Mary Rees: Well, good afternoon and welcome to March 8th,
Moorpark Update. It's the International Day of the
woman to celebrate the achievements of women and
raise awareness of the needs for gender equality.
Just want to welcome you all. Let you know that
our update is being recorded and it is being
captioned. If you're interested in seeing it
closed captioned, please click the CC down at the
bottom of your screen. The webinar, the transcript
will be uploaded onto the President's web site
after the transcripts are completed. We have
a very full agenda for you today. We're going to
have updates from all of the different areas on
campus. Highlighting HERStory, Career Week, A2MEND
Knowledge Bowl, we'll go over the budget for
CARES funding and some, excuse me, some facilities
information. Good morning, Julius. [Julius Sokenu]: Hi everyone, hi Mary,
thank you so much for joining us this afternoon.
Happy International Women's Day to everyone,
particularly to the women and women identified
individuals who serve on our campus and in our
community. We are grateful for you. We appreciate
you. And we value your contribution to the success
of this institution, and most importantly, those
of you who serve as role models to every single
young woman or any other woman of any age actually,
on our campus by your presence. We thank you and
wishing you a Happy International Women's Day. In the
spirit of success, I want to say kudos and thank
you and congratulations to the Women's volleyball
and the Women's basketball teams. Both of those
teams were identified by the three C two A,
California Community College Athletics Association,
as scholar teams, scholar teams. So these are teams
where the members of that team have an a GPA
above 3.0. And we value our scholar athletes for
their work and their success on the field. We also
value them for their work and their success in
the classrooms and all their academic contexts. So
kudos to them. We have our athletic spring two
sports, baseball, beach volleyball, softball, men
and women's track and field coming back to to our
district and to our college, our college in
particular. The other colleges have some different
little bit different sports. And again, this is
our move towards further in person
instruction. And so we are bringing those
spring two sports back. Those are traditional
spring sports for the institution. I also want to
say a very big thank you to those of you who were
involved in quite a few of our programs for this.
This past month, we celebrated Black History Month
with a variety of of thought provoking,
engaging, illuminating and entertaining
programming. We also had assembly member Jacqui
Irwin and Michelle Siqueiros from Campaign for
College Opportunity, who spoke to us and took
questions around AB 705. And then we
had a PRT visit and that PRT visit
looking at two areas of focus: distance education,
as well as our social justice and racial and
social equity work. For those of you who were
involved with all of these activities, kudos and
thank you so much. I want to call out and say very
big thank you to Mary and Linda and Erik for
their work on the PRT visit, to our Black History
Month Committee for the Black History Month work,
for a social justice group three, I believe, I
hope I have the correct group group. If I don't,
somebody just correct me and tell me what it is
in chat, who did the work for the AB 705
and particularly to the BSU students
and their advisors who coordinated the Cornel
West, the Dr. Cornel West conversation. I also
wanted to encourage those of you who are, you know,
who haven't as of yet to get vaccinated,
are the Covid-19 vaccination, you can, you
received an email from the Chancellor on Friday,
and that email includes a link to how you can
schedule an appointment. I got mine last Tuesday and
I'm fine and I'm looking forward to getting the
last one at the end of the month. Again,
please, please, please if you can, do get
vaccinated so that you can not only be healthy and
safer, it's safer, not totally safe, but safer,
and we want to make sure
that we can return to campus and each and every
one of us is responsible for that, for that safe
learning environment. What am I missing? Let's see.
I believe that's mine. That's all of
mine. So I'm going to pass it on to Allison Barton,
who will provide us our Covid dashboard
information. Allison? [Allison Case Barton]: Well, more good news. Our low
level of Covid exposure on our campus
continues. It's the same trend that we're seeing
in, excuse me, the greater community. It
under-represents how much work it takes to do the
the Covid contact tracing, and so once again, kudos
to Dena Stevens and Denise Stephenson, who are
just working their, you know, working their hours
to try to get, to keep us as safe as possible to
get those contact tracing cases, you know, in good
in a good state. And I want to add here just how
pleased I am to get calls and emails from faculty
and staff from deans, just asking how to
continue to make this safer and better for
everyone on campus, to make it a safe learning
environment. It just shows the commitment that we
all have to making our return to campus as safe
as possible and as welcoming and as
comfortable as possible. So thank you so much for
that. And then the last thing based on what Julius
was saying about just really encouraging
everybody to get vaccinated. Know that there is
going to be a soon a part of our app or My VCCCD
the app to upload your shot records,
vaccination records for Covid, but it's not there
yet. Some people have asked me that question and
it's not there yet. But it's going to be an update
coming up soon and we'll keep you posted on that.
I think that's all I have. Just keep up the good work.
And thanks so much. And back to you. [Julius]: Thank you so
much, Allison. We move on to our Vice President of
Business, Dr. Jennifer Clark. [Jennifer Clark]: Good afternoon,
everybody. I'm going to defer most of the talk to
the later on when Mary, Amanuel, and I excuse me,
will be presenting on the CARES HERF budgets and
ideas that have been percolating on those topics.
I just wanted to remind, just let everybody know we
still have about three hundred thousand dollars
left in the first round of CARES for students.
So we'll be coming up with a plan to basically
close that out very soon in the next month or so.
And then I just wanted to I know I sound like a
broken record, but because I had forgotten and
I just remembered because I saw it this weekend,
charge your cyber kids, if you've forgotten, grab
your cyber key and throw it on a
charge, so you don't lose your programming because
the docking stations don't charge those things. So
that's all I have Julius. Thanks.
Julius: Thank you. Mary?
Mary: Thank you, Jennifer and Julius. As we're coming up,
I think we're just past our one year anniversary
for Covid and it's amazing the changes that we
have adapted to. All of you working to keep
students first in all of your decisions and help
them moving forward on their education pathways is
absolutely amazing. As was mentioned by Julius and
Allison, safety of people on campus and safety of
our community, our students, faculty and staff are
foremost. We're doing a lot of planning right now
for what to do over the summer and for fall. And
that is one of our key points, or I should say it
is our key point is to make sure that we're doing
everything we can to provide a safe,
educational environment as we can. We
have a lot of ideas and we're going to be talking
through a lot of them today. So I think it's a
great opportunity to see where some of the ideas
are, as well as to have opportunities for you all
to provide additional ideas that you have for
things that we could be doing to help our students
and to help all of our faculty and staff perform
and provide as excellent an environment as we can
for everyone involved. There was an email that
came out that talked about Moorpark is having for
fall of 50 percent on ground. I know we've all
heard that the Chancellor is really having us
focus on that as a goal. I think they got a couple
of the campuses confused in the email. But we're
right now we're aiming at 30 percent, but
we certainly are willing to
change and to continue to grow for our on ground
component as we adapt and find additional safe
ways in order to to provide the educational
opportunities. So we're still moving forward as
what we've been planning. We're aiming for
the 30 to 50 percent on ground. We're going to
have a variety of different kinds of pedagogy. We
have the high flex. We have on ground with
social distancing and mask, of course. We have the
online that are both synchronous or asynchronous
or some have even a mixture. So we're really doing
a variety of different types of pedagogy in order
to provide the safety and the students needs. So
it's really a very exciting time. We have a lot of
interesting things going on, on campus. Julius was
talking about some of the ones that were happening
in the last week or two. Also last week, we had
some really exciting career week and Celine Park is
here to tell us a little bit about that. Celine?
Celine Park: Hello, everyone, thank you, Mary. Thank you, Matt.
I just wanted to provide everyone with an update
on last week's career week. It was absolutely
spectacular. This was the first time we've
facilitated a virtual career week. So there were a
lot of new things that we had to learn, as far as
making sure that the events were going to be
seamless. In total, we had six hundred and eighty
two student attendees who registered for Career
Week and that included the resume rally. We
partnered with the Library, Tutoring Center, and the
Department of Rehabilitation, and we provided many
students with one on one resume assistance and
interview techniques. We also, the Child
Development Department facilitated a teaching
social justice with an early education workshop,
and that was really phenomenal. Career and
Internship Expo took place the next day. So we had,
believe it or not, we had over
600 people accessed the event. Eight hundred and
sixty people use the exhibitors hault and then we
had 40 businesses and 80 recruiters participating
in our event. So we had a lot of great results
from that. A lot of students got selected for paid
internships and some even got selected for part-
time positions. We also facilitated Nicole Block did
along with the FTVM staff, the entertainment
industry panel, plus networking, phenomenal event
very successful. On Wednesday we had a Guided
Pathway Alumni Industry Panel Forum. We had alumni
over nine alumni members talk about their
experience working in the health industry. And
then we had Career Education Day. Trevor
facilitated a wonderful event. We had over one
hundred and twenty five high schools to
participate with almost 500 people who
access the event and then finally we facilitated
the Phi Theta Kappa induction ceremony that was
conceived and organized by Raul Torres. So if any
of you missed any of these events, Dina will
be putting all of the recordings on the career
landing page, which is housed in our Career
Transfer Center web page. Thank you.
Mary: Thank you, Celine. Tammy, can you tell us a little
bit about HERStory month?
Tamarra Coleman: Yes. Thank you, Mary. Do, yeah, there we are.
Yes, so Women's HERStory Month began last week.
Unfortunately, our first event was canceled, and actually...can
you all hear me? Yes, good. [Mary]: You're good Tammy. [Tamarra]: Okay, just because
what I'm seeing on the screen looks a little bit
odd to me, but that's okay.
We're hoping to maybe revisit that topic again of
thinking about women's role in higher ed
historically and how women are playing a role
today in higher ed as professors and also as
administrators. This Thursday it's our second event
Poet Pat Payne is going to be visiting us. She is
a an artist in many ways, but she'll be sharing
with us her poetry and sort of a performance
art sort of way. So we're excited about that. And
that's at 3:00 p.m. Next week, do we have the
calendar at all? I'm trying to remember exactly which
day? Sorry about that. We have another event. You
can obviously use the Zoom registration link for
that and see the events for the month. But Nicole
Block and Lauren Snowden in the Film Department,
will be talking about women in film and in the
entertainment industry. And there is a video when
you go to the schedule on the website that you can
watch beforehand, that they'll be referring to it
and talking about in that particular event. There
is a final session that's still in the process of
being developed for that last week of the month. I
believe that's the 24th. And it is
focused around actually a story from one of our
former students and her experience as a survivor
with sexual assault and then following that, her
becoming an advocate. And so we're sort of putting
that together. That's not on the calendar yet, but
that'll be added to the calendar soon. And that's
it. I hope you all participate in these events for
HERStory month. I do want to just say this really
quickly. I was thinking about how we put together
Women's HERStory Month and how it felt a little bit
rushed and kind of squeezed in between Black
History Month and then, of course, Multicultural
Day next month. I just want to put it out there
for folks, if you are interested, and this is maybe
something we should start doing either very early
in the fall semester or even thinking about late
spring, is really starting to plan these months
ahead of time. So it's not so much of a kind of an
afterthought and scrambling for participation to
really develop the calendars much early, much
earlier. That is my sort of larger vision.
Mary: Thank you, Tammy. Excellent points. Hopefully
everyone will be able to appreciate and enjoy HER-
Story Month. Amanuel? [Amanuel Gebru]: Yes. Good afternoon
everyone. Happy Women's History Month, and thank
you, Tammy, and your team of people that are
putting on all the activities for the month to
celebrate all the women that have been making an
impact on society. I just want to have just a
quick update on in terms of our phone systems have
been down, so you may have a lot of students
having a hard time getting through our Counseling
or some of our services. So please refer them to
the virtual welcome center. And then also we will
be having some more drop in counseling for our
students, due to our phones being down and maybe
students having a hard time reaching some of our
services on campus. We will try to send out some
information. Hopefully the service will be going
back up today. The other thing, I just want to
introduce Micaiah, who's been working with us and
working with Johnny to support all the work that's
happening with our DI population, our men of color,
all the things we're trying to do to really
streamline how we support our special populations.
So I really want to take the time to thank and
welcome Micaiah, who's been part of the team since
last semester as a counselor assistant in that
role and in working with Johnny and the FYE
Program and a lot of other services on campus, our
student athletes, to really support our effort in
helping them transition, become successful, and
then today he'll share some of the wonderful
things that's happening with our A2MEND charter and
also our African-American male students. So,
Micaiah, let me pass it on to you. And you have
the floor. [Micaiah Satterwhite]: Thank you, Amanuel, and good afternoon,
everybody. My name is Micaiah Satterwhite. I'm a
new counselor assistant here in Moorpark College.
I have a primary focus with increasing retention
and engagement for African-American population, as
well as like Amanuel, said, working with our
student athletes and advising them and supervising
them to study hard. Part of my work is I build
rapports with the students, African-American
students in particular, as well as building
bridges and different avenues in different
departments to increase retention with other
divisions. A part of that work, I'm an advisor
here at Moorpark College for the A2MEND charter. And
what we do is focus on scholarship and mentorship
amongst African-American males. So at this year's
summit, which took place March 3rd to the 5th, we
had 70 of our, can you go to the next slide, please? We
had 70 of our African-American male students
participate in a knowledge bowl. Those students were
Kenneth Stuart, Kenny Ward, Deon Francois, Andrew
Roland, Cashton Hafrey, Myles Hunter, and Marc
Hawkins. We spent a couple of nights preparing. We
studied, a couple of pizza night, and to go over the
materials and we did pretty well. We placed third
overall. We had a few students on the leaderboard,
One of those students being Marc Hawkins,
one of our main soccer players, became a fifth
overall with about twenty nine thousand points,
which is really good. And I just want to say
congratulations to all the guys who participated,
and we're looking forward to bringing home the W
next year. It's okay. Came up a little short, but we
just got to keep pushing. Also, we had two
students, can you go to the next slide, please, receive
scholarships. We had Tim Whitehead and Amman Asfaw
I believe that's how you pronounce it and just
want to say congratulations to those students as
well. And then can you go to the last slide for me?
So please reach out and contact me if you have any
African-American students in your classes to be
engaged. And again, thank you. My name is Micaiah
Satterwhite.
Mary: Thank you, Micaiah.
A huge congratulations to all the students that
took part in that. Jennifer? [Jennifer]: Yes, ma'am. So this
Mary, Amanuel, and I are going to be talking just
for the next few minutes on the process, actually
Mary's going to take this part and then I'm going
to get a little bit into dollar amounts. And then
Mary and Amanuel are going to talk specifics about
ideas that have been raised thus far. And then,
John, really exciting he's, John Sinutko is going
to be sharing some of the concepts for some of the
facilities ideas that have been generated already.
So stay tuned. Mary. [Mary]: Thanks, Jennifer. We all know
our usual process for our budgets and how we go
through our program plans and all of that.
CARES and HERF is kind of put us in an unusual
situation in that it comes the money comes off
cycles. So what we want to do is make sure clear
what our process is on all of our funding. First
of all, is identifying the need, making sure we
communicate with everyone as far as what the
perception is, as far as what the need is and what
we need to spend the money on. Monitor the
effect of the money of expenses or fundings and
then define whether there is additional needs or
what else needs to happen on that.
The next couple of slides, it goes through each of
those different steps. So how are we identifying
the need from student surveys, faculty and staff
surveys, student responses on the web site,
current priority list from program plans, current
expenditures that would normally be spent but are
now being spent on different things due to the
Covid situation, as well as meeting with deans,
Financial Aid, M&O, Student Services, Emergency
Operation Group, and Fiscal to hear where the needs
are on campus to make sure that we are aware of
all of the different needs.
And then we need to have feedback to the community,
to all the groups to make sure that what we've
heard is correct and to understand the needs. One
of the tools that we use for communication is our
update. We do so appreciate having the opportunity
to try to get the information out to people as
much as possible. We have our standing committees
with the deans, admin councils. There's standing
meetings with the president of Senate and
Classified and ASMC, as well as the different
standing committees that are currently meeting
where there's great opportunity for conversation.
This spring, we will have a town hall that we'll
look at the Covid and HERF budget as well as our
campus budget.
The expenditures, when they're clearly completely
defined, will go to Senate as well Classified and
the student government, as well as to the Board of
Trustees to make sure everyone is aware on how the
money is being spent.
Spending the money is a big piece of it, but
we need to make sure how we monitor the success.
We're looking at the vision for success metrics as
defined by the Chancellor's Office. We want to be
able to quantitate direct and indirect
expenditures and also the impact on our students
of all the funding.
And then we need to continue to survey students,
continue to survey faculty and staff, use our
Guided Pathways success teams to help identify
and meet student needs, and then continue to use
our program plans to define where our programs are
going and what their needs are. These will all be
big topics at our campus retreats this spring.
Jennifer: Thank you, Mary. So, talking specifically about
money that the campus has to deal with the Covid
situation, we've all heard of the CARES money and
then there's a CARES HSI allocation as well that
Moorpark received as we are Hispanic serving
institution. And then we've also heard about the
CARES supplement, the CARES 2.0, some people call
it. It's really the HERF the Higher Education
Act. It's basically the Relief Act, the second
round of funding that's coming. As far as the
direct student aid, as I alluded to, or as I
mentioned earlier in the presentation, we still
have the last little bit from the over two and a
half million dollars that we have provided
directly to nearly 3,000 students this
semester. So we'll we will be dispersing those
last three hundred thousand dollars fairly soon,
well within the next month or so. The HERF
2.0 the 2.571 million,
that is the supplement to CARES that is coming. So
we have about almost 2.9 million in
student direct aid that we will be disbursing over
the next, actually less than a year to our students.
Next slide, please? These refer to the the monies
that the campus has received for the pandemic, the
institutional monies, not specifically for
students, but for the institution. So, again, we
have some money left over from the original
2.571 million. That remaining
balance. We're about seven hundred and seventy
three thousand left to spend still on that
original amount. We have our CARES HSI
allocation of three hundred and forty three
thousand. We did also receive reserves, as has on
OC and VC from our own Board of Trustees, to deal again
with the pandemic situation in whatever way is
most appropriate for each campus. And then we have
another almost eight million dollars coming from
HERF funds for the to the institution. So we have
almost nine and a half million dollars that we
need to be spending over the next year or so. So
Amanuel and Mary are going to get into some
specifics of the ideas on the next couple of
slides and then John. Thanks, Mary. [Mary]: Thank you,
Jennifer.
This one Amanuel?
Amanuel: Yes, thank you, Mary. And these are some of the
proposed CARES, CARES HSI HERF and the
reserve budget that we're looking at in terms of
expenditures. Obviously, we always need additional
support in terms of our students in Counseling.
So that's one of the areas we're looking at or
considering to beef up. In addition to, you know, working with
Matt and Athletic folks in terms of ICA, increasing
in the work. In regards to a counselor assistant,
you just saw Micaiah do a presentation on the work
he's doing with our DI population. So addressing
that and working with our HSI efforts as well,
increasing our I.T. specialist work, because, you know, I'm
sure Dan and those folks continue to need
additional resources to support that area as well.
And we're doing a lot this year with Raider
Central. So we're trying to beef that up a little
bit by supporting Tim and Johnny and getting him
some more support to really bring in more
resources, more food to our community and
especially to our students. We've looked A&R
who's looking at a lot of EW's this year. So also
additional support in that area. Online Student
Support Desk, our tutors, our student ambassadors,
mental health is a critical area as well,
supporting instructional faculty, increasing
courses due to Covid as well. And looking at
courses that we're working with all the deans
and ensuring that we provide those as well. And
then additional over time in various departments,
because there's been a lot of requests in terms of
the things we're doing, especially with Jennifer
and making sure we have a lot of the check in
areas and so forth. And then some of the other
direct support to our students, which would be
about 1.3 million, is things like
textbooks for math, English, a lot of effort,
Dual Enrollment and looking at our high schools
who are continuously needing more support and
resources, calculators for our students on campus,
PPE cleaning supplies, food, as I mentioned before,
for Raider Central, hygiene products, washer dryer
for Raider Central. So these are a lot of the
components that would be direct support to our
students in ways we can put some of that in their
hands and also put it in ways where they can get
it in books and and supplies and those kind of
things. The other area that's critical to our
campus is always professional development. Looking
at faculty, Starfish, Guided Pathways, the work with
Early Alert we're looking at in terms of how we
streamline that and we provide that information to
faculty with appropriate training. And then, of
course, OER support for over 50 courses. So this
is with a lot of the feedback coming going to be
from all of you in terms of the key constituents,
but also we've been working with Mike Hoffman and
Johnny to really help us put together some of
these budgets and preparing some of the things we
could potentially use as a proposed cost for all
of these areas. So, Mary, I think you have...
Mary: Great Amanuel. Other areas that we're looking to to spend
some of the CARES or the Covid funding on is
looking at technology. We have been doing a very
aggressive lending for laptops and tablets and
Chromebooks, also looking for to lend headphones,
microphones set up high flex classrooms, set up
the cameras and webcams in order so that we can
use this other technology pedagogy available for
our students. Adobe and On Base getting the
software so that for staff as well as faculty and
for students to use and promoting many of the IT
projects that are going to make it more efficient
and smoother, working remotely. Other institutional
support costs. Six hundred thousand dollars
approximately. Looking at reaching back out to our
students. Encouraging students to come back to
school, encouraging students to stay in school
with through marketing, outreach, students that took
an EW reaching out to them from our call center,
finding out what their needs are and how to get
them back in schools in the successful manner.
Looking at indirect costs. Where on the campus had
there been costs due to Covid and support them,
particularly the impact it's had on registrars and
EW processing, on grant oversight, all of those
areas on campus. In the accounting area, areas that
are a significant burden and take a lot of work in
order to do. If we look at lost revenue, the Child
Development Center has completely had to change.
It has not been on ground, the loss of revenue is
significant. The zoo was is now back open, which
we are delighted, but it has been closed for
almost a year. And the revenue loss from that, the
work continues. The feeding of the animals, the
caring of the animals all continues. We usually
have input and money coming in from our civic
center, people using our facilities on campus with
our restricting what goes on on campus to the tier
ones and tier two activities. These we have not
been getting the revenue from the Civic Center as
well as you know, we've not been doing it
collecting any parking, which does impact the
funding in the police services as well, which do
need to continue. If we look at facilities, we've
got John Sinutko, who is going to go over with some of
these really exciting options of how do we bring
students safely back on campus? How do we have
staff and faculty working on campus? He's going to
talk a little bit about outdoor classrooms,
flexible learning rooms, work at the quad
amphitheatre, a classroom warehouse, as well as
work on our HVACS. John, can you give us some more
details? [John Sinutko]: Absolutely. Thank you, Mary. So first of
all, this just for those of you who haven't been
to campus for a while, the upper part of campus,
those parking lots on the north side of our
facility here are covered with these solar panels
that you see here. Very dramatic change in
appearance. When these are connected
to SCE's grid, we will be generating three point one
eight megawatts of solar energy. So we have our
renewable resources going here. Next slide, please?
So for coming back with the idea of increasing our
presence on site, we were looking at outdoor
classroom options. So and we'll go through these
as we go along here. We are also concerned with
our indoor air quality and what can we do to
mitigate the spread of of pathogens? And we have a
solution we believe that will be a three point
solution that will work. And we are also going to
be placing barriers to help you interact with
people on site, protective barriers being acrylic
materials all over the campus, every counter
location on campus and in other places as well.
Next slide?
This is a concept of one of our outdoor spaces.
This is the OTC, the outdoor training center, and
what this facility needs is a way to protect it
from the elements. And we're looking at the use of
a free stand structure with tensile fabric as part
of the element. And this thing would completely
cover the entire area, which is a very good size
area if you've not seen it without any post or
obstructions internally. And that's just a concept
that we've come up with. We're tasking the
architects to develop something that in this idea.
Next slide please? FLR's, flexible learning rooms.
Challenged with the idea of getting large spaces
so that we can have large groups socially distanced
and have that, our goal is to have them on site
for fall. We came up with the idea of a system of
buildings, other air supported structures. These
air supported structures. This is just the
penciled in version would be located on our
overflow parking lot, which is down by the H lot
area. And we would underneath this would all be
paved. These will be fully heated and air
conditioned and they will have LED lighting,
smart classroom facilities inside. And it was one
of the only things that we thought we can get up
in that time frame. And we were currently in
discussions with the Division of The State
Architect on how we might move forward with it. This
concept here would look a little bit different
when we get done with it. This is just a pencil
drawing I did. And what we're looking at is the
color would probably be school colors with the
college logo on it. Next slide, please?
You're looking at something long awaited here, an
ampitheater space. This is above the gymnasium.
That gray circle area between the gym and the
LLR building. And it's pretty ambitious in that
we were having a stage that is almost a thousand
feet larger than the one in our PA and seating
for a thousand folks in the audience. And it's a
great location for that. We have also tasked
the architects with this one a little bit of a
challenge. Next slide, please?
And this is a concept I came up with that it might
look like. Again, we're using framing and tensile
fabric to create the space. It would have storage
behind it for equipment and potentially
even be able to secure it with doors or something
like that. This is a concept that, you know, we're
challenging the architects with. And next slide,
please? We've had a meeting on this campus within
users, and this is the area in the quad. This is
where we always have our graduation ceremony. One
of the things that it started out with just asking
for power than we talked about what we would do
with it. And I know this is kind of small to see
the detail in, but what you see there are a
system of trusses that they can hang lighting and
speakers on. There is a back drawn wall where you
have a back of stage area. And we are looking at
adding around the periphery of this area, some
benches and on the facing part over past raider
walk with those of you familiar with this will be
a master control station. And next?
We are looking at the idea of adding another
warehouse that is going to be a classroom first,
another large space, fully conditioned space,
air conditioning and heating, and the location
is again by the football field and our overflow
parking lot. This is very on the very far south part of
the campus. And there's an area there that's about
92 by 90 roughly that we could put a building
on and we're exploring that opportunity. Again, to
have a just a large area that we can do social
distance gatherings and be able to use it
once we're done with that.
I guess it's back to Mary? Oh, I forgot about this
one. [Mary]: Oh, please, yes. [John]: So our UVC program
talked about that a little bit at the beginning.
What we're looking at doing is adding UVC light.
This is actually a picture of one of our air
conditioning units. This one happens to be on the
roof of the LLR building. And everybody, I've
gotten a lot of calls on this, like, "What does it
mean? Am I going to be irradiated?" No, certainly not.
I'm hoping you can see there is a blue arrow on
the equipment on the right side of the screen and
it's pointing at a door. And this view below is
what's inside there. And you can see this is the
area where UV light would be treating it. This is
the air handler section of that particular piece
of equipment. And that's where all the magic
happens. The idea there is to kill all the
pathogens by exposing it over and over and over to
UV light, UVC particularly high intensity UVC,
and therefore providing for healthier buildings.
We're moving over to merv 13 air filters in all
the buildings that can handle that. Our newer
buildings such as the gymnasium, HSC building, have
already have the ability for merv 15, which is
HEPA filters, and those are in those buildings
already. The other thing we do on a daily basis
for every building, is we turn on the systems
two hours early and we flush the entire building
out with fresh air, and that's done on a daily
basis. Just to help provide the best air quality we
can inside the buildings. [Mary]: Thank you, John. Just
amazing. Oh, please. [John]: This
is just an example of the kinds of
barriers we're going to put up in different
locations. This one happens to be at the Student
Health Center and the Administration building. And
you can see that there is a Plexiglas screen there.
And we put this up just so that we can interact
with folks and still keep everybody safe during
Covid. And I guess that's it. [Mary]: John, just some
amazing ideas, and I think these things can really
provide to the campus as far as for the fall as
well as for the future vision for the campus. A
question when you say larger classrooms, so the
FLR would serve how many students social
distanced? [John]: We can sit 84 students with
desks, socially distanced and plenty of
space and allow for and allow for the smart classroom teachers.
Mary: Thank you. That's really great information. Thank
you. Let me see if there were, there was a comment
about our own Hollywood Bowl. And I think our
theater, music and arts are certainly up for the
challenge. Right?
Okay, again, looking at the. [Jennifer]: There was a question
about the last question on there Mary, the science
of Covid demonstrates the need for cross straps,
for proper ventilation. This is a great John question.
For offices without any windows or doors or
anything to the outside, what will be provided?
John: Well, all our buildings are designed to have six
changes of air per hour with 20 percent outside
air every single exchange. So, you're getting 20
percent new air, six times an hour in every
building.
Mary: Thank you, John, that's really helpful because I
think people don't know what our ventilation
systems are on campus, so I think that's really
good information. Appreciate that.
Jennifer, there was a question about whether we
could figure out a way to have a docking station
in the mail room or someplace that would have open
access to faculty. [Jennifer]: Yeah, so the mail room, I
understand I know this issue has come up
before about having a docking station. I believe I
can't remember the specifics, but I believe
there's some sort of connectivity issue that we
have in the mail room at this time. So until
that's the case, the one that we have in Business
Services is certainly available. I know someone
said that they weren't comfortable because
Cynthia's not there. Allam is there. I mean, Allam
is there every day. So don't feel that, you know,
you can't, you know, swing by or if you're in that building
Allam would be more than happy to assist. The other
place is, I know FM & O is always there open, what,
until like 3, 3:30, John? [John]: Yeah, I
know we're open to 4:00. [Jennifer]: Four okay, I know that's not
as that's not central like the mail room, but it
is another option for work where people can go.
Mary: Thank you. John, that was a question about the
acoustics from the FLRs. Any ideas on that? [John]: I
really haven't a whole lot of information on the
acoustics for the FLRs yet. I haven't delved
into that as much as we will eventually.
It is a dual wall fabric structure. I'm not sure
of the reflectivity of that, but we'll have to
explore that, obviously. [Mary]: All right. Thank you.
This more might be a question for Dan as well, but I do
know we are looking at microphones for individual
faculty that are interested when they come back to
campus as well, because we do realize with the
mask we are assuming in fall, we will be doing a
mask and social distancing, and we do understand
that it is more difficult for lecturing and
interacting with the mask on, so we are looking
into microphones for faculty or staff
that need it. Correct. Is that, you know, any
comments on that, Jennifer? [Jennifer]: No, that's correct. I
know that that's something that Dan is
looking at. They've tried I don't know who, but I
think folks are trying out different kinds of
microphones to see which ones are most
effective because, of course, yes, we will be
wearing masks. So we understand that that
will have an impact on how well faculty can be
heard in the classroom. And I just wanted to go
back really quick just to docking stations. Just
to remind people that you have to have your key
charged first. Right? The docking station isn't
going to work unless your keys charged. So charge
it first, then the docking station.
Mary: Thank you. Let's see the questions on acoustics,
and there was a question about acoustics at the
amphitheater. And John, I assume that you're going
to be...
John: I'm sorry I didn't catch all of that.
Amanuel: I think we might have lost Mary, John. She was
saying how are the acoustics in those rooms?
John: In the amphitheater? Well, that's
specifically that area was originally designed for
this campus in the initial plans for this campus
was always intended to be an amphitheater there.
The acoustics should be excellent and should
really allow that the sound to project into our
campus without impacting the neighborhoods. The
location is ideal. I think it's going to be a
fantastic spot for that.
Julius: Okay any other questions for John or for any
of the vice presidents who presented today?
If there are, please put them in Q&A and we can
try and respond to them as quickly as we can. As
you can see from the presentations, there's been a
lot of thought, input into this. Thank you to
John. Thank you, Jennifer. Thank you to Mary and
Amanuel for your work and for the folks
in the various programs who are supporting each
one of you in putting this vision together. As
you can see our goal is to make sure that it's a
safe return to campus. There is still quite a bit
that's unknown. You know, we are planning that we will be
working under the same Cal OSHA guidelines as we
currently are, which is six feet distancing, which
is masking, which is making sure that we have
opportunity to make sure we wash our
hands frequently, and that there is screening of
individuals before they come onto campus and as they're
on campus, that they're checking in so that we can
contact trace as best as possible. Safety, safety,
safety really is the mantra here. And as you can
see, we're trying our very best to create a
variety of options for outdoor instruction so that
we can meet the needs of as many students as
possible. We're also trying to make sure that with
those three FLRs, those flexible learning rooms,
that we're creating the opportunity for students
in programs where they are hard to learn or hard to
be successful. So I'm thinking of math, for
example, thinking about sciences, for example,
where we need to provide an opportunity for 40
students to be in a space learning together and do
it socially distanced. That's the intention of
those spaces. As you can also see, we're
integrating all of this into our routine college
planning processes. Yes, we will include
professional development for staff and
administrators. We always forget the
administrators. We also need professional
development, by the way. And so we're going to
to include all of those
into the mix. But the goal here is to make sure
that we're available to as many students as
possible. Yes as an institution, we have
increased in terms of headcount, but also as an
institution we have experienced almost five
percent drop in units that students are registered
for. We cannot continue that. So our goal in the
fall is to address the needs in the summer and the
fall, by the way, we're going to move
towards that 50 percent through the summer and the
fall. My goal is to moving towards 50 percent, not
30 percent, towards 50 percent as best as we can,
as safely as we can. And our goal is to work with
our faculty and staff and administrators so that
as many people feel as safe as possible. We need
to hear from you what your concerns are. We need
to hear from you, what you are looking to do in
terms of vaccine so that we know who is available
to teach, who's available to be working on campus.
We're forcing anybody into any environment, but
we are encouraging, encouraging folks to seriously
think about making sure that we return to
in-person instruction. We know that there are many
students who are not being served well or as well
by an online context. We want to make sure we're
available to those students and more.
Mary, welcome back. Do you have any particular
questions or comments for us? [Mary]: No, I feel wonderful. Thank
you. I think this is going to be once again Moorpark
moving towards excellence. These are some
really student focused, safety focused ideas. So
wonderful. [Julius]: And also think about the fact that
we're looking at all of these structures and
all these upgrades to our system, and our goal is
to use this moment, these resources that we have
strategically, so that it will last a lifetime, at
least as long as we can, maybe 10 years. So we're
not just putting money into activities, we're
putting money into activities that will last us
and allow us to enhance the learning experiences
of our students for a
little bit longer to come.
Let's see if there's any other questions.
I don't see any more questions. [Mary]: I think we're good,
Julius, and we will keep everyone informed as we
move forward. Any last words Julius before we leave
today? [Julius]: Just again, thank you to everyone
involved in all of this planning. I wanted to
reach out a big kudos to the folks who are working
on the Simi Valley Unified School District
tutoring partnership. Deb Brackley and Emmanuel,
and I'm trying to think who else is, oh, the
folks who work in the learning center around this
work, the Simi Valley Unified School District
parents and families are glad and grateful to us.
And we also got a shout out in an article in
Ventura County Star. We're doing the right thing,
folks. We're doing the right thing. And also,
congratulations to the inductees. The PTK
inductees great job Raul and the folks in the
learning center for doing that, putting that
event together. Have a great week, everyone.
Please be safe. Bye bye.