Operations Director gave safety update: having one access to campus helps with break ins and homeless.  Turkeys are creating a mess on campus. Homeless are gathering down by the creek. Left over food from the food pantry was delivered to them. Issue at Mather with vandalism of a trailer.

Operations Director reports that IT is moving along in the STEM building; IT has installed a "high flex"  video system in Culinary with 4 cameras so the professor can see what the students are seeing; using nutrition faculty as testers for a pilot system.

Questions were answered about mask signage, air purifiers and "difficult to convert" classes. 

IT Supervisor indicated that ARC experienced a short power outage, but all is well. Global Protect conversion for VPN is down to a list of employees. A reminder to all that temps are using other employee's workstations on campus to connect, so those stations are being used.

ARC has new Integrated Planning System software to assist with Annual Unit Planning; however, the Resources to fund the department's plans needs to be linked to the budget and to meet metrics. 

How do departments increase Full-Time Equivalents (FTE)? The only time ARC receives new FTE is when District allocates it to the colleges. ARC can be proactive by analyzing vacant positions and hiring needs, and transfer FTE between departments based on need. The third way to increase FTE is through grant funding; however, once we hire a permanent employee with categorical funds, we "own" them and must find alternate funding to pay salaries.