[Speaker 3] (0:00 - 0:19)
I call to order the meeting of the Lee College Board of Regents. We have seven board members present with Chairman Santana and Regent Thomas on Webex with us. The invocation and pledge to the flags will be given by Regent Gina Hilliard.

[Speaker 9] (0:19 - 1:27)
Will you stand with me please? And bow a moment for prayer. Father God, we come to you this evening just thanking you for another opportunity to serve this wonderful community.

We thank you for this privilege that you've given us, God, to be a blessing and to make impactful decisions on behalf of this community and those that decide to choose Lee College as their place of higher education. We thank you for everyone's hands who touches the students, the curriculum, the budget, and everything that goes into making this a destination place. We thank you for all your blessings.

In Jesus' name we pray, amen. You'll join me for the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

And the other flag. We honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible.

Thank you, you may be seated.

[Speaker 3] (1:28 - 1:42)
All right. So before moving to the next agenda item, we have an off-agenda recognition that will be made. And Jacob, you're gonna take care of that?

Mark?

[Speaker 1] (1:42 - 1:51)
Yes, I would like to ask Dr. Carolyn Lightfoot to come forward and introduce our special recognition.

[Speaker 7] (2:04 - 2:21)
There he is. We are so excited to present this special recognition to one of our employees in information technology, and that is no other than Romero Torres. Could you come down, Romero?

[Speaker 12] (2:22 - 2:22)
Come on down!

[Speaker 9] (2:31 - 2:31)
The man.

[Speaker 7] (2:32 - 3:53)
Yes, he is. Romero, when he arrived, took over from Daniel Christie, who was also working in the board. All of the work that goes on in with it, as far as all the software, the upgrades, the cabling, this whole beautiful room that has been renovated, this is the person who worked with the team for all of the technology under the table, things you don't see.

He did all of that. So I'm so proud of all the work he has done, but not only for the board. He's done it for every faculty member, all of the staff that come to him, the president's office on down.

He's done all of those type of things, and we're just so honored for him to be honored, rather, of all of what he has been doing for this college for several years. He does a lot of documentation. He's so good at this, and he also gets the best price when he negotiates with a lot of the vendors that we have coming through here.

So we're really pleased with all of the work that he's been doing, and I want to thank you all for this honor for him. Thank you so much. Ramiro?

Yes, yes, yes.

[Speaker 3] (4:58 - 5:05)
He's just trying to throw me off, that's all. Okay, always our favorite agenda item is the student spotlight.

[Speaker 1] (5:06 - 5:20)
Thank you. I would like to ask Brianna Daly to come forward and introduce the student spotlight. Brianna is a faculty member in English and Humanities, and she is also the Honors Program Coordinator.

[Speaker 4] (5:21 - 7:33)
Hi, thank you. I'm really glad to be here tonight. I was originally gonna have a second student with me.

I'm not sure what happened. I was just talking to her earlier, and so I hope nothing bad has happened. But anyway, I have one student here with me.

And as President said, we're here on behalf of the Honors Program. Back in April, I had the opportunity to take some students to a symposium sponsored by the Gulf Coast Intercollegiate Consortium to present some of their work. I'm gonna let her describe the experience in her own words, but I thought I would just give you just a little bit about my perspective as an Honors Program Coordinator and why this is a valuable experience.

The students, in their honors courses, often have to do very research-intensive projects, and these symposium are a way for them to take those projects that they've done, either in their courses or through honors contracts, and further develop them for an audience outside the college. So these conferences and symposia, they follow, there's usually one in the fall, one in the spring. They follow a very traditional academic format where they're organized into panels to present their work.

So the students do additional work, again, to extend these research projects, these presentations, and to prepare to give them publicly at these conferences. So it's a good way for them to quantify some of their experiences in the Honors Program. It's a good way for us to keep them engaged with academic work, and especially the kind of level of research and things like that, that many of them will do when they go on to university, and as many of them want to, on to grad school or professional school.

So I have, I believe I have a slide that has a picture of our students, but I'm not sure, there's no mouse. How do I navigate?

[Speaker 12] (7:34 - 7:48)
Helper. There's some, oh.

[Speaker 4] (7:49 - 7:51)
Oh, is it in here? Oh, well, all right.

[Speaker 12] (7:52 - 7:54)
Thank you, Dr. Torres.

[Speaker 4] (7:55 - 8:56)
Perfect. Okay, perfect. So we had five students that went with us this last spring.

Their names are up here, as well as the courses that they prepared their work for, and the courses they prepared their work for and their mentors, mentoring faculty, right, on these projects, and then I have a picture of us, as well, the students and the mentoring faculty there at the conference. Oh, can you guys not see it? It's not on that screen.

Okay. There it is. Okay, so there we are at the symposium.

Again, this was back in April, after they presented their work. So I'll go ahead and invite Alora up here. Alora was one of our students that went with us, and she presented some work that she had done for our human condition seminar that she further developed for this symposium.

So she'll just talk a little bit about her experience.

[Speaker 12] (9:02 - 9:04)
Hi. Oh.

[Speaker 6] (9:05 - 11:45)
I'm Alora Vell. I went to the symposium with them in the spring. My presentation was over a study on a film that we analyzed for class.

I studied further into how body language was used in that film to convey relationships. The symposium was one of my favorite memories from this year. I had so much fun doing the actual research in preparation for the symposium.

It was a lovely way to combine things I was passionate about with academics, which is something I value a lot. I had amazing mentors throughout the entire process. Dr. Ward and Dr. Ramirez, respectfully, gave me amazing advice for how to structure my speech in my presentation without it going over the time or sounding too wordy. Professor Daley was an incredible help on actually submitting my abstract to be accepted for the symposium. At the symposium, it was really intimidating at first. It felt super professional, way out of my league.

But while I was there, I got a lot more comfortable. I got to witness some presentations before I gave my own presentation, which were relevant to things I was learning in my government honors class. So I was able to apply other students' research from going to the symposium to what I was working on in my classes here.

I also got to see some of my amazing friends present their work, and it was lovely to support them in their academic careers as well. Giving my own presentation is one of the proudest moments of my life. My mom came up from work just to come see me present my work.

I'm the first generation to come to college, so it was super important to her to see me present. After presenting my work, I had somebody come up to me and tell me that my work resonated with them personally and their experiences and their lives, and it made me realize that the work I was doing here at college, even as a first-year student, mattered so much more than just me or just my class. It mattered to those around me.

It gave me a lot of confidence. It's why I feel comfortable speaking to you guys here today. I was very shy.

I still am a little. And it was the most incredible experience. It took me from feeling like there was no real meaning to my work outside of personal meaning, which is still valuable, but you know, it's not, I wanted to progress further than that, and it made me feel like I had a voice and it mattered to more than just this college.

It was a lovely experience.

[Speaker 12] (11:47 - 11:47)
Oh my.

[Speaker 4] (11:53 - 12:05)
So I'm happy or Allure is happy to answer any questions if you have any for either of us. Questions? Great, thank you so much again.

[Speaker 12] (12:36 - 12:37)
Thank you.

[Speaker 3] (13:12 - 13:46)
Okay, on to disposition of minutes. We have several copies of minutes in this. Building committee meeting on May 20th, 2026.

Special board meeting on May 20th, 2026. Audit and Investment Committee meeting May 21st, 2026. A budget workshop meeting May 26th, 2026.

And the board meeting from May 26th, 2026. Are you in motion? Motion made by Regent Bontenau and second by Regent Geralds.

All in favor? Aye. All opposed?

[Speaker 12] (13:53 - 13:55)
Having trouble with this little mouse thing.

[Speaker 3] (13:58 - 14:15)
Okay, now we have the report of the chair. That's me. I don't have a report so we'll move on to building committee report.

All right, and the policy committee?

[Speaker 8] (14:15 - 15:13)
The policy committee did meet on June the 4th and we covered as many policies as we could within probably an hour and a half. They're listed, we're gonna be voting on a number of these if anybody has any particular questions. But it ranged from facilities construction to student rights to registration and courses and core curriculum.

There's a host of things that were covered. Nothing really outstanding other than some spending authority. That particular item, CM, I believe, is going to be pulled for pending further evaluation from the administration and that's raising the spending authority or how contracts are procured across the campus.

And so we'll be looking at that further. So does anybody have any questions or I guess we can do it when we go to vote on them. Thank you.

[Speaker 11] (15:14 - 15:52)
And the Audit Investment Committee, Judy? We were trying to schedule to meet in July but we have had tons of scheduling conflicts with everybody so we will not be meeting in July. But the quarterly report will go out to the entire board like it usually does.

We just won't be. Yes, but we were going to try to meet in July and that's not working out. So we will not be meeting in July.

You will get.

[Speaker 12] (15:56 - 15:57)
Or to the president.

[Speaker 1] (15:59 - 16:10)
Thank you, Regent Warford. If I may, I would like to request personal privilege. I have a special guest here today.

My lovely wife, Tamara Atkin, has joined us, if you would stand.

[Speaker 5] (16:10 - 16:11)
Aw. Aw.

[Speaker 1] (16:19 - 23:09)
I only noticed that she was nodding off a few times during the budget presentation, so. Very excited that she could be here today. For my report, I'd like to start by talking about the progress that we're making on our Workday ERP implementation.

We are still in full green status, much to the credit of some very dedicated individuals. This is, again, as I mentioned before, a huge lift and we have folks that are really going the extra mile to stay on time and on target with this implementation. We are currently in the process of testing finance and HR.

Now, there are hundreds of tests, specifically 731 different tests that we have to run as part of the implementation process. 185 of those tests have been completed, 481 are in process, and we still have quite a few that we haven't even started yet. The biggest challenge that we have is still resource availability, specifically our, our biggest concern is burnout over time.

And luckily, our finance and HR people are gonna start to get a break here fairly soon and we're gonna hand the ball off to Scott and Janina and their folks. But it's, it's progressing well and we're almost to the point where we're going to start doing tests and demos with general campus stakeholders. So the changes that are taking place on the finance and HR side.

So we're very happy about that. Next, a brief update on the Facilities Master Plan. As you know, we met last week and did a thorough review of the information gathering stage.

We are now solidly into the ideology stage and this is a lot of fun. This is where we get to dream big and talk about everything that we would love to do at the college if we could. There are two major discussions that are ongoing right now.

First, we have a discussion planned to discuss restacking and reallocation of space. As you know, as we add positions and we expand, some people in one department are in one building and new people are in a different building and we kind of just pick people wherever we have open space at the time. So we're looking at potentially restacking and trying to essentially defragment the college and also looking at some of the classrooms that are not in use and whether or not it makes sense to potentially remodel some of those spaces to provide the space that's going to be more used.

That is an important activity that will need to take place before we can really determine if there's any space that we would like to take on. Remember from last week, Mueller Hall is the first building on that list and so depending on how this goes, we might be able to accomplish that sooner rather than later at a very low cost to the college. The second meeting that we have scheduled is future programming priorities.

So we have our current course offerings right now and the programs that we're supporting. The point of this meeting is to really delve deeply as an administrative body into the types of programs that we think that we would like to bring online over the next 10 years and those programs that we may decide to terminate based on low enrollment or low demand within the community. So for example, we know logistics and transportation is a huge need, far, far from meeting all of their demands.

So that's going to be one that may be high on the list. We have some current programs that have struggled to maintain enrollments and are not part of the three primary industries that we're trying to serve and so they may be selected for elimination at some point in the future. But this will help provide that long-term vision for what types of spaces we would believe.

So it's very exciting and we're very happy with the guidance that we've been getting from Pfluger and bringing the teams together and having these robust, meaningful conversations. Next, I'm happy to announce that we were awarded 289,000 over the next two years from Houston Endowment for an Early Teacher Pathways Grant. And what this grant will do is provide funding to help our students who are in our teaching program persist and continue on to other institutions, specifically Sam Houston, where they will continue to receive support and services from the college to ensure and help them to be successful as they continue their pathway after leaving Lee College.

These connections are incredibly important for us. We wanna continue to develop these relationships with universities around our region and having some grant funds to help us really grow those programs is a huge win for us. Thank you to the hours of work that Dr. Priscilla Sanchez put into this. We're very grateful for this work and this is a big win for the college. Finally, I would like to do a little bit of show and tell on the development of the property at Barbers Hill. So here is a picture of the full site.

You can see that they've done most of the cement work for the driveways and the parking lots, which is exciting to see that coming up. This is central plant, so walls are coming up. There's even some roof in place.

You can see that they're installing the large machinery to handle utilities in the new facility, very exciting. And here you can see that they've started laying foundation footings for the building. Now, all of the rain, you can see that most of those holes are full of water.

Oh, there we go. So you can see that our footings are all full of water right now because of all the rain. So this is causing some delays on the construction of the main facility, but it's very exciting to see the work that's taking place.

And as far as I've been told, we haven't seen such significant delays because of weather that were off target for opening fall of next year. And that concludes my report.

[Speaker 3] (23:11 - 23:17)
Exciting. Okay, report of Lee College resignations and or retirements, Jacob. Jacob.

[Speaker 1] (23:19 - 25:09)
Right. Some sad news. A professor, William Gamble, passed away unexpectedly after 19 years of service.

He was beloved at the Lee College community. He will be sorely missed and our condolences go out to his family and those that he's left behind. He truly will be missed.

We also had Anna Wallach, a completion coach who resigned after one year. And my friend and colleague, Greg Goines is finally retiring. I'd like to say a little bit extra about him, particularly because of his importance to the board.

So we went many, many years without any internal audit services, and Greg was hired to fill that role. In the almost two years that he's been here, he has really helped to define and build our risk and rating standards, our auditing templates, and repositories of records. He has helped implement a risk control and audit training.

He's completed 13 audit reports, eight audit memos, identified 61 risk issues, and helped implement, together with the department, 70 action plans. The value of internal audit is significant to the college. He has created a fine legacy for the institution, and we're excited to see where that goes from here.

And of course, Greg, we wish you all the best of luck in retirement. Thank you. Thank you.

Finally, Casey Apatry, our assistant basketball coach, resigned after three years with the team.

[Speaker 10] (25:11 - 25:52)
Thank you. Could I just add, Bill is a big deficit to this college. And at his funeral, they talked about how much he loved his students, and that he could have retired a number of years ago, but he still loved teaching students.

He was a man of integrity. He was a man that loved the Lord, and loved his family, and loved his students. I just didn't want to let this night go without honoring, we don't have men like this in this world that much anymore.

And he was that man.

[Speaker 3] (25:58 - 26:00)
Yep, you're it again, financial report.

[Speaker 12] (26:01 - 26:01)
All right.

[Speaker 3] (26:04 - 26:06)
Very busy, I know, very busy guy.

[Speaker 1] (26:16 - 30:04)
So Renee apologizes that she couldn't be here tonight. She is caring for her mother, who's recovering from surgery, and we wish her and her family all the best. This will be a short update, considering the information that I shared already in the budget workshop.

As you can see, our cash position continues to remain strong with the bulk of our cash, and values still held in reserves and investments. In terms of our summary of financial statements, we now have collected nearly all of our revenue for the year, with the one exception being the final payment from our state appropriations. Now that's collected in June, this is as of the end of May, so you'll see that post at the end of this month.

And essentially, we will be slightly ahead of target on our total revenue collections for the year. In terms of our expenses, we are slightly under budget. We've been right on target with salaries and benefits all year long, so that adjustment that we made last year in our allowance for vacancies was a very accurate estimate.

Our operating expenses are still under budget at only 58%. And when we look at the potential surpluses, it's gonna be due to coming in under budget on our operating. So here you can see that our projections, based on what we have coming up for the next two months, is gonna put us at 240,000 under budget on our expenses, but we're looking at an increase in revenue above projected revenue of $1.6 million. The vast majority of that coming from district taxes, as I mentioned, we've done a very good job of collecting outstanding balances from prior years, which is why that. All in all, approximately $2 million in expected surplus at the end of this year. Of course, that's going to be very important as we look to try and address some key one-time issues coming up, and I'll go into that in much more detail next month when we present our budget.

Our facility projects are moving on well. We're making very good progress on our ADA phase two. Those projects include things like repairing sidewalks and fixing some of the unevenness and trip hazards that we have all across campus.

It's great to see that work being done. It will never be finished, but we're making it better as fast as we can. And then the capital projects that were allocated last year are well underway.

I mentioned this last year, that the money that's left over here is primarily what facilities will be using for capital projects next year. Since we're not going to get all the way through the remaining $6.8 million between now and the end of it. Our restricted funds are progressing as expected.

As you can see, federal grants and contracts is still netting about a half a million dollars in unrestricted funds for the institution. So we've done a very good job of managing those funds and utilizing grants and contracts to the greatest benefit of the institution. And with that, I would answer any questions you might have.

[Speaker 3] (30:11 - 30:13)
David, do we have anybody sign up for public comment?

[Speaker 13] (30:14 - 30:17)
We do, Madam Chair. We have David Isaac.

[Speaker 5] (30:25 - 32:16)
Wanna say I appreciate the comments being made from the board regarding Mr. William Gamble. He was an esteemed individual who really loved his trade, really loved working for the school. And I'm just now hearing of that news and I apologize, but thank you for putting respect on his name.

Excellent instructor, had a profound impact on my life. Looking at the CV for Mr. Jacob Atkinson on this, I don't see anything on here that would highlight or accentuate an aspiration to be a college president. What I have seen though is this board's inability to listen to its citizens, its students, and its faculty.

I know that we had great reporting over by Ms. Phoebe and the Baytown Sun recently. Our chairman addressed the faculty and it made me think, wow, we like to shoot guns and ask questions later and then explain ourselves to faculty as if we ever had that sort of relationship with them. I was told we weren't supposed to talk to faculty as board members, but that's cool.

I'm glad we're explaining ourselves. I'm glad something so important happened and now for us to go to faculty and explain ourselves why we decided not to even accept applications. Do we not want the best around here anymore?

Do we not have a hundred years of history, a hundred years of tradition of having a search committee? We started this skid when we replaced the great Pete Alfaro by an internal decision to appoint his replacement, in my opinion, no offense to anyone in particular. We showed a refusal to listen to the citizens in that situation.

We allowed Dr. Villanueva to spend over 25,000. I do say allowed because all we did is force her to pay it back. We wouldn't even know this in the general public had not it leaked.

[Speaker 13] (32:18 - 32:19)
You wanna do some more of that?

[Speaker 5] (32:23 - 33:31)
That sort of slap on the hand led to much turmoil here on this campus. I'm sure that wasn't talked about at that faculty senate meeting. Individuals like Ms. Cella Taccone was basically harassed, in my opinion. You try to take protected FMLA leave and attempted to be fired that day. It's disgusting. See a lack of oversight in several places.

I can't talk about it all here at once. My time's been limited. You'll be hearing about that later.

It would have cost you zero dollars, though, to accept the application. It would have cost you zero dollars. We got a $1.6 million surplus. You could have spent $40,000 of that to put some dignitaries in here. But no, you don't wanna hear from the citizens. You wanna appoint them among yourselves.

You wanna try to bully non-incumbents that wanna join this governing body. And now you wanna replace Dr. Villanueva's replacement with someone without a PhD. If I was Dr. Walzers, I would have walked right up out of here, too. I would have resigned. I would have felt like my face was spat in. Anyone on this campus, man or woman, with a PhD.

[Speaker 3] (33:37 - 34:09)
Hey, thank you very much. Moving on, items of action. Personnel, we have a consent agenda.

Struggling, because I don't have a mouse up here. And I'm a mouse person. And I can't get it open.

All right, consideration of new hires. The administration recommends that the board approve the new hires as presented below. I hear a motion.

[Speaker 12] (34:12 - 34:17)
All in favor? Oh, we don't vote. No discussion on consent.

[Speaker 3] (34:18 - 34:19)
All in favor?

[Speaker 12] (34:20 - 34:20)
Aye.

[Speaker 3] (34:21 - 34:55)
And all those opposed? Consent agenda is approved. Next, we have new business.

Consideration of adoption of the 2025 Harris County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan. A mouthful. A mouthful.

Consideration of adoption of the 2025 Harris County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan. The administration recommends that the board approve the resolution adopting the 2025 Harris County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan.

[Speaker 1] (34:59 - 35:13)
So prior to opening this up for vote or discussion by the board, I would like to invite Thomas Quinn to the pulpit to present a short presentation explaining what this is and what the board will actually be voting on.

[Speaker 2] (35:21 - 44:29)
Good evening, Board of Regents. I'm Tom Quinn. I'm the Executive Director of Public Safety.

This evening, I will be presenting a summary of Lee College participation in the 2025 Harris County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan. Very long. And I'll also be requesting approval of the resolution of adoption of this plan.

First, I just want to begin with describing what a multi-jurisdictional hazard mitigation plan is. It is a regional plan, usually led by County Emergency Management Office or Council of Governments, where local jurisdictions and special purpose districts can participate and develop their portion of the regional plan. The purpose is to identify risks and to develop proposed mitigation projects that may be eligible for federal grant assistance as required by the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000.

The plan must be updated and resubmitted for approval every five years. Little bit of background. So Harris County did lead the regional partnership effort and sent out invitations to jurisdictions to participate in March of 2024.

42 jurisdictions participated in Harris County. And in February, 2026, it was reviewed and approved by FEMA and the state, Texas Department of Emergency Management. There is a list.

This is the list of the 42 jurisdictions. As you can see, most of them are municipalities. There was just a handful of educational jurisdictions that participated.

So Lee College decided to take advantage of the opportunity and participate in this program. So we went and met all the participation requirements. We started with the letter of intent.

We submitted that to participate. We attended workshops, meetings, calls. We solicited feedback via email, through a survey.

We provided all the information that Harris County needed for us to complete our plan. We submitted mitigation projects to the plan, to the project. And then we developed an annex that goes in the plan.

So our portion was completed. So the last step is to seek approval for adoption. So this process really began, it took about a year.

So it started in 2024 in the summer, and it took about a year for all the jurisdictions to get their plans together and to submit them to Harris County. After Harris County, then three months later, they took everybody's plan, consolidated it, and submitted it to the state and FEMA. And then finally, in February of this year, FEMA approved the plan.

So it was a long process. It was a lot of work. So this is the Lee College Hazard Mitigation Planning Team.

I'm the point of contact. The alternate is Chief Williams, the Director Chief of Security. And then we had a lot of assistance from our Safety and Security Committee.

So they reviewed all the drafts. They helped with the list of mitigation projects coming up with the list. So it was a group effort for Lee College.

These are the hazards evaluated. So FEMA, for this grant, federal mitigation grants only allow funding for these type of hazards. So natural hazards, and then you have your technological hazards or human cause or non-intentional hazards.

This is where the funding is focused on. So as far as active threat hazards, that is not included in the hazard mitigation funding opportunities. That is a separate grant that we hopefully will be pursuing in the future as well.

This is our hazard ranking list and rankings. And as you can see, of course, hurricane, number one, right? It's high.

And so we ranked our list according to our incident history. And then we coordinated with local Office of Emergency Management and Harris County and made sure that our lists were comparable. So we aligned them with their lists.

Benefits of participating. So the immediate benefit is to maintain that grant eligibility. That's the immediate benefit.

The other ones is to help us identify our vulnerabilities and prioritize improvements to enhance campus resilience and emergency preparedness. Any investments that we make would support future costs and it'll support uninterrupted educational operations. So pretty much what we're trying to do is reduce our long-term risks.

And of course, we wanna demonstrate responsible stewardship of public resources. So many, many benefits to participating in this plan. So when the notice of funding opportunity becomes available, and that's usually after a state declared disaster, that's when usually the funding becomes available.

We can apply for the projects, whatever mitigation projects that we have on the list, we can apply for that funding to fund those projects. And the projects just like backup generators, emergency operations center, equipment, safe rooms, storm shelters, the list just goes on and on. So what we did was, and I know we have some projects, we have generators that facilities have been working on, but this could also support facilities with that funding as well.

The only thing we can't fund is vehicles. So they made that clear. So outside of generators and radios, we cannot fund vehicles.

These are some of our high priority projects identified under critical infrastructure. So we have generator trailers, for example, utility protection improvements, network under technological resilience, we have backup server capabilities, network security enhancements. So these are some of our high priority projects that are in the worksheets in our plan.

We actually have a total of 20 projects that we submitted. This is kind of our wishlist. So we've had one of the larger lists from all of the jurisdictions because I wanted it to be in there just in case we needed it.

So I put as many as we could in the plan and we had the safety and security committee kind of help us do this and review it and come up with projects. So the worksheets are in the plan that they provide more details for the proposed projects and why it would help us reduce risk. So in the plan, it actually explains why we need these items.

In the exhibits, I only provided our portion of the plan because the regional plan is over 2000 pages long. It's two volumes. So if you do want to look at all of the jurisdictions, you can go on the readyhairs.org website and all of the volumes are there for the public to see. The financial impact, there's no cost for adoption, right? So the benefits are to maintain that eligibility for FEMA grant funding. It supports future grant applications.

Grant applications, they are competitive. So you got to write a good grant project. And then the position for college, it positions a college for cost sharing opportunities.

So usually the cost sharing is 75% federal, 25% the jurisdiction. And it helps reduce future disaster losses. So today we're requesting approval of the resolution to adopt the regional plan.

Adoption, the important note, the adoption does not authorize construction projects or spending. It keeps Lee college eligible for future mitigation funding and it supports future resiliency projects.

[Speaker 12] (44:33 - 44:36)
That's all I have for you. If you have any questions.

[Speaker 3] (44:42 - 44:52)
So we need to vote on moving forward and approving this mitigation plan. Do I hear a motion? Regent Gillory moves to.

[Speaker 5] (44:53 - 44:53)
Second.

[Speaker 3] (44:54 - 45:00)
All? Okay. All those in favor?

Aye.

[Speaker 12] (45:01 - 45:01)
Aye.

[Speaker 3] (45:02 - 45:32)
Those opposed? Okay, we have approved. I'm not gonna say all the words again, but hazard mitigation plan.

Thank you, Thomas. Thank you. Okay, consideration of approval of updates to the board procedure manual.

Someone brought me a mouse. I'm so happy. Thank you, whoever it was.

I appreciate it. Now I can read it easier. The administration and board policy committee recommend that the board approve the proposed updates to the board procedure manual.

Do I hear a motion?

[Speaker 13] (45:33 - 45:34)
So moved.

[Speaker 3] (45:34 - 45:46)
Second. Regent Hall and made the motion and Regent Gerald seconded. And all those in favor?

[Speaker 12] (45:47 - 45:47)
Aye.

[Speaker 3] (45:48 - 46:30)
All those opposed? And so that will be approved as well. Updates to the board procedure manual.

Consideration of adoption of board policy revisions for local policies. Administration and board policy committee recommend that the board approve and adopt the revisions to local board policies as presented and recommended by Texas Association of School Boards, update 50. Weston?

Made the motion. Weston made the motion and Fontenot seconded. Any discussion?

All those in favor?

[Speaker 12] (46:31 - 46:31)
Aye.

[Speaker 3] (46:32 - 47:21)
Opposed? Opposed? Local policies passes as well.

Consideration of approval of lawn care services contract renewal. Administration recommends that the board authorize the president or his designee to negotiate final terms and approve the contract renewal year five with Bertolo Consultants, Inc. Amount of $411,371.08. Okay, how does Gilbert do this? Let's see. Regent Fontenot made the motion and Regent Hemsel? Were you?

Oh, Regent Cotton. Somebody said second.

[Speaker 8] (47:21 - 47:24)
I made the motion. I made the motion, somebody said second.

[Speaker 3] (47:26 - 48:19)
Okay, we have a tie. Regent Cotton gets the second. Congratulations.

All right, is there any discussion? Regent Anderson? And all those in favor, say aye.

Aye. And those opposed? All right, the contract renewal for the lawn care services passes as well.

Okay, the next item we are going to take care of that after executive session. So, the meeting of the Lee College Board of Regents on July, no, this is June 18th. After proper posting in accordance with chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code for the specific purposes provided, we'll recess from open meeting to closed meeting.

No action will be taken while the board is recessed in executive session. Do I say, we're in recess.

[Speaker 12] (48:21 - 48:21)
There.

[Speaker 3] (48:48 - 49:01)
The closed meeting will adjourn and the board will reconvene into open meeting. We're gonna go back to our last action item which was consideration of employment of Jacob Adkin as president.

[Speaker 12] (49:05 - 49:14)
Oh, shoot. Had a hard time connecting up with Karen.

[Speaker 3] (49:24 - 49:32)
Okay, so the motion, I mean the agenda item is consideration of employment of Jacob Adkin as college president. Do I hear a motion?

[Speaker 8] (49:32 - 49:56)
Yes. I move that the board name Jacob Adkin as Lee College president. I further move that the board authorize the board chair or designee to negotiate final terms and enter into an employment contract with President Adkin consistent with the terms discussed in closed session and to take necessary and related action.

Second.

[Speaker 3] (50:00 - 50:09)
We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor?

[Speaker 12] (50:10 - 50:10)
Aye.

[Speaker 3] (50:12 - 50:18)
Those opposed? There are none. Congratulations.

[Speaker 12] (50:18 - 50:18)
Congratulations.

[Speaker 3] (50:19 - 50:19)
Woo!

[Speaker 12] (50:36 - 50:37)
All right.

[Speaker 3] (50:39 - 50:56)
It's a great day. Yeah, I'm looking for my mouse. Okay, there you go.

Matters of concern for future agendas. Are there any? Okay, hearing none, we are adjourned.