Quincy Reporter

John Wood Community College Executive Committee met Feb. 9.

Here are the minutes provided by the committee:

The Executive Committee met on February 09, 2023, at 1:30 p.m. Attendees were Mr. Bob Rhea, Ms. Diane Ary, Mr. Larry Fischer, Mr. Andy Sprague, Dr. Bryan Renfro, president, and Ms. Leah Benz, executive assistant, note taker.

Mr. Welker joined the meeting for the Enrollment and TIFF topics.

February Board of Trustees Business Agenda items discussed:

Approval of tenure for full-time faculty member Ms. Jamie Chapman

Acceptance of proposal and award WDC expansion audio-visual equipment for the classroom to

Conference Technology RE: $218,538.86

Consent Agenda

Regular Board minutes, bills, travel expenditures

Financials December and January

Grants

Grant application to National Science Foundation for STEM Lab Learning Project

This application is a new request. Several details about this grant continue to be explored. Since the due date of the application is in early March the grant is being presented for consideration at this time.

Grant application to United Way of Adams County for RSVP Support grant RE: $5,000

Personnel

A personnel item was discussed. Tracy Family Foundation presented a proposal to the College for a 50% position funded through their foundation. Their focus is to support students in Brown County 50% of the time for both concurrent enrollment and students at JWCC. JWCC will support the other 50% of the position to develop a model for College and Career Coach in other area high schools identified.

Position

Vacant Vice President of Instruction - The committee discussed the job description/direction of the vacant position of vice president of Instruction reviewing options to proceed forward. Review of the organizational chart and faculty input will be considered.

Discussion items

New leadership team – Executive committee members heard Dr. Renfro’s leadership team will consist of cabinet, extended cabinet with two task force teams. The Extended Cabinet will be comprised of Cabinet with representation from Human Resources, Information Technology and Academic Deans. The two task forces will be formed from key stakeholders across the college and will focus on dual credit and data. Extended Cabinet will meet on the weeks Cabinet are not meeting.

Enrollment Update – Dr. Renfro and Mr. Welker developed a revised data sheet to report enrollment numbers. The data went from 2008- 2023, it shared credit hours/percentage change, tuition and fees, revenue compared to average credit hours, and revenue year over year.

Mr. Fischer noted he would like to see a comparison on Adult Education credit hours also.

Board retreat agenda/date - Discussion was held on a Spring retreat of the Board. Since this is an election year for changing membership on the Board, the Executive Committee proposed to establish a retreat date after the swearing in of the new member. Ms. Ary was asked if she would join this retreat as a past Board member.

Upon discussing with the entire Board, a final date and location will be established. The committee felt a full day for this Spring retreat would be beneficial.

The committee discuss options of a facilitator for this meeting. Dr. Renfro will follow-up with further information.

WDC update – Mr. LaTour provides regular updates of this project. All is moving forward. Walls should be constructed in the next 3-4 weeks.

HLC affirmation – A final report summary was provided to the Executive committee regarding the Higher Learning Commission document. The task force being created will be addressing the recommendations from the HLC. A copy of the summary will be included in the table folder for the entire Board.

TIFF request – Mayor Troup and Mr. Chuck Bevelheimer scheduled a meeting with Dr. Renfro and Mr. Welker where they presented a TIFF request. This was a preliminary meeting for a request downtown. The City of Quincy presented plans for a proposed new TIF district that would in the “Calftown” area of Quincy. The new TIF District would be smaller, in terms of base EAV, than the previous two TIFs that exist in downtown Quincy and is estimated to be approximately $5MM in base EAV.

Other

Other items noted:

West Central Regional trustees meeting – March 17

Career Makeover

An in-service developmental activity for employees March 31

President’s activities – January 1-February 1

Electronic Board policy

https://www.jwcc.edu/about/board-of-trustees/board-agendas-minutes/#executive-committee