[Speaker 2] (0:00 - 0:26)
At six in the evening, I will call this meeting of the General Assembly of Lee of College on November 20, 2025, to order at six in the evening. To everyone present and accounted for, we have a quorum until the Texas game starts a little later. We may lose some people by then, but for now we are all here.

Alright, the first order of business is the invocation and the pledging of the flag of the United States and the flag of Texas. Regent Gina Guillory will lead us.

[Speaker 10] (0:45 - 1:32)
The second order of business is the invocation and the pledging of the flag of the United States. The second order of business is the invocation and the pledging of the flag of Texas. Thank you, Regent Guillory.

[Speaker 2] (1:35 - 1:42)
All right. We'll move to our next agenda item, Student Spotlight. Who will be presenting that this evening?

[Speaker 5] (1:42 - 1:48)
Well, I'm going to ask Kelly Forde Spears to introduce our very special student who is here to visit with us.

[Speaker 8] (1:52 - 3:10)
Good evening, and thanks for the opportunity to join you tonight to highlight the incredible support Lee College provides to our student parents and to introduce our student spotlight speaker. Approximately 20% of Lee College students identify as the parent or guardian of a child under the age of 18, and more than half of those identify as single parents. For these students, targeted resources are essential to ensuring their success.

Through the Student Resource and Advocacy Center, we provide child care assistance, a single parent success program, mental health support groups for parents, educational workshops, and family engagement opportunities. I want to extend my sincere appreciation to the Board, to Dr. Villanueva, and to so many of my colleagues in the audience for their support in our parenting initiatives, especially lately with the uncertainty of federal funding. Tonight's speaker, Ms. Marissa Rodriguez, is one of the many parenting students who have benefited from these efforts. Marissa is an accounting major and the proud mother of three. She, and hundreds of student parents like her, are here to build a better life for themselves and their families. Their sacrifice, determination, and heart inspire me every day.

So please join me in welcoming Ms. Marissa Rodriguez.

[Speaker 3] (3:16 - 5:56)
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Again, my name is Marissa Rodriguez, and I was asked to speak to you all about what it's like being a student who also happens to be a parent. I began my Lee College journey many years ago as a married mom of three beautiful babies.

I received a flyer in the mail during COVID that offered free classes. I looked at those three tiny faces. I knew I had to choose a career path and go for it.

I then decided I was going to be successful, not only for myself, but to be that inspiration to my kids that in this family we work hard and we succeed. Fast forward two semesters into the nursing program. Life abruptly took a turn and I had to make the choice to leave my marriage for the safety and well-being of my children and myself.

I had to request for withdrawal from the nursing program, which my professors were not happy with, that is until they heard my story, one that I hid from everyone. They reluctantly signed and I left to start changing my life for the better. I received a phone call the next day from a counselor here at Lee College named Ms. Linda Torres Mann. She kindly asked me to come speak with her as my professors had reached out to her about my disposition. I accepted the invite. I came to her office thinking it was just going to be a conversation, but to my surprise, she had several people lined up with help from every direction.

I couldn't believe it. The bridge over troubled waters was absolutely incredible. There was also a pantry that offered food, toiletries, and clothing.

There were programs that offered rental assistance, which helped me land my first apartment. There was a furniture store that offered to furnish the apartment for my children to have beds, a couch, a dining table, all the things needed to make a home. In these types of situations, women often have to leave with nothing, but this wonderful group of people made sure that my kids and I had a home that we could call our own.

We also received counseling assistance and so much more. Let's fast forward again to today. I have returned to Lee College to continue this journey towards a degree in accounting.

As soon as I walked in the door, I'm greeted with a program for single parents. Immediately, it was a yes. This program has offered a ton of amazing benefits, childcare, tutoring sessions, group therapy sessions, arts and crafts, job fairs, and pizza parties that my kids absolutely enjoy.

The resources available to me have kept this light lit inside of me, because if you're a parent, you understand the phrase, it takes a village. Lee College, you have no idea the impact you've made on my life, how the quick actions of your staff helped shape my future, how it brought my little family the safety and security it had never known. I thank you for giving me another chance through all of your programs to achieve my goals and dreams as I continue to make this life the best one I can for my kids and a successful one for myself.

Thank you, guys.

[Speaker 10] (6:55 - 6:56)
Thank you again, Marissa.

[Speaker 2] (6:57 - 8:25)
Those are the inspirational stories that make what we do just worth doing. Thank you. Thank you for sharing with us this evening.

Thank you. Okay, now we move on to the rest of our business. What happened?

Oh, she was winging at me. All right, I'm a little jumpy around her every once in a while. All right, next order of business is disposition of minutes.

We have before us the Audit and Investment Committee meeting, October 14, 2025, the Building Committee meeting, October 15, 2025, and the Board meeting of October 16, 2025. One who's read them is welcome to make a motion to accept them. I have a motion from Regent Guillory, a second from Regent Geralds.

Any comments or corrections to the minutes that have been presented? None? All in favor say aye.

Aye. Opposed, no. Minutes have been approved.

We'll move on to report of the chairman. I don't have a very long report. All I'm going to say is I think since we last met, some of us got together in New Orleans.

It was official business at the ACCT conference. It's an annual conference we go to and we had a lot of breakout sessions. Lee College was represented well.

And I'm going to open it up to any of my colleagues who were there who might want to just give a quick update of what they experienced. I know I didn't prepare you for that, but anyone?

[Speaker 10] (8:28 - 8:28)
Okay.

[Speaker 4] (8:41 - 10:28)
Being sorry, being in New Orleans, I look forward to the to the meals and the cooking. And so I saw a session that said come and join us for an A1 look session on how to, you know, I thought was cooking. And so, you know, I got there and, you know, I was I was very shocked to realize it was actually AI.

And I sat back and I didn't realize what was going on, you know, for a while. But I realized after a while how important AI is to us. And I took a few notes and 90% of the students I understand use AI, you know, in their in their college work.

They stress that we need AI policy. And I don't know if we have AI policy yet or not. I see some heads going up and down.

Maybe we ought to take a look at it. We haven't looked at it yet. I don't know.

Another thing they mentioned was ghosting. And there's a lot of colleges, especially in California, that are getting ghosting through enrollment. I guess people enroll using AI and it's a ghost and fake, whatever that is.

I attended the that session happened to be put on by the lawyers roundtable. And the person that gave it was the attorney for Delmar College. He did an outstanding job explaining, spent an hour on AI.

And it may be good since he's in the neighborhood, we could have him come and talk to us someday about what, you know, the pros and cons and the hurdles. But, you know, it's not, it's not this after all. But as a reminder, we need to stay after AI.

I'll leave you that you can have that to remind you that AI is very important. Okay.

[Speaker 2] (10:30 - 10:38)
My air. Thank you, Regent Hemsel. We can always count on you for a one or Oreos or whatever you choose to bring up here for us.

Anyone else?

[Speaker 6] (10:39 - 12:07)
Yeah, I keeping with the AI theme, I attended a couple of AI sessions and most of them were at a high level conceptual policy format. But the last session that I attended, it was from a suburban college in the Chicago area. And it was a an instructor department head from this college that that gave real life on the screen examples of how this tool is used.

He gave the example of how instructors would use it. And it was very eye opening for me. I mean, it was, you know, he, you know, typing in a command like, give me a grading criteria for a descriptive paper on the city of Chicago.

So that was the assignment described the city of Chicago. And then it spit out, here's the grading criteria. And then he gave an example of, okay, here's a paper that a student submitted, submitted, you know, scanned it in and, you know, in just, you know, milliseconds, you've got a grade.

It just eye opening of how what a time saver it is for as a tool for the teachers. So to see that real life application of it was pretty amazing. Because any sessions I've sat in previous were, like I said, more conceptual.

And this was, this is how you actually use it. So it was very, very informative.

[Speaker 2] (12:08 - 13:00)
Good. Anyone else? You know, it's a valuable conference for us.

We may not be the ones that the, you know, where the rubber meets the road dealing with AI or any of the other issues that we are presented with. But when we understand it a little bit better, we can certainly support what has to happen. And that's what we're here for.

So I can say that I probably only went to one session where one other of my colleagues was in the room. That's another value where we spread out and we come back with a lot of different perspectives on what's going on around the country. There may be some parts of the country we just don't relate to.

And I didn't go to any of those. But there's a lot that does relate to us. And so it was beneficial for us to be there.

Thanks to everyone who could participate. Comments? I have nothing else to offer as far as an update.

So we'll move to Building Committee report.

[Speaker 6] (13:02 - 13:32)
We met yesterday. There are a couple of items on the action. One will be the camping upgrades and also a presentation of Rondell Hall office suite.

And then the item that was discussed. We were updated on the Facility Master Plan. That contract has been pulled.

[Speaker 10] (13:37 - 13:47)
Architects. Questions or comments?

[Speaker 2] (13:48 - 14:09)
Regent Flateno on the Building Committee update. Move on to the Policy Committee report. We have a meeting scheduled in early December.

Thank you. We'll move to Audit and Investment Committee. Regent Geralds?

[Speaker 11] (14:09 - 14:12)
We did not meet this month, but we are scheduled to meet on December 15th.

[Speaker 2] (14:12 - 14:16)
All right. Thank you very much. Next we'll move to Report of the President.

[Speaker 5] (14:17 - 16:16)
Thank you. I just have a couple of items that I'd like to share. So yesterday I had the wonderful opportunity to meet with members of our Criminal Justice Club as well as members of our Student Government Association who collaborated together to raise over $1,700 to provide Thanksgiving food for the Student Resource and Advocacy Center.

And so I want to thank the students in both areas, but also their sponsors, Mel Stevenson and Joe Greathouse. It was just wonderful to spend time with them and to see them literally carrying the food over, and they were very proud, and it was a very wonderful collaborative effort. And then finally, I wanted to give kudos to Regent Guillory, who was, once again, recently reappointed to the ACCT Governance and Bylaws Committee.

Congratulations, and thank you for representing us on the national stage. That's it? Oh, yes.

Yes, yes, yes, yes. So, yes, it was, we celebrated, I believe it was 865 years of collective service to the college, and it was our third annual recognition event. Amanda, thank you so much for everything that you did, and we have, we had Shanna and Vanessa, who really made sure everything was great, and I certainly was happy to turn five years old.

It was a wonderful thing to experience, but we love to be able to recognize members of our family who have spent significant years with the college and are reaching that milestone, and I want to thank the board members who were able to make it. And, you know, like we got, Amanda, you sent me an email and said that there were comments from those who said, wow, a board member sat with me at my table. I had no idea.

And so, I want you guys to know how meaningful that is when people are sharing that.

[Speaker 11] (16:17 - 16:46)
If I can add, the table I was sitting at was with some of the custodians and sit with them, but you were working the room, and she made the comment, she says, Dr. V. goes out of her way to greet everybody and says, when she's out on campus, she comes to us and greets us. It makes them feel valued, and everybody wants to be valued.

[Speaker 10] (16:53 - 16:55)
Thank you very much.

[Speaker 2] (16:55 - 17:04)
We'll move on to, let's see, informational reports, report of Lee College resignations and or retirements. Dr. Villanueva.

[Speaker 5] (17:04 - 17:13)
Yes, I have two. The first is Alyssa Hernandez in the TRIO program, and the second is Patrick Bravo, full-time faculty in instrumentation.

[Speaker 2] (17:14 - 17:50)
Thank you. I normally don't comment, but I just want to share a little bit. Patrick Bravo is an ExxonMobil retiree who then came to Lee College to give back, right?

Most of these guys, and he did work for me for a little while, but they go back to ExxonMobil and they want to make all this money, but he realized that he needed to give back to his community, so his resignation is really a second retirement, so just it's that he's a special one. All right, we'll move on to financial report. Jacob Atkin.

[Speaker 1] (18:01 - 21:45)
Right, so the report this evening is through the end of October. We'll start with our cash and investments report. A couple of things to note on here.

You'll notice that our operating fund took a big jump. In October we get our first state appropriations payment, which is actually 50% of the entire payment for the year, so that's a little over $10 million. You'll also notice that on land held for investment, that's now being reported at $16,390,000.

We finished the appraisal, and it jumped from $11,939,000 to $16,390,000 in total value, so we're pleased about the growth in that value. We've also made adjustments to board reserves and insurance reserves, so that you can see now we have $26,687,000 in board reserves. That represents four months of reserves for FY26, and we budget a million dollars a year to go into insurance reserves, so you'll see that continue to increase at the end of each fiscal year.

In terms of our financial activity through the end of October, keep in mind we're 16 and a half percent of the way through the year, and you can see that our revenue is already trending up, which is good. We're collecting revenue at a faster pace than we had anticipated. Our expenses are a little bit under budget, but we're doing a better job this year than we did last year in keeping pace with our budgeted expenses for the year.

In summary, you can see that our revenues are up $865,000. That's due primarily to tuition and fees and a little better collection on district taxes than we've usually experienced, and collection that's for last year and all previous year's collections. We haven't started collecting for this year's assessment yet, and on salaries, we're a little behind schedule on contract services and some of our other operating expenses, but we'll watch that closely and make sure we catch up before we get to the end of the year.

In terms of our facility projects, the cosmetology renovation had $187,000 of expenses in October. That essentially completes that project. We still have run outs on a few items, but all of the work has been completed, and we're very close to finishing that project, and then you can see we're still doing a little bit of work on ADA phase two.

The capital projects approved last year are progressing well, particularly with information technology and facilities. You'll hear a couple of presentations later today for emergency management and some of the projects that they would like to move forward, so we're happy to see good progress there. With regard to our restricted funds, the major component here that has been a concern for the last two months is the million dollars that were in arrears with the federal government.

Now, through the end of October, the federal government was still shut down. I'm happy to report that, as of today, we've collected most of that money from the feds, and so the November report will get back to the normal schedule of a regular month deferral on our federal funds, but not several months like we are today. And with that, I would field any questions on the financial report.

[Speaker 10] (21:48 - 21:52)
Questions? All right.

[Speaker 2] (21:52 - 22:00)
Thank you, Jacob. All right. Next item on the agenda, I know you're gonna hang right there, update on ERP selection process.

[Speaker 1] (22:01 - 36:19)
All right. As many of you know, we've been talking about updating our ERP system for several months, so I want to do a brief overview and give you an update on our progress as far as that selection is concerned. So, just a reminder, ERP system is the backbone of all of our accounting systems, so it deals with our financial transactions, our HR related transactions, and our student related transactions are all stored in the ERP system.

We adopted PeopleSoft in 2002, and while that was an appropriate choice at the time, we are getting towards the end of life of PeopleSoft, and it's time for us to look at a new product. And part of the reason that we need to do that are related to some deficiencies in PeopleSoft, and part of that is related to the desire to greatly expand our offerings. So, one of the challenges with PeopleSoft, it's hosted on premise.

That means we have to buy and maintain the servers and the support, the backup. Everything is run off of this campus. If we have a major outage here on this campus, and we have to rely on backups, and that can cost us functionality.

It's also highly customized, which means over the past 23 years, we have made many programming changes to the system. That creates issues when we're patching or upgrading the system, because those customizations can sometimes break. That leads to processing delays in a slow system.

It also leads to a delay in updating to newer versions of PeopleSoft, because of all the problems that those patches create. Hardware maintenance and integration is expensive and ongoing. PeopleSoft also has a limited shelf life.

Now, Oracle has not given us a specific date for when they're going to terminate service for PeopleSoft, but they've notified us that it's on the docket for end of life. And so, one way or another, we're going to have to make a change, but we're going to explain to you why now is the appropriate time for us to do that. And then finally, PeopleSoft, while it's the backbone of our system, we have to integrate many third-party systems to handle a number of issues.

So, for example, we have NeoEd to handle our hiring, and we have a separate system to handle our payroll, right? They all feed into PeopleSoft, but we're maintaining multiple systems and multiple integrations in order to keep the general operations of the college working on a day-to-day basis. So, as we start this process, we had two absolute critical requirements that we must achieve.

First, we want finance, HR, and student services to all be in the same platform in the same instance. We have that now with PeopleSoft, but we have three separate instances. So, finance, is one instance, HR is a separate instance, student is a separate instance.

We have separate logins, and then we have integrations that we have to run in order to keep them all updated and synced. So, we're looking for a system that has all of those in one instance to ensure that the data is complete, and that we have one record to rule them all. Second, we wanted to ensure that the system was hosted in the cloud, and I'm going to go into more detail about why that's so important, but this addresses numerous, numerous issues that have arisen with the implementation of PeopleSoft over the last 20 years.

Now, in order to meet those two objectives, there are really only three solutions available. You have Oracle Cloud ERP, Ellucian Banner SAS, and Workday ERP, and we are in the process of embedding those three solutions presently. Now, the new ERP benefits, and this is a gross understatement of how much of a difference this is going to make.

First, this is going to change the student experience, and I have another slide with more detail on that, but it's not just about managing accounting or managing HR. This is going to change the way that students interact with the college. It's going to make registering for classes, getting tutoring, getting early indicators and early help on a real-time basis.

So, instead of having members who have to manually go through records to see if they can find a problem, AI is going to automate that. We're going to get notifications, and so our people are going to be able to spend all of their time working to intervene on the student's behalf to help them be more successful. It's going to reduce hardware and IT maintenance, right?

We're not going to be providing servers. We're not going to be responsible for maintaining the system locally. That, in connection with enhanced data security, right, they manage the security of the system as it's hosted in the cloud on their servers.

It also gives us an exceptional data backup, right? We could have a massive hurricane that would wipe out the IT facility, and our ERP system would have no glitches and no hang-ups, and most of these companies have redundancies. So, it's hosted in two different locations within the United States.

So, even if they were to have a major catastrophe in one location, we would see zero interruption in service. This addresses some of the concerns that have been raised by the board in terms of how do we back up in the event of an emergency. This gives us that built-in backup if we host it in the cloud.

Additionally, it's easier for us to scale in the cloud. Right now, you know, as we add new modules, if we want to expand, sometimes that requires integration of new hardware. In the cloud, if we want to turn on a module with our partner vendor, we turn it on and it's active the next day.

We're good to go. And so, this is going to allow us to be more innovative and more forward-thinking. And in terms of streamlined processes and AI integration, Regent Fontenot was talking about watching them use AI to grade papers immediately.

Well, we're watching AI conduct automatic reconciliations of our bank account and processing the transactions and then just highlighting the actual individual transactions that they couldn't figure out where it should go. And we're looking at AI identify early indicators for students in these demos. So, we're incredibly excited about this.

I haven't been here that long, but I feel confident in saying this is going to change Lee College more than anything that has happened in the last 25 years in terms of the way that we do business and the way that we're perceived by our students. So, speaking of our students, this will impact all aspects of student life, starting with registration, financial aid, advising, payments, communication. It's going to help integrate with faculty members so that we can communicate to faculty members when we see issues so that the faculty members themselves can reach out to the students.

This will legitimately give us a huge lift and a huge advantage over the other community colleges in the Gulf Coast area because nobody else has taken this step yet. We will be the first. So, cloud ERP versus non-cloud ERP.

Business operations are better, student experience is better, security is better. Cost. Cost we have to take a broader look at and I'll talk about that a little bit later.

But when you factor in all of the expenses, not just the cost of a subscription, right, this is going to play well for the college in the long term. Far more reliable in terms of updates. Updates get pushed automatically and we are adopting an approach that's different than what we've done in the past.

Collectively as an institution, we've decided that we are adopting best practices built into the system and we are going to adjust our practices to reflect the way that the system works the best instead of trying to modify the system to work the way that we've worked in the past so that as these updates roll out, they plug and they play, they don't break anything and for the most part, the average user won't notice any delays or hiccups in making those updates, which should keep us more secure and more up to date with best practices moving forward. And IT workloads focused here, but I'll tell you right now that the workload for all employees in the system are going to change, right, that integrated AI in the systems that we're looking at right now process the transactions and we have many staff members, many accountants, many HR staff members, many IT staff members that work almost exclusively on processing transactions. Well, that job is going to become automated and those same individuals are now going to be able to spend their time acting more strategically, identifying and fixing problems, reaching out and providing better service to the students.

It's also going to allow us to grow and to serve more students without having to dramatically increase our payroll, which is our largest expense. So when I'm talking about future cost savings, right, it's about more than just a subscription cost. It's about our ability to do more work with fewer employees and keeping our largest expense payroll to an absolute minimum.

So let's talk about the evaluation process. Each solution is going through a similar process. Right now we have done discovery with each of the different solutions where they came in, they met with a variety of staff to find out how we're doing things, what we need the system to do, what our goals are for improvements throughout the implementation.

And we've done demos with two of the three institutions and we have the next demo coming up the week after Thanksgiving. Once those demos are done, we can start working into evaluating the cost and the contracts. So we have to look at the actual cost of each implementation and then compare cost, functionality, and fit between all three solutions before coming to the board with an actual recommendation.

And then once the board approves that, we'll still have to go through and finalize the contract, which can take some time. In terms of projected timeline, demonstrations will be completed the week after Thanksgiving. We will immediately start working on pricing and contracts following the final demonstration with the intent to bring this to the board on December 18th to approve the contract.

And it's really important that we make that date if at all possible. Based on early conversations with the vendors, there are significant incentives for us to sign the contract before the end of the fourth quarter. These are all large corporations.

They're all beholden to shareholders. And we get a big discount if we can get this contract finalized and signed before the end of December. And when I say a big discount, I'm talking about $100,000 a year and $1 million over the life of the contract type savings.

So I want to assure all of you that we have spent literally hundreds of hours as a staff evaluating these products. And we have been incredibly thorough, and we are considering every aspect of this to the best of our ability in making this decision. But the December 18th meeting, it's not a hard deadline, but it's a big money deadline if we can make that deadline.

And so, 25-year view, right? This is not a short implementation process. We're looking at 24 to 36 months just to fully implement.

And the initial contract will be for 10 years. This is going to have a ramping effect on the institution, right? Year one this year is going to be about implementation.

You won't even see us go live on finance and AT&T, right? We're going to be able to do some of that. But you're going to see the impact of this in your budget cycle, not at least the impact of the budget cycle.

You're going to see a big shift in the way that we ask for resources and how we plan strategically for how we do our work, de manera estratégica para abordar nuestros problemas en el futuro, a medida que lleguemos a esta implementación. Y estoy emocionado por esto. Creo que si miras a las personas que han hecho esto, hay un entusiasmo amplio por estos cambios.

Esto va a ser enorme para nosotros, así que estamos muy emocionados. Estamos muy emocionados por tu apoyo. Y con eso, tomaría cualquier pregunta que tengas.

[Speaker 4] (36:27 - 36:41)
Tenemos tres vendedores libres, parece que lo has aclarado. ¿Este producto que proponen está siendo usado en otros colegios para estos tres vendedores, o sigue siendo creado en su infancia?

[Speaker 1] (36:42 - 37:50)
Todos estos productos están siendo usados en algunas otras instituciones en el estado. Así que Austin y Dallas están en el día de trabajo. El banner de Ellucian probablemente tiene a los mayores clientes.

Y lo interesante de Ellucian es que todos sus clientes no usan todos sus servicios, ¿verdad? Así que probablemente tienen el módulo de estudiantes más completo y comprensivo. Y así verás a algunos clientes que tienen una solución para financiación y HR y Ellucian para estudiantes.

Y Oracle es probablemente la más desarrollada en la integración artificial, pero su módulo de estudiantes es nuevo y sus testadores de beta salen en vivo en el fallo del 27. Así que intentamos tomar todo eso en consideración, pero cuando miramos a aquellos que han estado en el cloud de estudiantes, la solución más larga en el día de trabajo, esos son productos muy desarrollados que han estado disponibles durante 10 años o más.

[Speaker 4] (37:51 - 38:03)
Así que le pregunto, ¿Vas a hacer alguna visita en sitio a alguno de esos? O cuando quizás elegirás el final, ¿vas a ir a uno de esos colegios y hablar con la gente?

[Speaker 1] (38:03 - 38:33)
Así que estamos haciendo llamadas y cheques, cheques de referencia. No habíamos planeado ninguna visita en sitio. Y no necesitamos realmente.

Todo lo que están haciendo, estamos mirando en una pantalla de computadora. Así que cuando hacemos estos cheques, si quieren compartir algo con nosotros, pueden hacerlo en línea remotamente. Así que no espero que hagamos visitas en sitio con ninguno de nuestros compañeros de colegio comunitario, pero estamos haciendo cheques de referencia.

[Speaker 4] (38:35 - 38:56)
A veces cuando estás frente a frente con alguien, puedes aprender mucho más que cuando estás hablando con ellos en el teléfono o en el e-mail o algo así. Pero esto es un gran negocio para nosotros y es muy caro. Queremos asegurarnos de tomar el tiempo para llegar.

Suena como si estuvieras, pero lo que sea que necesites, asegúrate de preguntar.

[Speaker 1] (38:57 - 39:35)
Y estamos realmente tomando el tiempo. Así que la descubrimiento, es un día completo de reuniones, donde se encuentran con un departamento tras otro. Y para las pruebas, son tres días de reuniones sólidas, o sea, ocho horas al día.

¿Y cuántos de aquí se han sentado a través, al menos parte de una presentación? Así que, estamos realmente comprometidos en asegurarnos de tomar la decisión correcta, tanto desde el punto de vista del comité como también desde el punto de vista Tengo un par de preguntas, si puedo agregarlas.

[Speaker 7] (39:35 - 39:48)
Primero, sobre la seguridad, asumo que, soy un poco antiguo, así que la nube me hace un poco nervioso. La información está un poco lejos, pero estás diciendo que esto, ¿sería completamente?

[Speaker 6] (39:49 - 39:52)
La nube en el cielo. Yo arreglaría la información en tus dedos.

[Speaker 7] (39:53 - 41:06)
Bueno, está fuera de vista. Entiendo que no es una nube en el cielo, pero está fuera de vista. Entiendo.

¿El aspecto de la seguridad de esto está mejorado significativamente o el riesgo es casi completamente eliminado? Porque hemos oído las historias de terror, hemos estado en las convenciones y todo, o alguien rompe el sistema y cerra, tal vez, o empieza a pagar billetes y cosas así. Hemos oído de varias instituciones que han tenido que suceder.

Y asumo que hay alguna vulnerabilidad cuando usamos nuestros propios sistemas aquí. ¿Eso puede ser completamente eliminado? Y si puedo poner la segunda pregunta, así que asegurarme de ponerla algo relacionada.

Si tenemos algún tipo de situación catastrófica, ¿cómo es fácil reestablecer los links o tal, si tenemos fallos y si ¿podríamos, tal vez, desarrollar un sistema de apoyo donde pudiéramos tener una localización remota para el colegio para conectarse con esto? No sé cuánto es extensivo o si alguien puede conectarse con su computadora.

[Speaker 1] (41:07 - 44:01)
Así que intentaré responder ambas preguntas al mismo tiempo. En términos de seguridad, con un sistema de seguridad hosteado en el sitio, no solo tienes los problemas de seguridad física, con que está ubicado aquí en el campus, que se relaciona principalmente con desastres naturales, sobrecargas eléctricas, ese tipo de cosas. Pero también tenemos que mantener nuestro propio firewall, tenemos que mantener nuestra propia seguridad para detener los ataques penetrantes que suceden cada día.

Al ir al cloud, transferimos mucha de esa responsabilidad a la oficina que nos ofrece, ¿cierto? Es su seguridad, ellos son responsables de proteger los datos. Y teniendo en cuenta que estas empresas hostan datos para las empresas Fortune 500, somos un pequeño pez en comparación con algunos de sus clientes.

Así que el nivel de seguridad que mantienen es igual, porque todo es parte de su sistema. Y así, el firewall en línea y la protección contra esos tipos de ataques es todavía la responsabilidad de esa empresa. Sin embargo, como con cualquier sistema, una de las formas en que los sistemas en línea son penetrados es a través del aire humano, ¿cierto?

Y así, con, como si tomas mi seguridad, por ejemplo, en este sistema, seré capaz de ver y podría ser capaz de aprobar una gran variedad de transacciones, pero no tengo acceso a las tablas en la parte de atrás, ¿cierto? No soy un programador, no tengo ese tipo de seguridad. Así que esas son las grandes vulnerabilidades, ¿cierto?

Si alguien como ese pierde el control de su información de login, alguien puede entrar en el sistema y te pueden cerrar y te pueden robar, ¿cierto? Y así, esas oportunidades se desvanecen porque tendremos menos personas que necesitan estar conectadas en la parte de atrás, porque se está gestionando remotamente y no estamos haciendo ajustes de programación de nivel alto para el sistema, y así debería ser mejor, pero es imposible eliminar completamente cada riesgo de seguridad. La segunda parte...

Sí, y, y, por supuesto, menos administradores, ¿cierto? Entonces, nuestras personas del frente, ¿cierto? pierden su pasaporte, alguien logra su cuenta, ya están cerrados de cualquier cosa que nos ponga en problemas, porque nadie, ni siquiera yo, como CFO, tendría acceso límite para entrar y derrumbar el sistema, y así, solo hay dos o tres en el campus que tendrían ese nivel de acceso que nos pudiera llevar a grandes problemas.

[Speaker 7] (44:01 - 44:09)
Entonces, la segunda parte era el componente de la infraestructura, ¿qué sería... En caso de que perdiéramos... No sé cuáles son las requerencias de la infraestructura.

[Speaker 1] (44:10 - 44:58)
Entonces, ahora mismo, para que podamos acceder al sistema desde el campus, ¿cierto? Tenemos que crear una red privada virtual y tenemos que tener acceso especial para penetrar el firewall desde el campus con un sistema hosteado remotamente, hosteado en la nube. Si tenemos una gran catástrofe aquí, cualquiera con el computador y conexión a Internet, en cualquier otro lugar del mundo, podría lograr y continuar haciendo trabajo.

Y así, en términos de recuperación de la infraestructura, podemos ir a la siguiente instalación que está abierta y funcionando y de ahí vamos, sin deslizamientos y sin detrasos desde la perspectiva La razón por la que...

[Speaker 7] (44:58 - 45:07)
Si tuviéramos una total fallecidad aquí, podríamos relocarnos a nuestro eventual campus en Mont Belvier, ir a McNair o lo que sea y recuperar donde nos quedamos.

[Speaker 1] (45:08 - 45:20)
En el peor caso, podríamos ir a casa y poder hacer la mayoría de esto desde nuestra casa. Desde nuestra propia Internet de casa, ¿verdad? Así que ese es uno de los mayores beneficios de un sistema hosteado en la nube.

[Speaker 2] (45:21 - 45:27)
Sí, porque tu personal Internet no es el riesgo de seguridad.

[Speaker 1] (45:27 - 45:27)
No.

[Speaker 2] (45:28 - 45:31)
Aún estás accediendo a la información donde está hosteado.

[Speaker 1] (45:32 - 45:47)
Aún estás conectando a su servidor y usando tus credenciales de seguridad para acceder a lo que puedes detrás de su servidor. Así que no importa la conexión de Internet que estés usando. La seguridad no está a nuestro lado, la seguridad está a su lado.

[Speaker 7] (45:47 - 45:57)
No sabía si teníamos que tener una conexión de velocidad más alta. Gracias por clarificar eso. Eso es lo que estaba mirando, cuestión 1.

[Speaker 2] (45:57 - 46:12)
¿Alguna otra pregunta? Gracias por ese informe muy profundo y esperamos su recomendación en diciembre 18. Gracias.

Gracias. Bien, el siguiente tema en la agenda es comentarios públicos. ¿Alguien se unió?

[Speaker 10] (46:12 - 46:17)
Tenemos a Paula Lee para hablar, debería decir.

[Speaker 9] (46:28 - 47:20)
Buenas noches. Soy Paula Lee y es ese momento del año para recordarles de nuestro concierto de Navidad en diciembre 6 a las 7.30 en la PAC. Este es el hermoso material de marketing que hace el Departamento de Marketing para nosotros cada año, como pueden ver.

Les invito a venir. Siempre es un día hermoso. Siempre es una manera muy especial para empezar la temporada de Navidad.

La música de este año es casi cualquier canción de Navidad que haya cantado. En una canción. Y continúa por bastante tiempo.

Pero es música realmente buena. Y Clarence Frank, el director de la Sinfonía, o el director o conductor filharmónico, es también el director de la orquesta con la que canto. Y siempre hace un trabajo increíble.

Así que espero que añaden eso a sus planes para el concierto de Navidad. Gracias.

[Speaker 2] (47:24 - 47:46)
Bien. Pasamos a el siguiente tema. Nuestra agenda está bajo personal.

Agenda de consentimiento. Consideración de nuevos empleados. La Administración recomienda que el Borde apruebe los nuevos empleados como presentado abajo.

Tenemos a la Dra. Laura Lane Worley, la Dra. Kimberly Fontenet, la Dra.

Aurelia Arjona Villareal, la Dra. Jessica Haney y el Sr. Michael Pons.

[Speaker 6] (47:49 - 47:50)
Segundo.

[Speaker 2] (47:51 - 47:59)
La propuesta de la Dra. Hall, ¿no? Segundo de la Dra.

Fontenet. Gracias por la ayuda. ¿Alguna pregunta o comentarios sobre este tema?

[Speaker 10] (48:11 - 48:20)
¿Qué dice? ¿Qué dice? ¿Alguna otra pregunta o comentarios?

[Speaker 2] (48:22 - 49:08)
Nada. Todos en favor, díganme sí. Sí.

No. Nuevos empleados y reposición, reanudamiento, están aprovechados. Siguiente tema.

Nuevo negocio. Consideración de una resolución de castigo para un miembro del Borde del Distrito de Aprendizaje de la Ciudad de Chambers. La Administración recomienda que la Junta autoriza al Presidente y a su designado a presentar la votación y la resolución de la Junta de Regentes, voten por Joey Presnell y Laurie Payton como miembros del Distrito de Aprendizaje de la Ciudad de Chambers.

Votación del Regente Warford, votación del Regente Cotton. ¿Hay comentarios o preguntas sobre este tema? ¿Típicamente se hace cada año?

¿Cierto?

[Speaker 10] (51:11 - 51:12)
¿Algunos comentarios?

[Speaker 7] (51:15 - 51:29)
Bien, gracias. Tengo una pregunta. ¿Tenemos alguna experiencia o qué ha sido nuestra experiencia en el pasado?

John, ¿podrías acercarte? No, con la construcción del milenio.

[Speaker 12] (51:30 - 51:42)
Sí, la construcción del milenio. El director Hanley tenía mucha experiencia en San Jack con ellos. Tenía mucha buena experiencia.

Y hemos tenido ellos aquí por unos cinco otros proyectos, pequeños, con eléctricos. Bueno.

[Speaker 10] (51:47 - 51:48)
¿Preguntas? ¿Comentarios?

[Speaker 2] (51:50 - 52:01)
No escucho ninguno. ¿Todo el mundo en favor de decir sí? Sí.

¿Opinión no? Sí. Tengo una no.

Una no. Así que tenemos siete síes, una no, una abstención.

[Speaker 10] (52:03 - 52:04)
Bien, la moción continúa.

[Speaker 2] (55:13 - 56:09)
La moción sentences por delito fundamental sobre tenentes agiles inherentes con deberes comprobados en las regulaciones 1536 de los derechos humanos de la vida, 1961, de 22 al 2021. La moción continúa. La moción continua.

All right. Hearing none, all in favor say aye. Aye.

Any opposed no. All right. This item is approved.

All right. Next item on the agenda, the meeting of the Lee College Board of Regents on the above list to date after proper posting in accordance with chapter 551 of the Texas government code for the specific purposes provided will recess from open meeting to closed meeting. No action will be taken while the board is recessed in executive session.

[Speaker 10] (56:29 - 56:40)
All right.

[Speaker 2] (56:40 - 56:48)
We're going to reconvene into open session. Last item on the agenda is matters of concern for future agendas. Do I hear any?

[Speaker 10] (57:10 - 57:23)
Are you looking at for a board item for the policy committee to recess? It's just an information session.

[Speaker 2] (57:26 - 57:52)
Okay. All right. I'll make note of that.

I'll make note of that as a future informational report. Do we have any other matters of concern for future agendas? Yeah.

We should have done that. Should have done that earlier. But yeah.

Thank you. Thank you very much. All right.

Hearing no other items for future agendas, we are adjourned.