[Speaker 1] (0:01 - 0:38) Alright, I'm going to call to order this special meeting of the Lee College Board of Regents on Wednesday, April 29th, 2026. We do have a quorum. We have Regents Cotton, Geralds, and Hall. Santana in person. We have Regents Guillory, Warford, Thomas, and Fontenot virtual. Is that right? Is that what everybody else is saying? Yes. Alright, so we do have a quorum. Alright, we're going to move on to our invocation. Regent Cotton, would you please give us an invocation? [Speaker 4] (0:41 - 0:56) Our most gracious God, we thank you for the opportunity to come together and to do the work at Lee College. God, we ask for your wisdom as we go through this day. Help us and guide us, God, to do good for our communities. In your most holy name we pray. Amen. [Speaker 1] (0:58 - 1:15) It is, yes. Open the door. My supervisor closed it, so I'll do it at the board chair's direction. The next item on the agenda is public comment. Do we have anyone signed up to speak? No one is signed up, Mr. Chair. Alright. [Speaker 4] (1:15 - 1:17) Does anybody know about this meeting? [Speaker 1] (1:18 - 2:05) It's posted just like every other meeting. We have people from the public that are participating virtually. Alright, we're going to have one item. I'm going to read the item. If we have questions about this item during discussion, we will go into closed session for that discussion. That makes sense since it's a personnel related item. Alright, so next item on the agenda is consideration of action on recommendation to terminate employee bid contract. That's the whole thing. That's it. So moved. I've got a motion. That's it. That's the motion. That's the motion. Do we name? Do we name the contract? The name is not listed anywhere on what I have. [Speaker 3] (2:07 - 2:10) Well, don't we need to know that information? We don't just... [Speaker 1] (2:10 - 2:11) We don't need to know the name? [Speaker 3] (2:12 - 2:17) I do. Okay. Well, I just thought in case, maybe you don't want to just... [Speaker 1] (2:17 - 2:28) It would be good to have that documented somewhere who were terminating the contract. Yeah, I would think we need to have the name just to make it official. Okay. [Speaker 3] (2:28 - 2:29) Make sure we're not firing Jacob. [Speaker 1] (2:30 - 2:32) Please state the official name of who we're terminating. [Speaker 3] (2:33 - 2:34) Rigoberto Ruiz. [Speaker 1] (2:34 - 3:00) Rigoberto Ruiz. Alright, I have a motion. Did I get a second? Second. Any discussion on this item or questions we'd like to ask of the administration? Can we ask questions in open session? If we're going to ask about the related to personnel, we may need to go into closed session. My question is more general. We are well within the policy? [Speaker 2] (3:01 - 3:02) We are. [Speaker 1] (3:02 - 3:02) Okay. [Speaker 2] (3:02 - 3:25) We have followed all of our protocols in terms of documenting and communicating with the employee, justification and decision to move forward with the termination and have provided the required time for the employee to appeal that decision and to respond. And so we have met all legal requirements for taking this action. [Speaker 3] (3:27 - 3:32) Jacob, did he appeal or respond? No, he didn't. No. [Speaker 2] (3:33 - 3:33) No. [Speaker 3] (3:33 - 3:34) Okay. [Speaker 1] (3:36 - 3:36) No appeal. [Speaker 2] (3:37 - 3:40) No appeal. No response. Okay. [Speaker 1] (3:40 - 3:42) Gina, do you have the option? [Speaker 4] (3:42 - 3:46) Yeah, I just wanted to state what department this employee works for. [Speaker 2] (3:48 - 3:51) The department that the employee works for. [Speaker 3] (3:51 - 3:59) Grant management. Gina, he works for grant management, as well as the debate coach. [Speaker 4] (4:00 - 4:01) Yes, ma'am. Thank you. [Speaker 3] (4:01 - 4:03) I appreciate that. Yes. [Speaker 1] (4:04 - 4:25) Any other general questions on this item? Any other discussion that we need to go into closed session about? All right. We're hearing none. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Everybody Darryl, did I get you? Aye. Aye. [Speaker 3] (4:25 - 4:25) Aye. [Speaker 1] (4:26 - 5:04) Okay. I just didn't hear you. I want to make sure I captured everybody. So that's any opposed? All right. All right. Hearing none. The motion to terminate. Rigoberto. Contract has been approved. All right. Do we have any other reason to go into closed session today? Nope. Nope. Not aware of any. All right. Do we have any matters of concern for future agendas? Well, hearing none, we'll move to the next item, which is adjournment. Thank you folks for getting online virtually. Thank you, Erin and Gina for working us in and Pam and Darryl.