JACC Board of Directors Meeting
November 22-23, 2008
DoubleTree Hotel, Ontario, Calif.
ATTENDING:
Jay Seidel, Faculty President
Alison Kirkham, Student President
Danny Edwards, Faculty Vice President – SoCal
Aaron Dobruck, Student Vice President - SoCal
Dympna Ugwu-Oju, Faculty Vice President – NorCal
Bhavisha Patel, Student Vice President - NorCal
Timi Poeppelman, Events Coordinator
Beth Grobman, Secretary
NOT ATTENDING:
Rich Cameron, Communications Director
Jacque Thomley, Treasurer
A. Call to Order at 10 a.m.
Minutes were approved with one spelling correction.
B. Reports
1. State Faculty Report – Seidel
Seidel reported that JACC hired a new treasurer, Jacque Thomley, a professional bookkeeper. Faculty VPs need to turn in information to Thomley to be on bank accounts.
2. State Student Report – Kirkham
Kirkham and Dobruck are cleaning up the language on the student election plan.
3. NorCal Faculty Report – Ugwu-Oju
Ugwu-Oju asked why NorCal will be later in 2009 than usual (it's scheduled for Nov. 7). Poeppleman said that NorCal and SoCal dates have switched places because the district with the latest fall starting date (late September) is in NorCal, and so a mid-October Nor Cal regional is difficult for them.
4. NorCal Student Report – Patel
Patel said some NorCal students had problems because conference rooms were switched without much notification, and that some of the competitions weren't well organized. Little mix-ups included what to do with the Alphasmarts.
5. SoCal Faculty Report – Edwards
Edwards reported some confusion about awards at conference. Edwards would like JACC to send out the message that awards should not be the colleges' goals, the education and portfolios are what's important.
6. SoCal Student Report – Dobruck
Dobruck reported that student Maria Alazai created a JACC Facebook page. Dobruck will ask Alazai to share the password with Cameron, so that there is institutional memory for the password. Dobruck said there were some problems and confusion with contests.
7. Communications Director – Cameron in absentia
Seidel summarized a report from Cameron about switching servers for the registration system. For Morro Bay, an Excel spreadsheet is a temporary fix between going from the Los Medanos server to a commercial server. The final product is a new Filemaker program on a new server. Cameron has got the membership information completed, but has not launched online yet. Poeppelman says it's important to get this the service running as soon as possible because of the uncertain fiscal times.
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