Thursday, July 28 Meetings

6:30 PM—McHenry County College Board of Trustees, Regular Board Meeting, in Board Room of the  College, 8900 US Highway 14, Crystal Lake

In addition to the routine matters for Trustees consideration, such as acceptance of minutes of prior meeting, hearing from visitors, committee reports, faculty, staff, student trustee, treasurer, and attorney reports, the Board is being requested to ratify the payment of a voucher for $1,540,013.57 which covers all the payment made during the past month for all purposes from providing for operation of the building, a trust fund, liability, protection and settlement fund and employee health insurance. The latter is the second largest amount with the education fund expenditures being the largest.

Facilities Master Plan Architect

The architectural firm, Wright Construction, is being presented to the board for approval as the firm to develop a Facilities Master Plan. This follows the review of interested firms by a committee appointed for that purpose.

New Program --TAACCCT

The Board is also being requested to approve new positions for a new program, Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant Program. This program focuses on workers who are eligible for training under the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program; those who have lost their jobs are threatened with job loss as a result of foreign trade. The program prepare participants for employment in high-wage, high-skilled occupations.

Although the grant has not yet been awarded, the College is preparing for a September announcement. Plans are being made ahead since it would be necessary to move quickly if MCC is awarded the grant, rather than have to convene a special Board meeting to do so. If the College is not a successful recipient, then none the added employees and other costs would be implemented.

Other Board Matters

The Board is being requested to approve an Agreement between the Board of Trustees and the McHenry County College Adjunct Faculty Association for the period August 18, 2011 to the end of Summer 2015 semester.

A Tobacco Free Campus Policy is being presented to the Board of Trustees for a First Reading. The idea of this policy is to prohibit the use of all tobacco products inside College facilities and vehicles and on all College property. The prohibition includes all type of tobacco products including cigar, cigarette, pipe, electronic cigarette, as well as smokeless/chewing tobacco.