[Speaker 2] (0:00 - 0:17)
College on Thursday, August 20th, 2026 at 6 p.m. We do have a quorum, and our first item on the agenda after the opening is invocation and pledge to the United States flag, pledge to the Texas flag, led by Regent Pam Workman.

[Speaker 9] (0:21 - 0:45)
Would you bow with me, please? Our most gracious Heavenly Father, we thank you for all the blessings that you shower on us every day. I hope that you will bless this academic year.

Be with administrators, faculty, staff, each and every one of them.

[Speaker 12] (0:52 - 0:53)
Cabinet, as they make decisions.

[Speaker 9] (1:06 - 1:14)
All this we pray in Jesus' name. If you'll put your hand over your heart and repeat after me.

[Speaker 11] (1:15 - 1:28)
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.

[Speaker 9] (1:29 - 1:30)
And now the Texas flag.

[Speaker 11] (1:31 - 1:41)
On the Texas flag, I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state, under God, one and indivisible. Thank you.

[Speaker 2] (1:42 - 1:50)
Regent Warford. Next item on the agenda is student spotlight. We have our cheer team who's kicking us off.

[Speaker 12] (2:04 - 2:05)
Good evening, thank you for having us.

[Speaker 5] (2:06 - 6:37)
We really appreciate the time and opportunity. One second, I'll get to the middle. Okay, perfect.

So I'm here to talk about two things. One, about community engagement, and then also about athletics with the upcoming volleyball season, if y'all will give me a second. But I would love to spotlight my team real fast.

This program has started three years ago, and just to see where it's grown in that we're starting our third year, just to see where the program's grown since I first got here, and we started from the ground up, to see them go from nobody knowing what cheer was or everything, to now we're doing all these events and all these community engagement activities and cheering at the games and stuff like that, it warms my heart and blesses my soul.

So again, thank you for the opportunity for us to start the cheer program and us being here and help support the school. But for community engagement, I would love, and this goes for everybody in the audience too, when we do these big community engagements, like parades and other events, we love to have not just the cheer or just the regents or anybody. When we do the big parades, we love to have anybody from Lee College come and support with Lee College.

Please wear your Lee College stuff, come with us. So the upcoming events that we have currently are we have the McNair Campus Ice Cream Social, Thursday, August 27th, from five to seven. If you like ice cream, that's perfect.

What's really awesome is our Performing Arts Center. It has a state-of-the-art new movie-like camera and system and everything like that, and projector, to where now, during September and October, during the fall semester, Thursdays, they're gonna be showing movies, I believe, for a very, very discounted price, not just for Lee College, but for the community as well. With those, the Performing Arts Center is showing on Thursday, September 17th, The Dark Knight, and then they are also showing Pride and Prejudice on Thursday, September 24th.

All the movies will be at 7 p.m. on a Thursday. So if you ever need a second to go out, I know President Hackney, I know he's ready to get back into his formal wear to join that Pride and Prejudice. What also we have, we have Paint the Town Purple for all timers.

I have not been told the specific, but it will be in September for Performing Arts Center. For the next movie then, it is Psycho, showing on Thursday, October 1st at 7 p.m. For Baytown, this is where I would love to have the community involved, if you guys would like to. The Baytown Walk to End All Timers is Saturday, October 3rd.

Lee College already has a team together that's gonna be there running a booth and walking, and I believe emails will be sent out about how to join the team if you're interested in joining the team. We also have the TV Fair, the Trinity Valley Expo Fair and Roto Opening Day Parade, Wednesday, October 21st. That's typically at 10 a.m., a good excuse to get out of the office, go have fun with that. Lee College Trunk or Treat is Tuesday, October 22nd, 6 to 8 p.m. Bring the kids, bring the family. Great time. We always have a very, very good time there.

And for right now, Barbers Hill Fall Fest, Saturday, October 24th, 11 to 2 p.m. Awesome time to get engaged. Bunch of different stuff. Haven't been told what the theme yet this year, but one year was Candyland, another year was movies.

It's always a fun theme, bunch of food. If you like good fair food, that kind of stuff, please come. It's awesome, good time.

If you wanna come work the event with me and get all nice and hot and sweaty, it's gonna be awesome. Trust me. Also, if I can take a little bit more of y'all's time, I would like to talk a little bit about athletics, speak on behalf of Coach Wade.

He's gave me permission to talk a little bit about athletics, about the volleyball season. Volleyball is now in full swing with the tournament actually that Lee College is hosting right now. So after this, we're gonna be running over there and cheering the game with the rest of the cheerleaders.

So I will make this quick because I need to get there. We have the tournament from today, 6 p.m. is the game. Then we have a game tomorrow, 2 p.m. Tomorrow night at 6 p.m. And then Saturday at 2 p.m. I do believe that you do have to pay for a ticket at the door for the tournament. That is cash only. I'm not sure. I believe it's 10 bucks, maybe 15 for the weekend pass for Friday and Saturday.

But usually during the season, all games are free for Lee College and the community. And so all the games are gonna be on Tuesdays and Thursdays for this year mostly. And yeah, we'd love to just see y'all out there and just kind of support.

And honestly, to get y'all super, super excited, we got some giveaways. So we have volleyball schedules right here. If the chair doesn't mind real quick, giving a volleyball schedule out to the Regents real fast.

And then I have some giveaways to throw out to y'all too. So, but I gotta hear some cheers. I gotta hear y'all get a little excited for the volleyball team.

So please, if y'all can, please come out to the volleyball. The girls, the volleyball team has worked super hard. Coach Wade has worked super hard to try to get everything ready for athletics for this year.

The volleyball team is looking super, super strong. And we'd love to see those crowds, those stands packed, seriously. And all the themes are really, really fun.

Tonight's theme is luau. Tomorrow night's 6 p.m. game is Heroes Night, where we're celebrating our first responders. And then 2 p.m. on Saturday is our Summer Slam. So we have all food specials up at the concession stands. It's a really, really good time. And I hope to see y'all there.

[Speaker 12] (7:36 - 7:36)
Woo!

[Speaker 8] (7:53 - 8:23)
Hey, Drew. Yes, sir. I will say, I had the privilege of joining the cheerleaders at the Juneteenth at the parade we had in McNair.

Unfortunately, it rained and we were soaked. And I was so impressed with those young ladies. Staying with it as we got drenched that day.

I know when they got back to the school, they were all dripping wet as we were. So I know how hard they work. And they're very, very, very talented and very much appreciated.

[Speaker 17] (8:23 - 8:28)
Thank you. What does that mean that you joined the cheerleaders? Like, did you cheer with them?

[Speaker 5] (8:28 - 8:55)
Oh, he was excited. He was throwing stuff out. He was right there.

You should've seen the pictures. He was having a great time. Watch.

He's got it. Boom, natural. There it is.

And again, if I can say, thank you again. Thank you, Regents. And thank you, President Atkin, for showing your support coming to the parades.

It does mean a lot to us seeing y'all out there. And I know it means a lot to the community seeing y'all out there with the parades too. And if it's not been said enough, seriously, thank you for taking times out of your schedules to come support Lee College and the Baytown community and our service area in general.

[Speaker 2] (8:56 - 8:57)
Thank you very much.

[Speaker 5] (9:53 - 9:54)
And now we're scuttling.

[Speaker 12] (9:55 - 10:08)
Thank y'all. Regent Geralds, weren't you a cheerleader here?

[Speaker 16] (10:11 - 10:13)
You basically needed a pole.

[Speaker 2] (10:15 - 11:12)
I know you're a cheerleader. But I've seen pictures and videos of you doing your thing. All right, thank you.

Great, great. The cheer team has had a lot of excitement to the games as well as the drumline. So we thank that program.

All right, next item on the agenda is disposition of minutes. We have the policy committee meeting, July 20th, 2026. Building committee meeting, July 22nd, 2026.

The budget workshop meeting, July 23rd, 2026. And the board meeting, July 23rd, 2026. We'll take all of these together.

Anyone who's read these is welcome to make a motion. Second. I have a motion, Regent Hemsel.

Second, Regent Cotton. Any comments, corrections, or discussion on any of these minutes? Hearing none, all in favor say aye.

Aye. Any opposed, no. The minutes as I read are now approved.

All right, we'll move to report to the chairman. I do not have a specific report. We'll move to building committee report.

Regent Monte.

[Speaker 15] (11:13 - 11:18)
Yes, we did not meet this month, but we do have a meeting scheduled for September 16th.

[Speaker 2] (11:18 - 11:22)
All right, thank you. Policy committee, Regent Hall.

[Speaker 13] (11:22 - 11:27)
Did not meet this month. We have a September 30th meeting scheduled to be our next meeting.

[Speaker 2] (11:29 - 11:31)
Audit investment committee, Regent Geralds.

[Speaker 9] (11:31 - 11:33)
We did not meet this month, but we will meet.

[Speaker 2] (11:35 - 11:39)
Great, thank you very much. We'll move to a report of the president.

[Speaker 12] (11:39 - 11:40)
President Adkin.

[Speaker 1] (11:52 - 17:30)
Thank you. So, as you know, this week is convocation, and we have had several fantastic events this week. I would like to give a short update and review from our Monday meeting.

This year, we are adopting a one-year slogan of We Are One. As we transition this year, Lee College under new leadership, I've looked and I've been thinking about ways to unite the college more succinctly. Not that it was necessarily anybody's fault, but we've become very siloed, and we needed to spend more time seeing each other and working together and building a level of camaraderie and trust and friendship to help us be more successful.

And so, We Are One, and you're gonna see this a lot this year, starting with shirts that I have for everybody. So, we're focusing on the concept of every role matters, every interaction matters, every person matters. Many roles, one mission, one Lee College.

As part of this branding opportunity, we would like to relook at the image and the brand of Lee College. We want to relook at our visual identity, represent our story, and refresh our brand in a way that reflects who we are as an institution and what we hope to achieve in the future. I'm so glad you're pleased, Regent Hillary.

So, we have Barbers Hill Branch Campus coming on next year, and shortly after that, you know, if we continue to move forward with our Facilities Master Plan, I don't think it'll be too long before we're ready to start a capital campaign. And so, the idea of rebranding the college right now is critical from a timing perspective. We want our new brand, our new image, our new logo to be updated, clean, and fresh before we invest in signage, before we invest branding and advertising to the community.

As we start to work on building that community commitment that we will need to eventually hopefully get a bond passed. So, under the We Are One logo, we have several different marks that are approved to use. You'll see these in email signatures, you'll see them on the shirts.

And as part of this effort to celebrate our excellence, we're adopting an Awards of Excellence program. So, each year, the board will select three Board of Regents Award of Excellence recipients. President will select the outstanding faculty, the outstanding administrative staff, and the outstanding classified staff.

And then each of the cabinet members will have a smaller divisional award awarded to individuals within their division. Now, in order to qualify for this, you will have to have been an employee for three years. And you have to be nominated by a coworker.

So, this is awarded separate from the evaluation process. Coworkers will nominate each other through an application process, they will write a letter of recommendation, they'll provide a resume for the individual. And we will be sharing all of those with you as Regents.

You to read and to select your favorite. This is going to help create that unity that we're looking for, as we recognize each other's greatness. How many of us demonstrate on a regular basis?

It will help to both reward good behavior, to encourage active participation, and to let each other know that we're being seen and that we're being recognized. Even for those who don't win, they're gonna be given the opportunity to read the recommendations and report their performance. And so, we're very excited about this, and this will require active participation by the Board.

I'm anticipating that you'll have a lot of these to read, as we come up on this next year. Next, I have some unfortunate news. Alice Mitchell passed away.

She stood up for Lee College for 32 years. I don't know if anybody on the Board knew her, but it was a fantastic asset to the institution. And passed.

[Speaker 12] (17:31 - 17:32)
Your aunt?

[Speaker 1] (17:40 - 22:47)
We're grateful when we have individuals like this in our lives, and she certainly made a difference here at Lee College. Briefly, I have a Mount Bellevue update. Here you can see that a lot of the cement work is completed now, that the foundation work is progressing.

And the picture on the bottom right is the central plant facility. So, work progresses, we're excited about that. It'll be very exciting when we start to see walls come up on the main facility.

Our workday ERP implementation, we're at 40% complete. Our plan at the beginning of this was to be at 44%, so we're slightly behind schedule, about one week, which I feel very good about. As you can see, this continues to move forward thanks to the dedicated work of Finance, HR, and IT.

In terms of the fall board workshop schedule, and I'd like feedback from the Board on this, in order for us to provide the type of information that we need to provide to the Board, it's becoming evident that we're probably gonna need a workshop before every single board meeting. And you can see, we have an ideation update from Pfluger in September, strategic plan update in October, transfer update in November, and that's just the next quarter. So, if you could, please let me know if this particular schedule works for you.

The workshops give us an opportunity to deep dive into particular subjects and then give the Board time to provide feedback and comment to cabinets and to the rest of the college. And I don't anticipate a month, except for maybe in December where we don't. I'm also excited to announce the opening of the campus store in the arena.

So, yesterday was the first day that the store was open. It was a soft opening, it hadn't been announced on campus. And it was an exhibition game, it didn't count.

We had $538 in sales just from the individuals that walked into the arena to watch the game. And so, we're very excited about it. It's been long overdue, having these kinds of products available in the arena during the sporting events is going to help us extend the school spirit and pride in our team and in the Lee College brand.

Make sure you check it out the next time you're in the arena going to one of our athletic events. Finally, after convocation speech, we delivered one of these shirts to every single faculty and staff member that came. And then we took a big group photo.

We're really excited about this year. The spirit, the camaraderie, the participation was excellent. We had more at lunch than we've had in years.

We're excited about the work that we're gonna do. And we're excited to be doing it together as a team. Yes, Pam is here.

She's right there. She was hiding. Let's see, Regent Hall was in here too.

He's right here also hiding. We're so grateful that several of the regents were able to join us for convocation. And I think they'll tell you it's an event worth making time for in the future.

If I could take a couple more moments to mention a few other things. We have the, sorry, scholarship ball is stuck in my head, our gala. So we have the gala coming up in September.

And in the past, there has been an active competition between the board and the cabinet. I'm proposing that we join forces. See if we can't out-raise the foundation board.

So if we are going to do that, we are presently at $4,200 raised by this board. $1,200 pledged by the cabinet. The foundation board is already at 15,900.

So if we're gonna beat them, we've got to get serious about committing some funds and committing some money. I'd much rather work with you than beat you every single year in this competition. So, sorry, what?

[Speaker 2] (22:48 - 22:49)
Okay.

[Speaker 1] (22:52 - 23:27)
We're looking forward to another spectacular gala. And it's time to reach out to make those donations if you're able. Last, and maybe if I could take just a moment of personal preference.

During my speech, I made an offhanded comment about my two married children in Utah vying for my favoritism by being the first to bless me with a grandchild. My son called me last night and told me that his wife is expecting.

[Speaker 16] (23:28 - 23:31)
Congratulations. Congratulations.

[Speaker 1] (23:33 - 23:39)
That concludes my report. That works. He's the favorite.

He wins. All right.

[Speaker 2] (23:41 - 23:55)
Thank you, President Atkin. Any questions on any of his update items? Very much.

All right, we'll move on to informational reports. First up is report of Lee College resignations and or retirements. President Atkin.

[Speaker 1] (23:56 - 24:38)
Yes, we had five individuals on this list. Jordan Macias worked as a transfer advisor. He resigned after one year of service.

India Elliott worked as a faculty coordinator in our adult education literacy program. She resigned after one year of service. Pete Medina worked as a faculty member in welding.

He resigned after five years of service. Retired, I'm sorry. He retired after five years of service.

Helen Ortiz, our assistant controller, resigned after six years of service. And Manuel Garcia is resigning as our grant accountant after 12 years of service.

[Speaker 2] (24:42 - 24:51)
All right, any questions for President Atkin? All right, next we'll move to our employee satisfaction survey report. Dr. Scott Bennett.

[Speaker 4] (25:12 - 34:47)
All right, good evening. I will say that this started with 14 pages of notes and it's now down to five, so I will be as brief as possible. Though I doubt it.

Good evening, Board of Regents, President Atkin, members of the audience, anyone who is watching from afar, and hello, Graham, Brooke, and Audrey. Please be in bed before I get home. Thank you for giving me the time to present to you today.

I'm thrilled to share with you the results of our Spring 2026 College Employee Satisfaction Survey. I'd like to share with you what it tells us, where we're strong, and where the data, or should I say our employees, say we have work to do. This survey was administered by Ruffalo Noel-Levitz RNL, a national research firm that runs the same standardized instrument at colleges and universities across the country.

And that matters for two reasons. First, it's a validated, reliable instrument, so not something we wrote ourselves, and two, it lets us benchmark against peer institutions nationally. It was fielded institution-wide in Spring 2026.

From February to March, confidential and voluntary, there are no names in it. We had 323 respondents, 47.6% from staff, 37.5% from faculty, and 14.9% from administration, which is a good cross-section of the college's more than 950 employees. So let's start with it.

84% of employees say they're satisfied with their employment here overall. 96% say they would recommend Lee College to a friend or family member considering enrolling. 93% believe the work that they do is valuable to the institution.

Before I get deeper into the strengths and I will cover the gaps reported by our employees, I wanna show how this survey isn't just measuring morale in the abstract. It's really measuring whether our employees are living our strategic plan, Vision 2028. So first, when we ask employees what matter most to them, their answers track almost exactly what we desire with Vision 2028, retaining students, helping them into careers, strengthening transfer pathways.

These are exactly where we have a lot of details in our strategic plan and also where we have funded objectives. And it's not a coincidence. This is a college and our employees whose priorities match the institutional strategy, not just what we state our values are.

Second, 92% of our employees agree they're encouraged to look beyond stereotypes to support student success. That's our plan's own language. And our employees believe that they are here to serve all students, all of our students, because we have students that come from so many different backgrounds.

On culture and engagement, the numbers are also strong across the board. 93.5% feel personally responsible for a caring, supportive learning environment. 92.7% say the institution treats students as its top priority. And 94.8% consider themselves highly engaged at work. The employees of this college believe in the mission and care deeply about our students. I wanna kind of reframe the discussion here using a structure the college has already committed to in Vision 2028.

Caring community goal is built around five specific standards, safety, courtesy, wellbeing, efficiency, and growth. So what I have here are survey measurements against each one of these standards. So safety comes back strong.

Thank you, Tom. 88% agree it's prioritized and addressed proactively. Think if we had this survey a couple years back, that number might be different.

Courtesy is solid. 80% agree people are treated fairly and that colleagues welcome differing views. Wellbeing is good on paper at 82%, though it's one of the widest important satisfaction gaps we have, which I will cover soon.

Efficiency is moderate, around 73% on whether resources and procedures support the work. Post-workday implementation, I believe those numbers will be different. And growth is one standard that stands apart and it's weak by a greater margin than the other four.

Can't give you only the good stuff. I have to give you all of it. Vision 2028 states that employees will be recognized for their contributions, valued as people, and given opportunities for professional growth and career advancement.

That's a specific promise we've made in writing and it's really two promises, recognition and advancement. On recognition, 69% agree that if they do great work, they'll know it's recognized. It's not a crisis number, but this is well below the 90s we saw on culture and engagement.

On advancement, it's weaker. Only 58% agree they have opportunities for advancement. 55% say advancement is very important to them, but only 23% are very satisfied with it.

Of every measure tied to the strategic plan, this is the widest gap we have measured. This is related, but I feel like it needs to be separate. Pay is the single widest gap in the entire survey, wider than advancement.

85% of employees say pay is very important to them, only 25% are very satisfied with it. Now, I do wanna flag this for context. In our strategic plan, we don't have a compensation specific target anywhere in it.

This is an area where employee sentiment is very clear, but it's not something that's in our current strategic plan. One more area tied to a different part of the strategic plan is institutional effectiveness, which depends on employee input actually shaping decisions. So I looked at this from two different directions, peer-to-peer and top-down from leadership.

Between departments, 64% agree there's effective communication. 66% agree suggestions are used to improve the institution, and 64% agree employees are involved in planning. From leadership, 68% agree leadership shares information regularly, and 64% agree there's good communication between leadership, faculty, staff, and administrators.

Again, they're not crisis numbers, but they're a consistent story from five different angles. The loop between the employee voice and institutional decisions isn't fully closed in either direction. On retention, 81% of employees say they do not plan to leave in the next six months, 19% say they do, and 40% say they've considered it at some point in the last six months.

And I'll show you how that breaks down by employee groups next. When we split retention numbers out by group, a pattern shows up. Staff report considering leaving at a higher rate than faculty or administration, 48% compared to 33 for faculty and 34 for administration.

Staff also show the widest gap between how much they value pay and how satisfied they are with it, and the lowest agreement that advancement opportunities exist, 54% compared to 64% for faculty and 61% for administration. Faculty show the strongest results of any group across the board, the highest satisfaction at 4.32, the highest engagement, and the lowest attrition risk. So looking at the bigger picture, 84% are satisfied with the college, 96% would recommend Lee College, 95% are highly engaged, and 93% say the work they do is valuable to the institution.

From a foundation standpoint, that's strong. The areas I've flagged, advancement, pay, and retention risk among staff are real and they are specific. And that's valuable because it signals an area that our employees believe we should focus.

So overall, the workforce of this college believe in its mission, is living vision 2028, and has told us clearly where they want our priorities to be. I felt like that was a good mic drop moment, but I have one more. And so I saved this last on purpose because I feel like we'd lose the plot if I gave you this one.

When we look at the items, so benchmark data, right? When we look at the items that compare ourselves to the nine other colleges in the data set, 65 metrics in total, Lee College came back significantly better on 31 of them, worse on none of them, and right in line with the national average with the rest. And with that, that concludes my presentation.

[Speaker 2] (34:48 - 34:54)
Thank you, are there any questions for Dr. Bennett?

[Speaker 4] (34:55 - 34:58)
And the entire 44 page report is available on our website.

[Speaker 10] (34:59 - 35:09)
Now that you have the data and you all have clearly heard from the faculty, staff, administration, like what are the next steps? Like, what do you do with it to address the concerns?

[Speaker 4] (35:10 - 35:17)
So I would like to kick that over to President Atkin, because I think actually looking back, there are several items that point to this directly.

[Speaker 1] (35:20 - 37:55)
So I kind of break it down, our priority needs into two categories. So one is the concept of transparency, communication and coordination, and the other is compensation. Now, if you remember several months ago, prior to the cuts imposed by the state, through appropriations, we had numerous initiatives in place to try and start to address some compensation issues.

We had initiatives related to our student workers, we had initiatives related to equity increases for employees who are graded below average or below where they likely should be. And then we had initiatives to increase compensation for adjunct faculty, which would also increase faculty overload pay. We had to pause all of those initiatives due to the budget cuts.

And so we recognize that there's more that we need to do, but some of this comes down to available funding. But those will continue to be top priorities for us as an institution to address, particularly our lowest compensated employees. With regard to the communication between administration or the executive team and the rest of the employees to try and address some of those figures that were typically in the 60s regarding confidence and communication, we have taken significant effort to improve that communication, both in terms of participation in the assemblies, in transparency in our communication during events like convocation, during our monthly communication that goes out to the employees, summarizing what's happening in this meeting and what's being planned and the approach that we're taking as an institution. Keep in mind that this survey was conducted prior to my tenure as leader of the institution.

And so I think that if we were to poll many of the employees they would already feel like we've made pretty significant strides in terms of how we communicate and listen and coordinate between administration and our employees. And we will continue that pattern moving forward. So we are actively trying to address our deficiencies in this and have been for several months now.

[Speaker 2] (37:58 - 38:20)
I have a question and a comment. You understand pay is a matter of finances, but advancement is a little more difficult. Everyone can't be a director, everyone can't be an executive director or a vice president.

So how do we address advancement opportunities that employees feel they may not have?

[Speaker 1] (38:22 - 39:42)
Your point, not everybody can be a director or a VP. There was a fairly common sentiment before that when advancement opportunities were available at the institution, particular individuals were selected and advanced and there wasn't really the opportunity for competition or for application. I addressed this publicly in my convocation speech.

The new standard for the institution is when we have an open position, we will post and we will recruit. It is a benefit to our internal candidates when they go through a competition process and they demonstrate that they're the most qualified candidate for that position. And so we want to ensure that everybody feels like they have the chance for advancement opportunity and that we are being fair and transparent in the process.

Beyond that, to your point, not every individual will be given those opportunities here at the college. And for those individuals who find themselves stuck in a position where they can't advance, we understand and will support them and support them as they.

[Speaker 12] (39:47 - 39:48)
That's a tough one.

[Speaker 2] (39:49 - 40:01)
Okay, any other comments or questions? Very much, thank you, Dr. Bennett. All right, next item on the agenda is our annual safety and security survey report.

Mr. Quinn.

[Speaker 12] (40:14 - 40:15)
Good evening, Board of Regents.

[Speaker 3] (40:17 - 51:22)
I'm Tom Quinn, I'm the Executive Director of Public Safety. I'm gonna give you a brief summary of the annual safety and security survey results and how it compares to previous years. It was great to hear from Dr. Bennett that the employee survey showed a strong safety score. That was great to hear. A little bit of a background on survey. So the Texas School Safety Center requires colleges to assess their campus safety climate once per year as part of a three-year audit.

The first year audit ended in 2024. The next one is due next year in September, 2027. It measures perceptions of campus safety, security, emergency preparedness, and emergency communications.

The results helps identify strengths and areas for improvement. The percentage in the summary represent the students and employees who selected strongly agree or agree. Little bit about survey information for this year and previous years.

So the survey population was taken from the spring and summer 2026 enrolled students and all employees. And this happens every year during this time. It's anonymous online survey consisting of 30 statements using the strongly agree to strongly disagree scale.

The survey period is from July 1st to July 30th. So it's one month. Distributed electronically through the Lee College email.

And then there's reminder emails sent every three days during this period. Survey participation from 2023 to 2026. As you can see of overall responses rate has increased to the highest level at 7.7%. So response rate continues to increase. There's been a significant increase in employee participation. However, there's been a significant decrease in student participation. So we need to do more outreach with this.

And we are looking to move the survey to April before graduation so we can capture more responses that way. Overall results. So 24 out of 30 survey questions showed improvements from last year.

The overall positive trend observed across nearly every major survey category. The greatest improvements were from those categories, emergency notification system, emergency procedures, campus alerts, evacuation route information, crime reporting and safety input opportunities. The perception.

So we have one question is question number 10 on the survey. It's kind of the only negative worded question in the survey. It says individual safety is a major problem.

It did decrease from 44% in 2024. To 38% in 2025 to 34%. So that's fewer.

So that indicates that, that decrease shows the improvements are affecting overall perceptions in safety and security. So in this summary, I grouped the 30 question survey into four themes. The first one is safety and security improvements.

And it showed significant positive trends from last year. So we're looking at the first one is, students and employees feel safe on campus during the day. So that was the response.

They feel security is visible on campus. They feel that security will respond in a reasonable amount of time. And they feel that security measures on campus are adequate.

And those are things like our security cameras and our emergency call poles. And they feel that campus is well protected from crime. And the primary contributors are, we increased the number of security cameras on campus inside the buildings.

We increased our security presence. We improved maintenance of all of our red phones and our emergency call poles. And then we implemented our employee wearable pentacle arm badge program.

The second theme is emergency preparedness. So students and employees feel that emergency alerts are timely. They feel that emergency procedures are made available to them.

They feel that there is a reasonable notification system in place. They feel that the college is prepared to handle emergencies and they feel that the college has adequate resources to assist during emergencies. Improvements are due to, you know, improvements in navigator alert systems, sending out more informational emails to employees and students.

We got new equipment. We got new public announcement speakers inside the buildings. New lightning detection outdoor warning siren on campus.

We updated all our emergency procedures guide and made them available to students and employees. Third theme is reporting and communications. So student employees feel that crimes would likely be reported.

They feel that building hazards would be reported as well. They feel that they can contact appropriate personnel regarding safety concerns and hazards. And they feel that procedures exist for reporting crimes.

So there has been improvements and we did add that report of safety concern and hazard form for anybody to fill out anonymously, students and employees. As soon as we get that concern or hazard, we go investigate it and take care of that hazard. There's also, you know, of course, all of our reports that are in our complaint grievances and concern reporting form links.

And we just increased outreach in this area. The fourth theme is facility improvements. The key improvements here are students and employees feel that campus buildings are well-maintained.

They feel once a hazard is known, it is corrected in a reasonable amount of time. They feel that the campus is safe, secure, and well-maintained. And they feel that evacuation route information is clearly posted inside buildings.

Contributing factors here are building and infrastructure improvements from facilities, all the sidewalk repairs that have been happening this year. We did update the evacuation maps last year inside the buildings and we improved response. There's an improved response to reported maintenance issues.

So those maintenance issues are being taken care of a little bit faster. Now the areas for improvement, these are the lowest scoring questions, and this is consistent throughout the years. Campus lighting.

So student employees feel that there is not sufficient campus lighting. They feel safe walking through the campus at night. So that was a low percentage.

They feel that public daily crime log is available. They feel that drills are conducted in buildings regularly. That scored low.

And they feel that local responders are included in that drills and the relationships are disclosed to students and employees. So our planned actions and facilities have made quite a bit of improvement to campus lighting. And I don't know if John is in here, but they completed that lighting audit assessment.

They added tons of, right? There you are. They added tons of light, a lot of lights to the buildings, a lot of lights.

They eliminated the timers to the lighting, and now they're web-based controls. And then recently they just trimmed all the trees, which is gonna help with the lighting on campus. So as far as the daily more evacuation and emergency drills, so there we did hire a full-time safety specialist that's gonna help me start conducting those drills regularly starting in September.

We're gonna try to do two buildings per month. And then we're gonna include, of course, our local fire station when we do our fire drills. We're gonna try to have them there when we do those drills.

Increased awareness of the annual security report and daily crime log. They are on the webpage as of last year. We just need to make people aware of it.

We need to do more outreach. It is there. We just need to make that known.

And just promote emergency preparedness and training and awareness. Recommendations are continue investing in security visibility, emergency communications, facility improvements, safety education and outreach. What we do need to focus on is increasing that student survey participation.

So that's what we're looking about, moving that survey to April. Improved campus lighting. So facilities has done quite a bit this year.

Hopefully we get a higher score next survey year. Conducting additional drills. We're gonna be starting that in the fall.

Expand first responder exercises. We're gonna include first responders in those drills. And we're gonna promote our annual security report and daily crime log.

And increase awareness in emergency procedures. In conclusion, our 2026 survey results demonstrated positive progress. So 24 out of 30 survey areas have improved.

We had the highest overall response rate this year. The strongest improvements were in emergency preparedness. There is increased confidence in security and improved campus maintenance.

We're gonna continue to assess the lighting and the nighttime safety concerns. And then we're gonna have more campus drills and we're gonna engage students a little bit more. And of course, we're gonna do outreach and awareness for all available safety resources.

That's all I have for you today. Any questions?

[Speaker 10] (51:24 - 51:43)
For regards to the safety and security improvements, basically the response time and campus protection, how involved is our chief of police like vested in this? And are we equipping them with everything that they need if those are our lowest things? And that's big to me.

[Speaker 3] (51:43 - 52:07)
He's very invested in this. So he is part of the survey committee. So he is aware of the results.

And we are working on improving our vehicles so we can respond faster when needed. So there is improvements in places, but yes, very aware. Yes, sir.

[Speaker 9] (52:08 - 52:17)
Thomas, is your presentation from Monday available like on the website anywhere or is there, could you share that with our board?

[Speaker 3] (52:18 - 52:18)
Yes.

[Speaker 9] (52:19 - 52:20)
Several of us saw it.

[Speaker 3] (52:20 - 52:21)
The convocation presentation.

[Speaker 9] (52:22 - 52:22)
Right.

[Speaker 3] (52:24 - 52:35)
I believe they're gonna share that, right, with everybody. And then, yeah, we'll definitely forward it to you. It was all the safety updates for this year.

[Speaker 12] (52:38 - 52:39)
Comments, questions for Mr. Quinn?

[Speaker 2] (52:42 - 52:56)
Thank you very much. Appreciate it. All right, next item on the agenda is our financial report.

Ms. Woodruff, we'll see if you get an applause after your presentation.

[Speaker 6] (53:04 - 56:24)
I'm going to provide you a financial report on July 31st financial results. Overall, the college is maintaining a strong financial position. Revenues are over the budget, expenses are being managed, and we are projecting a positive result for fiscal year-end at August 31st.

Our cash and investments remain strong. We have 27.6 in operating funds, 51.7 in board reserves, 2.4 in other funds, which is construction funds. A total of 81.7 in total cash and investments, which does include the land held for investment. Here we have the financial results as of July the 11th month. Our revenues are 87.9 million, 101% of the budget. Expenses are at 73 million, or 84% of the budget, giving us a net revenue and expenses of 14.8 million. Here, this is where we see, where we project to see where we're at August 31st, which is just in a few weeks. This year's quarter five. We're looking, we're projecting at revenues being 88.7 and expenses at 84.6, netting a positive result of 4.1 million. Revenues over budget by two million and expenses under budget by two million. Ability projects, we have one active project that is ADA phase two. And we have a budget remaining of 1.3 million and we paid 179,000 in expenses in July. Capital projects, we started out the year with a 9.6 million budgeted. We have 6.7 million remaining as of July 31st and were submitted 291,000 in payments for projects in the bookstore, which is the Lockers Information Tech. That's the, ah, hold on.

The Half-Life's classroom expenses. Facilities was repairs and maintenance on elevators and roof and furniture purchases and emergency management is the continued work on the surveillance cameras. It funds 22.1 million in revenue, 21.6 in expenses, netting to 472,000. There's a deficit for the federal grants that will be booked possibly as a receivable or received in the month of August, if not the beginning of September. The funds that we have to draw down from the federal government.

[Speaker 2] (56:32 - 57:03)
Any questions for Ms. Woodruff? Thank you. All right, there we go.

Bigger applause than the others received. All right, next item on the agenda is public comment. Do we have anyone signed up to speak?

We do, Mr. Chairman. We have David Isaac. Mr. Isaac, come on up. Let us get the timer set up. All right, anytime you're ready.

[Speaker 13] (57:16 - 57:18)
All 16 Harris County justices.

[Speaker 7] (57:25 - 1:00:09)
That's right, Judge Joe Stevens voted for John Coffey to not ever serve as a guest judge, ever. You heard it from his mouth as a primary source. He can no longer serve as a guest judge for his unethical behavior.

If you ask Lucia Bates what sort of unethical behavior she had to endure through him, if you ask this very campus, if you ask the Democratic Party, if you ask anybody in Baytown, including your Rotary Club, Mr. Chairman, which by the way, like I suggested, is it truth? Is it fair to all concerned? Is it really fair to the basketball team that you named that basketball court after a corrupt judge when he only gave you $10,000?

When Pete Alfaro just passed and was replaced without a vote by the people, you decide to name this basketball court after a corrupt judge. Misfeasance from this campus, from this chairman, from this leadership. Malfeasance, nonfeasance.

Nonfeasance is when you don't do anything. Misfeasance is when you make a casual mistake and malfeasance is when you do something on purpose. The president walking off with $25,000, that was misfeasance.

The president harassing employees and y'all doing nothing about it for months, that was misfeasance. Malfeasance, naming that court after Don Coffey. And nonfeasance.

Mr. Chairman, you told me to meet with the president February 2nd that morning. I brought it to the attention of the whole world. 14 out of the 15 of the debate team members are underage kids.

One month later, AI porn comes out. Underage AI porn. And the new president, Akins, you know what he said to me when I went to his building?

He said, they weren't gonna change anything. Misfeasance, nonfeasance, and malfeasance. I'm bringing the heat next election cycle for sure.

Some of y'all gotta go. There's a problem here at Lee College. There's a cancer here at Lee College.

We're dying. We're misspending our money. $25,000 this president walked away with.

A slap on the wrist? Did it deserve a slap on the wrist? 25,000 is only what we know.

Where is the document that says fraudulent activity detected? Fraud. Leaked from your board that you wanna hide and you wanna silence me.

You can get loud with Don Coffey at a Rotary meeting, but I can't speak with confidence. That's too much for you during a budget hearing. A budget hearing that needs to include giving Don Coffey's $10,000 back.

I had to pay for people.

[Speaker 2] (1:00:10 - 1:04:06)
All right, next item on the agenda, items of action. We have under personnel, we have a consent agenda. Put it up here.

Consideration of new hires. The administration recommends that the board approve the new hires as presented below. I'm gonna read these off.

Jessica Aguirre, faculty and instrumentation. I'm gonna assume Mr. Pham, faculty, developmental mathematics. Michelle Banusky, advisor recruiter at the Huntsville Center.

Brett Bozeman, faculty, government and history at the Huntsville Center. Thomas Burke, faculty, mathematics at the Huntsville Center. Brittany Bustos, faculty, developmental English at the Huntsville Center.

Dr. Justin Dykes is faculty in English, Huntsville Center. And Max Lanham, faculty in science at the Huntsville Center. Got a motion from Regent Gillory, a second from Regent Geralds.

Any questions or comments on this item? Hearing none, all in favor say aye. Aye.

Any opposed, no. All right, motion consideration of new hires is approved. All right, moving on to new business.

Consideration of contract between Windham School District and Lee College for educational services, materials and supplies, and support of post-secondary education programs, serving students who are incarcerated in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The administration recommends that the board authorize the president or his designee to negotiate final terms and approve the contract between Windham School District and Lee College for educational services, materials and supplies, and support of post-secondary education programs, serving students who are incarcerated in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Got a motion from Regent Hall, second from Regent Cotton.

Comments or questions? This is an annual contract that we have with Windham School District. Um, I'll just read out, we're all looking at it, but for the audience, the contract provides a maximum of $780,240 in state funding.

It's an increase of $103,714 from the last year. Okay, any other comments, questions? All right, hearing none, all in favor say aye.

Aye. Any opposed, no. All right, the contract between Windham School District and Lee College is approved.

Ahem. Item on the agenda, consideration of contract renewal with Carisoft or Information Security Operations Center. The administration recommends that the board authorize the president or his designee to negotiate final terms and approve the contract with Carisoft R240303 Omnia in the amount of $326,829.60. Got a motion from Regent Gildery, second from Regent Warford. Any comments or questions on this item? Hearing none, all in favor say aye. Aye.

Any opposed, no. All right, contract with renewal with Carisoft is approved. Next item on the agenda.

Consideration and review, excuse me, of the 2026 ad valorem tax and tax return anticipated collection rate certification. The administration recommends that the board receive and approve the certification of the anticipated ad valorem tax collection rate 2026 for Lee College District. Got a motion from Regent Warford, second from Regent Fontenot.

Any comments or questions on this item? We're certifying an anticipated amount, is that?

[Speaker 1] (1:04:07 - 1:04:19)
You have to remember that in order for us to calculate the no new revenue rate and the voter approval rate, we have to have an adopted collection rate that we use for that calculation. That's what the board is adopting here.

[Speaker 12] (1:04:22 - 1:04:26)
It is. All right, thank you.

[Speaker 2] (1:04:26 - 1:05:24)
Any other questions or comments? All right, hearing none, all in favor say aye. Aye.

Any opposed, no. Motion's approved to, on the certification of the anticipated ad valorem tax collection rate for 2026. All right, next item.

Consideration of ordinance and resolution adopting the Lee College District Operating Funds Budget. The administration recommends that the board approve the ordinance and resolution adopting the Lee College District Operating Funds Budget for fiscal year 26, 2027. Have any, is there any proposal on this or?

Or presentation or? Okay. All right.

All right, we got a motion from Regent Hemsel, second from Regent Fontenot. Are there any comments or questions on this item?

[Speaker 1] (1:05:27 - 1:06:39)
So I just want to make a quick comment. The expenses projected in the budget are exactly the same as we discussed in July. The only difference is we received certified numbers from Chambers County, which increased our expected collection via ad valorem taxes by 450,000.

You remember we were proposing expenses in excess of revenues at the time. With that increase in values, this allows us to cover our projected expenses and allows us to put about 150,000 of funds into our reserve account, not our reserve account. Our discretionary account.

We still do not have certified values from Harris County. Those are not projected to be received until September 1st. However, we do need to adopt a budget before 831 or the budget from last year will automatically be adopted as the budget for this.

And so we are presenting it as we did in July with the addition of the additional tax revenue due to valuations in Chambers County. No other changes.

[Speaker 8] (1:06:42 - 1:06:49)
So we're still anticipating the tax rate to be the same. We're not moving it up or down?

[Speaker 1] (1:06:49 - 1:07:09)
That's correct. So 0.18706 will continue to be the exact same tax rate next year. We ask you to vote on that later, right?

We do. But that's what you're going to recommend it. That's what we're recommending.

And that is what will be presented in September unless the board elects to adopt a different tax rate.

[Speaker 2] (1:07:09 - 1:07:12)
That rate is the basis for this budget on the revenue side?

[Speaker 8] (1:07:12 - 1:07:13)
That's correct.

[Speaker 2] (1:07:14 - 1:07:16)
Which we typically do every year, right?

[Speaker 8] (1:07:16 - 1:07:49)
And Mr. Chair, the last 10, 15, 20 years, I have campaigned to lower the tax rate. This year, I believe we're doing the right thing by not doing that because of what the state is anticipating doing to our revenue. So I support leaving it alone.

I'm not going to campaign to lower it this year. And I think we've done a good job preparing this budget and I appreciate it very much. Who was that?

[Speaker 16] (1:07:49 - 1:07:50)
We said no comment.

[Speaker 11] (1:07:50 - 1:07:52)
We said no comment. It looks at me.

[Speaker 2] (1:07:53 - 1:08:00)
I'm looking at you now. No, I'm looking for any other comments, not singling you out. I just happen to land on you when I turn.

[Speaker 11] (1:08:00 - 1:08:02)
All right. Sorry about that.

[Speaker 2] (1:08:02 - 1:08:35)
I'm saying everybody does that. No, Gina was pointing to you when I looked over there, so. I know.

We have had several workshops and I think from the very beginning, the same information was presented. It's been fairly consistent. We know the challenge this year has been how to find $2.2 million of reduction. We know it's presented as a one-year event and that we don't want to reduce what we've reduced long-term, but I think what you presented, I think we all understood and accepted, so.

[Speaker 13] (1:08:36 - 1:08:45)
I would like to make a comment. I think the discussion here is reflective of new leadership and our confidence and trust in that leadership.

[Speaker 12] (1:08:47 - 1:08:48)
Thank you.

[Speaker 2] (1:08:49 - 1:09:49)
You have a hard copy to what was in the... Thank you very much. All right.

Are there any other comments or questions on the recommendation to approve the operating budget for fiscal year 26-27? All right. Hearing none, all in favor say aye.

Aye. Any opposed, no. All right.

We've approved the ordinance resolution adopting the Lee College District Operating Fund's budget for fiscal year 2026-2027 as presented. Thank you. All right, next item on the agenda.

This is a first for us. Citing first. All right, consideration of ordinance and resolution adopting the Lee College, Barbers Hill Campus Operating Fund's budget.

The administration recommends that the board approve the ordinance and resolution adopting the Lee College, Barbers Hill Campus Operating Fund's budget for fiscal year 26-27.

[Speaker 16] (1:09:49 - 1:09:50)
So moved.

[Speaker 2] (1:09:51 - 1:10:11)
Got a motion from Regent Orford, second from Regent Guillory. I can hear on this side, but it came in same time. All right, any questions on this item?

The budget was in our package if everyone had a chance to look at it. Anyone have any questions or comments? Have a comment?

[Speaker 1] (1:10:12 - 1:10:59)
So the budget is $9,972,196. If you recall, we receive a contracted amount, contracted amount each year for operations. The balance of the revenue collected through taxes is remitted to Barbers Hill as a lease expense.

And so the lease expense projected for this upcoming year is 7,074,000. Only 2.8 million of the $9.97 million will be used for operations. That number is quite small because we're only looking at a half year of operations at the facility.

In future years, our portion will be $5 million and then that's indexed for inflation going up from there.

[Speaker 2] (1:11:00 - 1:11:05)
We're actually looking at just ramping up for the start of the first full year, right?

[Speaker 1] (1:11:05 - 1:11:07)
Yes, that's true.

[Speaker 2] (1:11:08 - 1:11:08)
Right, I mean.

[Speaker 1] (1:11:08 - 1:11:43)
And it's a little complicated because in the contract, it's based on the calendar year when the taxes are collected but we're budgeting on the fiscal year. And so the 2.8 million that we collect, that we're budgeting this year is what's being collected by Barbers Hill and being spent, which includes that first semester and then don't sync up really beautifully for us. So it's 2.8 million this year and then you'll see it $5 million or more each year after that.

[Speaker 8] (1:11:44 - 1:11:51)
Thank you for that clarification. So will the Barbers Hill Board approve something similar to this budget or?

[Speaker 1] (1:11:52 - 1:12:20)
So the Barbers Hill Board does not approve the budget for the facility. They approve the tax rate and the collection of the taxes because they are not responsible for the expenditure of funds. They're only responsible for the collection of the taxes.

So you will not, this board will not vote on the branch campus maintenance tax rate or the collection. Right. You will only be adopting the operating budget for the facility.

[Speaker 8] (1:12:21 - 1:12:30)
That tax money is coming to us, period. They don't have any thing to vote on that, right? Right.

Automatic.

[Speaker 1] (1:12:30 - 1:12:40)
So once they adopt the rate, we collect the tax, well, they collect the taxes, they remit them to us, we spend them and then what's ever left over gets issued back as a lease expense.

[Speaker 2] (1:12:44 - 1:13:08)
A while since we looked at how the financial structure was. But we're responsible for everything at that campus. Right, there are no Barbers Hill employees on that campus, maintenance, security, it's all ours.

Maintenance employees. Regular maintenance employees. Routine maintenance.

[Speaker 1] (1:13:10 - 1:13:38)
So they are leasing the facility to us. So they only take care of the building in terms of what you would normally expect from a landlord, right? In terms of daily operations and basic maintenance, our team is responsible for that.

But if something breaks, if windows are shattered, if the roof leaks, like in a lease-see-lease-or relationship, we'll contact Barbers Hill and they'll be responsible.

[Speaker 2] (1:13:40 - 1:13:41)
Hello, Orton.

[Speaker 1] (1:13:41 - 1:13:42)
All the landlords.

[Speaker 2] (1:13:42 - 1:13:45)
I was referring to just normal janitorial, regular maintenance.

[Speaker 12] (1:13:48 - 1:13:55)
Yes. Clarifying questions, anything else?

[Speaker 2] (1:13:57 - 1:15:17)
All right, hearing none. All in favor, say aye. Aye.

Any opposed, no. All right, we've adopted the operating budget for the Barbers Hill campus. Great.

Item on the agenda. Consideration of ordinance and resolution adopting the Lee College District Capital Projects Budget. The administration recommends that the board approve the ordinance and resolution adopting the Lee College District Capital Projects Budget for fiscal year 26-27.

A motion from Regent Fontenot, second from Regent Geralds. Now, there may have been a little hesitation. I don't think we've adopted this budget before.

Have we? No. Yeah, not separate from it.

But we understand this is a different budget pool. It's not part of the operating budget. So it makes sense.

I think when we formed the Capital Projects Budget, we formalized it. And that's what we're doing here, right? Yes.

Continuing to formalize it. Okay. All right.

That budget was in the package. All right, we had a motion. I forgot who motioned.

And second was. Okay, so any other comments or discussion on this budget?

[Speaker 1] (1:15:20 - 1:16:03)
So this is funded out of reserves. Now, you'll notice in the financial report that Renee provided, right? We're estimating a little over $4 million in surplus, right?

Two million from additional revenue and then two million from saved expenses on our operating funds. So four million from this will be allocated from those surplus funds from the current operating year. And then 1.1 million is a reallocation of funds that the board authorized last year. Our primary purpose being to address capital needs within information technology.

[Speaker 2] (1:16:07 - 1:16:10)
Topic? A couple months ago, maybe, or a month ago?

[Speaker 14] (1:16:13 - 1:16:24)
For the last several years, that's where the money for these projects has been coming from, has been through the annual surplus. We've directed a portion of the capital budget.

[Speaker 1] (1:16:32 - 1:17:05)
It'll be done after we close the year out. From a cash perspective, right? So in terms of our financial statement preparation and reporting, we go through and close out the end of the year and we record our net income.

Then we move it from our operating fund into our capital fund. This is simply authorizing an expenditure budget so that in August, I'm sorry, in September, IT can start ordering switches and equipment to get their services replaced.

[Speaker 12] (1:17:09 - 1:17:10)
Questions or comments?

[Speaker 2] (1:17:13 - 1:18:59)
Hearing none, all in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed, no.

All right, we've approved the ordinance resolution adopting the Lee College District Capital Project Budget for fiscal year 26-27. Thank you. All right, next item on the agenda.

Consideration of ordinance and resolution adopting the Lee College District Grants and Contracts Budget. The administration recommends that the board approve the ordinance resolution adopting the Lee College District Grants and Contracts Budget for fiscal year 2026-2027. I have a motion from Regent Cotton, second from Regent Warford.

The only comment I'm gonna make is I believe this is the first time we've formally approved. I had mentioned for years that although it's grants and it's money in, money out and no discretion on things, we're still responsible for it and it is still part of our overall operating budget. So thank you for putting this on the agenda for us to formally take a look at tonight.

Anyone have any other comments or questions on this item? All right, hearing none, all in favor say aye. Any opposed, no.

All right, the Lee College District Grants and Contracts Budget for fiscal year 26-27 has been approved. All right, at this time, the meeting of Lee College Board of Regents on above listed 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.

Our item tonight will be to consult with our board attorney regarding legal advice and discussion of Lee College President's duties and responsibilities.

[Speaker 9] (1:19:01 - 1:19:04)
What a great meeting this has been.

[Speaker 2] (1:19:05 - 1:19:26)
I'm gonna go ahead and close this out. All right, the closed meeting has adjourned and the board will reconvene into open meeting. Last item on the agenda is matters of concern for future agendas.

Anybody have anything? Hearing none, next item is adjournment. Everybody have a good evening.