified requirements, including undocumented students, by streamlining access to all available financial aid, social services, state-funded immigration legal services, internships, externships, and academic opportunities for those students.
AB 1727 (Weber) – This bill was placed in the Senate Appropriations suspense file. The bill would authorize the calculation of attendance for Career Development and College Preparation courses by census date.
AB 1729 (Smith) – This bill was placed in the Senate Appropriations suspense file. The bill would exempt from the 5% limitation pupils who are enrolled in community college dual enrollment courses, and would explicitly provide that the 5% limitation apply to pupils enrolled in physical education courses at the community college.
AB 1774 (Bonta) – This bill passed Senate Education and will go to Senate Appropriations. The bill would authorize the Student Aid Commission to grant a postponement of an application deadline of up to 30 calendar days for any financial aid program administered by the commission. This authority would apply if the commission receives a formal request to extend a deadline from a designated educational official and the commission finds that a qualifying event has occurred that, in judgment of the commission, has had an adverse effect on the ability of pupils or students within a school district, community college district, or an area or region within the state, such as a city or county, to successfully complete and submit their financial aid applications by the established application deadline.
SB 3 (Allen) – This bill passed Assembly Higher Education and will go to Assembly Appropriations. The bill would establish the Office of Higher Education Coordination, Accountability, and Performance. The bill would give the office specified functions and responsibilities for purposes of statewide postsecondary education planning, oversight, data collection, and coordination.
SB 150 (Beall) – This bill was placed in the Assembly Appropriations suspense file. The bill would authorize the Student Aid Commission to make initial award offers of Chafee Educational and Training Vouchers Program of up to 200% of total state and federal program funding available for all awards, with the number of initial award offers and the amount of the award to be determined based on the historical rate of award acceptance. This bill would provide that if the acceptance rate of the awards offered exceeds the program funding available, the commission shall deduct the overage from the following year’s program funding allocation. This bill would also take away Chafee grant eligibility from a student who fails to demonstrate satisfactory academic progress, as defined by the institution where the student is enrolled, for 2 consecutive years, with specified exceptions. The bill would require that institutions provide an appeal process in writing and reinstate the student’s Chafee grant when certain conditions are met. The bill would also provide that a student who loses Chafee eligibility and subsequently is not enrolled for one or more terms shall regain eligibility upon reenrollment.
SB 173 (Dodd) – This bill was concurred in Assembly amendments in the Senate and will go to the Governor. The bill would require the department to create a standardized form to be used by community colleges and universities to verify that a student is approved and anticipating participation in state or federal work study for the purpose of assisting county human services agencies in determining the student’s potential eligibility for CalFresh. The bill would require community colleges and universities to distribute the form to all students approved for state or federal work study and to provide information required to complete that form.
SB 297 (Pan) – This bill passed out of Assembly Higher Education and will go to Assembly Education. The bill would alter the Field Act to require the submission of the plans to the Department of General Services before the commencement of any construction or alteration of any school building instead of before adopting the plans. The bill would also require under the Field Act, the written departmental approval of the plans, specifications, and estimates before the commencement of any construction or alteration of any school building instead of before the letting of the contract.
SB 383 (Committee on Education) – This bill passed the Assembly and will go to the Governor. This Education Omnibus Bill makes noncontroversial and technical changes to the Education Code.
SB 390 (Umberg) – This bill passed Assembly Higher Education and will go to Assembly Appropriations. The bill would require school security officers and security guards for school districts and community college districts to complete that training course regardless of the number of hours worked per week and to complete the training course annually. The bill would require, by January 1, 2021, the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services, in consultation with the Commission on Peace Officers Standards and Training, to update the training to reflect current school district and community college district security standards.
SB 462 (Stern) – This bill passed Assembly Natural Resources and will go to Assembly Appropriations. The bill would require the Chancellor’s Office of the California Community Colleges, working in collaboration with the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, to establish a model curriculum for a forestland restoration workforce program that could be offered at campuses of the California Community Colleges. The bill would require the chancellor’s office to distribute the model curriculum to community college districts no later than January 1, 2021, with the goal of enabling interested community college districts to offer the course to students beginning with the 2021–22 academic year.
SB 484 (Portantino) – This bill passed Assembly Higher Education and will go to Assembly Appropriations. The bill would require the governing board of each community college district to direct the appropriate officials at their respective campuses to (1) identify those students who have completed an associate degree for transfer, (2) notify those students of their completion of the degree requirements, (3) automatically award those students the degree, and (4) add those students to an identification system at the end of each academic year that the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges shall maintain and that can be accessed electronically by the California State University and the University of California. The bill would authorize a student to affirmatively exercise an option to not receive an associate degree for transfer or to not be included in the identification system.
SB 554 (Roth) – This bill passed Assembly Higher Education and will go to Assembly Appropriations. The bill would authorize the governing board of a school district overseeing an adult education program or the governing board of a community college district overseeing a noncredit program to authorize a student pursuing a high school diploma or a high school equivalency certificate to enroll as a special part-time student at a community college.
SB 568 (Portantino) – This bill passed Assembly and will go to the Senate for concurrence in Assembly amendments. The bill would authorize Glendale Community College’s governing board, pursuant to a memorandum of understanding, to provide that April 24 shall be a Glendale College holiday known as “Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.”
SB 575 (Bradford) – This bill passed Assembly Higher Education and will go to Assembly Appropriations. The bill would repeal prohibition against a student who is incarcerated from being eligible to receive a Cal Grant award.
SB 586 (Roth) – This bill passed Assembly Education and will go to the Assembly floor. The bill would require the governing board of a school district and the governing board of a community college district or the governing body of a charter school providing career technical education pathways under a CCAP partnership to, as part of the partnership agreement, consult with the appropriate local workforce development board to align the pathways with the state’s current and future employment needs.
SB 660 (Pan) – This bill passed Assembly Higher Education and will go to Assembly Appropriations. The bill would require the Trustees of the California State University and the governing board of each community college district to have one full-time equivalent mental health counselor with an applicable California license per 1,500 students enrolled at each of their respective campuses to the extent consistent with state and federal law. The bill would define mental health counselor for purposes of this provision.
SB 716 (Mitchell) – This bill passed Assembly Public Safety and will go to Assembly Appropriations. The bill would require a county probation department, in collaboration with the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California, to ensure that juveniles with a high school diploma or California high school equivalency certificate who are detained in, or committed to, a juvenile hall, ranch, camp, or forestry camp have access to a full array of postsecondary academic and career technical education programs of their choice. This bill would also require the Division of Juvenile Facilities, in collaboration with the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California, to ensure that youth with a high school diploma or California high school equivalency certificate who are detained in, or committed to, a Division of Juvenile Facilities facility have access to a full array of postsecondary academic and career technical education programs of their choice.
SB 777 (Rubio) – This bill was pulled from committee by the author and is now a two-year bill. The bill would have required a 5% increase toward the 75% law on an annual basis, contingent upon funding being provided in the budget.
Chancellor’s Calendar
August 2019
1 – Travel & attend CISO Advanced Seminar & Keynote Speaker
2 – Meeting with Student Trustees
6 – District Services Convocation
7 – Meeting with WCC President
7 – YCCD Foundation Board Meeting
8 – Meeting with Trustee Savarese
8 – Board Policy Committee Meeting
8 – Regular Meeting of the Governing Board
12 – New Employee Orientation
12 – Meeting with Trustee Teagarden
13 – Chancellor’s Cabinet
13 – Meeting with District Services Executive Team
14 – Colleges’ Convocations
15 – District, Colleges, Academic Senate (DCAS) Leadership Meeting
20 – Chancellor’s Cabinet
20 – Meeting with WCC President
21 thru 23 – Yuba-Sutter Veterans Stand Down
21 – District Management Council
22 – Meeting with YC President
22 – Meeting with FAYCCD Leadership
26 – Meeting with Trustee Hastey
27 – Chancellor’s Cabinet
27 – Meeting with College Presidents
27 – Meeting with Academic Senates Leadership
28 – Tentatively attend Align Capital Region Planning Summit
