Operations Council
- Some break-ins over the last few months; being handled by Operations and LRPD
- Facilities/Maintenance Updates: Reminder to only drive in from Stadium parking lot when visiting (prearranged with Operations) campus; expired access cards will continue to work as keys to enter buildings; in-person Health Ed classes resumed following two COVID exposures reported and program quarantined for 14 days; mailroom operational and processing mail once a week
- Technology: equipment is still available; needs should be reported to area deans
- Sustainability Plan being implemented; Office of Sustainability is now in Operations – renamed to “Office of Operations and Sustainability”
- Reviewed Accreditation Standard III, with assignments being emailed out to specific council members

Student Success Council
- Received updates on Online Student Petitions and Accreditation
- Jen LaFlam, Pam Chao, and Nick Daily shared current progress and future projects related to the Professional Development Plan
- Robust discussion on employee retention
- LGBTQIA+ and API Project Teams have had preliminary meetings with the Research Team to develop research questions and date timelines

Institutional Effectiveness Council

Associated Student Body
- Nick attend meeting and presented on equitable decision making tool; adopted
- Discussed creating canvas shell to use as training tool
- Passed resolution which would add non-voting position to Student Senate and CAEB for students who don’t meet requirements to be in student government
- Currently exploring the idea of merging Student Senate and CAEB into one board 

Classified
- Recently concluded elections; results forthcoming
- One-day new senator training now spread out over four days via Zoom

Academic Senate
- Program pathway committee recommendations on consent calendar
- Adopting RESPECT principles then move into equitable decision making tool
- Five different policy recommendations to District to review with an equity lens
- Looking into ways to apply equity to syllabi and curriculum
- New CSU GE Area F

Managers
- Some success with contacting students via email to set up time to talk; one half to one third of managers have connected with at least one student; now cold calling non-respondents
- Trying to better understand student struggles
- Managers getting Starfish training

- Talked about how we might walk through using the tool; helpful to have an example
- Have used in PES and can operationalize using it in ELT
- SSC is reviewing at next meeting
- Discussion in Area Deans 
- Make tool more user friendly with rubric
- Revisit next month at ELT

- Met first milestone of collecting evidence piece
- District team has first meeting last week
- Jamey Nye now overseeing Accreditation for district
- First draft of function map – identifies whether item is district, college or shared responsibility
- Still some ambiguity around how District is proceeding in Standard III related to facilities, fiscal, HR and technology; VPAs set four meetings, one relative to each section
- VPA’s met w/HR today; HR would need to review each substandard and provide evidence
- Quality Focus Essay topic to be identified – a considered topic is implementation of HomeBase Pathway Communities
- Might be helpful to get groups together to assist in gathering evidence, provide some assistance in where to start finding evidence, provide some guidance
- Faculty can reach out directly to Bill via email
- Sometimes recipient of questions doesn’t have any idea of the context of the message
- An hour of next SSC meeting is dedicated to answering questions and providing assistance

Discussion postponed to November meeting