Mary Rees: Good afternoon and welcome. We'll, wait just a
minute or two while people come join us this
afternoon.
We are so glad you could all join us for the start
of Moorpark Campus Update for May 17 and the
start of our classified professional appreciation
week.
For this morning, or I should say this afternoon,
we're going to go over our updates. We still got a
few more people. We'll wait just another second
while people are still coming in.
So good afternoon and welcome to May 17
Moorpark College Update, and as I said, the start
of our classified professional appreciation week.
Going to in the agenda today go over some key
information from Julius, Jennifer, Amanuel, and
myself. We have an exciting new program to
spotlight, Kudos Award, classified professional
appreciation week kick off, and then we are going
to end with a really wonderful tribute to this
unusual year. Good afternoon. Oh, I should
remind you all that the update is being recorded
and any questions can be put in the Q&A. Also
that it is all closed captioned. If you would like
to see a close captioned, please click the CC at the
bottom of your page. And that the update will be
captioned and will be posted on the President's
web page. Good afternoon, Julius. [Julius]: Good afternoon,
Mary. Hi, everyone. And wishing everybody a happy,
classified professionals appreciation week. Thank
you to every single classified professional on our
campus community. We are stronger, we are better,
we serve students more effectively because of you.
There's a whole range of wonderful things
happening on our campus, and
our classified professionals are a vital part of that
work. So want to say a very big thank you and
celebrating you this week. And hopefully next year
we will be on ground. Well, we will be on ground,
and celebrating the classified professional week
with rootbeer floats in the president's conference
room, which we usually do. There's a link to
my message to the classified professionals. If you
have not had a chance to hear that or see that,
please go to that link. So as you know,
there's so much has sort of transpired
over the past since last Thursday regarding the
mask mandate. And so much is transpiring as we
speak every day. And I just want to sort of give
you some context and give you a sense of
what informs what we do at the college, which is
we really follow our county's mandate, and we want
to try as much as possible to have the least
restrictive protocols while still protecting the
public's health. So our goal is to align whatever
we're doing and that is with our county. The
county's goal is to align what they are doing and
what they're advising in terms of mask
wearing with the California Department of Public
Health's guidance. We have not received any new
guidance from the county or from the state
Department of Public Health. Yes, the CDC has been
very explicit that one needs not wear a mask
outdoors or indoors if the one's been vaccinated. And
it's in the best interest of those who happen to
get vaccinated. But our county, nor our California
Department of Public Health, has given specific
guidance. And we abide by what our county has
provided us, is requiring of us. So we are
still requiring that folks wear masks on our
campus, we're still requiring that folks follow the social
distancing protocols on our campus. And we
appreciate your awareness and your following those
guidelines and knowing that really is an
intention not only to keep ourselves, each one of
us safe, but also to keep our campus community and
our local community safe as we do this work.
We will provide you with ongoing
information as we get it. And then, of course,
discuss with you how this will impact our delivery
of instruction and services to students, and to our
community. Very important that we get the message
across that folks do get vaccinated on campus
today. Right as we're speaking between 11:00 a.m.
and 6:00 p.m. .There is a pop up vaccination clinic
taking place in our E lot. If you have not yet
been vaccinated, come on down, come to campus,
come get yourself vaccinated. And if you've been
vaccinated, please remember to upload your vaccine
card onto our app. That would be fantastic. Let's
see, what else do I want to share?
Okay, we should move forward at this point to Allison,
Allison Case Barton from our Student Health Center to
share with you valuable information regarding our Covid
dashboard. [Allison Case Barton]: Well, good morning. Thank you, Julius.
So as we usually do during these things, I want to
make sure everybody knows how we're doing on our
campus. And we can see, again, lots of zeros. Yea.
The two that are known exposures
are actually no longer exposures even. So, we
don't have anybody in quarantine. We don't have
any positive cases that we're aware of. And so are
we have a lot of recovered people. And that's
great to know. You may remember from the last
time that I did this update that we had a lot more
total vaccines uploaded to the MyVCCCD app. And
that's because we can now disaggregate people that
have done it too early or that they have done it
more than once, sometimes because there's not a
super exciting like bells and whistles and
fireworks when you upload it. Sometimes people
think that maybe they haven't actually uploaded it.
So just be aware. It's not super exciting visually
when you do it, although it's very exciting to us
as case follower uppers, all of our
stuff that we have to do to keep our
campus safe. So that's important to know. Next slide,
please? So you may have heard before that we would
like you to upload your vaccine and this is how
you do it. We've shown you this before, but when
you're at the top of your MyVCCCD
app, you have those tiles, you just want to
swipe left and find the one with the syringe on it,
and you just follow the steps. So as soon
as you're finished with your vaccine, you then
you're going to want to upload it. If you have the
Johnson and Johnson one, which you would get today
at the pop up clinic, in the E lot, you can do it
immediately today. And in fact, I have these
instructions up there to follow. So if you forget
how to do it or whatever, it's up at the clinic.
Next slide, please? And here's more information
about the pop up clinic that you may have heard
about a few times. So it's going on right now up
at the E lot, by the observatory. It's going to be
going until 6:00. Anybody that lives, works, or
goes to school in Ventura County may come to this
clinic. They're very nice. It's very organized.
They're up and running. So I encourage you one and
done and then upload. The other thing I wanted
to add, not about vaccines, but just wanted to
update you on the Student Health Center that we
will not be open on Thursday and Friday of this
week and we will be during the summer open just
Monday through Thursday, 8:00 to 5:00. Thanks so
much. Back to you, Julius.
Julius: Thank you so much, Allison. So I do want to say a
very big thank you to the campus community for
your support and your prayers and your caring
your love as my son Michael battles and battled a
health crisis. I really do appreciate and value the
energy that you've sent towards us. And in a lot of
ways, you know, your prayers and
working through the health professionals has
helped Michael towards his health recovery.
He's doing well. He is out of ICU, which is a
great thing to behold because, we didn't think
he was going to be. And he's now in acute care and
will remain there for a little bit and then
transition to orthopedic rehabilitation because
the left side of his body is still rather weak.
But I thank you so much.
There is no one who can sort of understand the
struggles of a parent going through this unless
you've have gone through it in this way. And I am
grateful for your love and for your support. I
will pass it on now to Dr. Jennifer Clark.
Jennifer Clark: Good afternoon, everybody. Happy graduation week,
we made it, this historic year. Yea! So
congratulations to all of our graduates and again,
for all of us for helping them get there. I did
want to say, give a huge shout out this
week to all of our classified professionals. Of
course, it is Classified Professionals
Appreciation Week, and there is no one, well, I
don't know that that's true, no one that
appreciates classified more than I do. I am
surrounded by, nothing but classified
professionals, and I swear I couldn't get anything
done without them. To me, you, the classified
professionals are sort of the glue of our college
to me. Right? The glue are the people that you
refer to, you know, "Oh, you're the glue," you know,
in a group of friends or a family. The glue are the
people that like bringing people together and make
those connections and sort of without the glue,
things just don't happen. Things just don't stick
together. For me, classified are that glue. They're
the ones that make those connections, have those
communications, and sort of help facilitate
bringing everybody together, so that we have
graduation week and we have a college. So it would
not truly be possible without each and every one
of you. So thank you. Thank you. From the bottom
of my heart for all that you do and for the one
last happy, happy announcement that I have, for
those of you that have been paying attention to my
announcements, I was letting people know that we
were waiting with bated breath for the May revise,
which came out last Friday. And with the May
revise, yes, it's obviously budget information,
which I will be sharing that with you at a future
date. It's all good. It's positive. There's
nothing the shoe didn't drop, so yea. But really,
the last thing I wanted to say was that, to make
the announcement that our
administration building renovation project was in
fact, put on the list and approved by the state,
and it is moving forward. I'm looking at it right
now and we will be getting more than four million
dollars from the state in matching funds to make
the administration building renovation
possible. Of course, that includes our Student
Health Center. So our Student Health Center is
going to be more than doubling in size, which is
sorely, sorely, badly, badly needed for a very
long time. So that will be happening. So stay
tuned on that. We won't be moving out of the
building any time soon. These things take a very
long time to process it with the state. So perhaps
in about a year or so from now, people will
actually be moving out of the building into
temporary structures, which we'll provide more
information for at a later date. But know that
this doesn't mean that people have to start
packing now and moving out of the building. It's
still going to take some time, but it is moving
forward. So thank you all very, very much. And
again, I have a wonderful, wonderful classified
professionals appreciation week. Thank you.
Mary: Thank you, Jennifer. That is some really exciting
news. I think, two really exciting bits of news.
Julius, those pictures of Michael were wonderful to
see. Thank you so much for reaching out and
sharing with us on that. And Jennifer, the admin
building will be great. We're so looking forward.
And I know the student health, I was seeing all
the cheers coming from Allison on that. So that's
absolutely great news. Thank you.
Well, we do have some time for questions later,
but I did want to while we just finished, Jennifer,
do we still have HEERF funds available for summer
and for fall?
Jennifer: Yes, so okay, so HEERF funding, HEERF funding for across
all three campuses in our district. All three
campuses will be awarding HEERF funding directly to
students, $1,000 per semester. So for
fall and for spring, $1,000 for part
time and full time students alike. I believe part
time students need to be registered for six units
and they would qualify for a $1,000 grant.
Again, provided that they follow the process, they
submit a FAFSA, etc., $1,000 per
semester. As for the summer, while we are not
necessarily awarding HEERF funds at this time from that
pot of money for summer, there are emergency
grants that we are awarding lots of them from
other sources for summer students. I know
one that I'm thinking of has a
$255,000 threshold for
different amounts of units taken, for this one
particular grant for the summer. So the answer,
the short answer is, well, no, it's not HEERF, but
yes, there are emergency grant funds available for
students for summer. [Mary]: Thank you so much.
On the next slide. We kind of go over a couple
of really key points for the end of the semester.
First of all, I think we've all been hopefully you
heard loud and clear from Julius and from Jennifer,
we are so glad to be able to celebrate this
classified professional appreciation week with all
of all of our dear
coworkers on all that we do here on campus, but
also just a huge thank you to everyone. It was
everyone as a team that has gotten us through this
very strange year. So a huge thank you to everyone
here on the team for Moorpark College. You all are
just a incredible family and team to be part of,
and you do really make things happen for students
and for our community. So just an incredible thank
you to all of you. A few reminders for students,
that if you have unstable Wi-Fi, LMC 138
139 is available. That students
can sign up to take their finals in a supervised
area with good Wi-Fi there in the LMC 138
139 will be available. And I
believe Michael just put the link up on that. So
please tell your students, both from the classified
professionals and faculty, any students you see,
please encourage them that this is available to
them if they would like to. They don't have to,
but it is available and it is helpful. Three big
things to all students. So any students, any
people in the community you see, please be sure
and give them three messages. One, we're here for
them. We have a variety of different type of
courses for summer and for fall. We have
particularly in the fall we have on ground, online,
synchronous, asynchronous, hybrid, high flex. We
have a lot of choices for students. We are anxious
to help them get back going towards their
educational goals. So please encourage students A.
Enroll. B. Sign up for financial aid. Jennifer was
mentioning that we have HEERF funds available for
our students, in the fall. If students fill out a
FAFSA form and acknowledge that they have been
impacted by Covid and who hasn't been impacted by
Covid, we have available for them and they sign up
for six units. We have available
$1,000 for these students to help them move
forward on their education. So please encourage
students, people in the community to register, to
sign up for the financial aid, and third, to get
vaccinated. So three important messages to take
out to our community. Commencement is this
Thursday, May 20. We are totally celebrating the
fortitude, the focus, the determination of our
graduates. So I know many of you have signed up to
hel them pcelebrate. And Amanuel will go
through some of the points there, but we're
very excited for all of our students. On a more
detailed level, be sure the grades are in. Semester
grades are due May 21. And we always know that
it's an anxious time for our students. So they are
most appreciative. The grades need to be in for
them for transfer. So it is critical that we hit
this, get our semester grades in on time. So a lot
of exciting things happening this week. A really
important message for our students. Register, get
your financial aid, and get vaccinated. Amanuel?
Amanuel Gebru: Thank you, Mary.
I also want to echo the same sentiments for
classified appreciation week, we just want to say
thank you. I want to say thank you. You guys
are the individuals that really make the magic
happen for our students, when they first arrive and
then throughout the year. So I just want to say
deep felt appreciation and thank you and hopefully
we'll see you all soon in person. Also, just want
to highlight a few things from our commencement,
which is this Thursday, May 20. For those of you
that don't know where it's going to be, it's in
parking lots AA and also A. Graduates are invited
to come on ground any time between 9:00 a.m. and
1:00 p.m. to receive a free commemorative lawn sign,
free diploma covers, free gift from the Associated
Students. So a lot of giveaways from our campus for
our graduates. Graduates who feel comfortable
doing so might also exit their vehicles then wait
in a socially distanced line to have their official
graduation photo taken by professional
photographers at the Grad Images. So we'll send
out more email so that you know exactly where that
is. For faculty, staff, and administrators
who are invited to celebrate our students
and to help make this event special, by either
signing up to help with the day of operation or by
volunteering to cheer them on in the tunnel area.
If someone is unsure if they volunteered or still
want to sign up, please contact Kristen Robinson
and she'll get you more information on that. In
regards to parking lot, we will also send parking
information exactly in terms of where people
should park so that you know exactly where to go
when you get on campus. Volunteers are also
encouraged to show their MC pride by wearing Moorpark
College branded apparel or their favorite blue t-shirt.
Since many of our volunteer positions entail,
standing for a long period of time, we encourage,
Kristen encourages that you wear some comfortable
shoes during the day as well. By volunteering,
people are also agreeing to wear masks at all
times during the drive through commencement. They're
also agreeing to complete the mandatory Covid
screening process. More information about the
Covid screening requirements can be found online.
So we'll send another reminder email so that you
know where to access the information. Volunteers
you will receive an email later today kind of
reiterating the guidance covered here. But any
pressing questions you may have, please direct
them to Kristen in regards to graduation. So this
is our favorite time of the year. It's my favorite
time of the year. So congratulations to all our
staff and faculty who helped our students get to
this point. And hopefully we'll get to cheer them
on and celebrate with them on Thursday. One more
last thing, just a reminder for our free grab and go
grocery store every Tuesday from our Raider Central.
It's every Tuesday, Moorpark College,
7075 Campus Road in lot E from 12:00 to 5:00. And
then every Saturday in the Career Education Center
at 5700 Condor
Drive from 12:30 to 2:30. So please
as some of the faculty are teaching summer
school, still encourage our students to take
advantage of the free food. And then last thing is
congratulations to a wonderful year of really
supporting our students during that difficult
transition year. And we just want to say we
appreciate you and we hopefully plan to see you
hopefully on campus in the near future. Mary, I'll
pass it back to you. No, actually, I will pass it
to Tim Lumas and Matt Crater, who will be doing
the mentoring component for our presentation today.
Mary: Thank you.
Tim Lumas: Thank you very much. Can we have the next
slide, please? So my name is Tim Lumas. I'm a
criminal justice professor, Matt Crater's our
athletic director. And he and I are looking
for faculty members, staff, classified staff, any
members of the Moorpark family to assist us with
what we call a student athlete mentorship program.
And it's based on the fact that because we are
Moorpark strong, we all want to work together for the
betterment of our students. Next slide, please?
This came about as a conversation that both Matt
and I had had with each other and then also with
Vance Manakas. And we've decided that this is the
best time to do this. It's the perfect time to do
this. And what we're looking for is for faculty to
meet with our athletes and then become mentors for
them. There's been similar programs in and around
Ventura County that have the same type of look,
but by offering this mentorship program to
Teaching Women Men of Color Advocates, it gives
us an additional advantage of using a core group
of people to assist and what takes place as you
would mentor a team and then mentor individuals on
that team. And it's very simple, very easy. And
having done this in the past, it winds up being
extremely fun, because one of the things I've
noticed when I've gone to events is that our
students are happy when they see their instructors,
their professors, staff, everyone there at that
particular event. Can you get the next slide, please?
Matt Crater: Thank you, Tim. All right. Hi, everyone. First off,
I also want to thank our classified employees
without you, there is no way our student athletes
would have been competing this spring, whether
it's the how amazing our field looks, we're going
through all our protocols for Covid. It's been a
a great semester to see them back out
there. And so I thank you for that. When it comes
to the fact the mentor program, there's
a few things that we want to cover on this.
As a mentor, we ask that you commit to
attending a few practices throughout the semester.
This can be you can make this how you want it to
be. And with your schedule and the athlete's
schedule. We want to make it work for everyone. So
it's something if you have interest in it, let us
know and we will find a way to let you be a part
of our athletic programs and get to speak with our
student athletes and eventually grow this
beyond. So towards the beginning, it would be great
if our mentors could come and speak to the team
and tell them why they chose the team, why they
wanted to be a part of this program. So that when
you are around those teams, they know who you are,
whether you have one individual or a whole team
that they have that rapport with you and why
you want to be there. If you played the sport or if
you have an interest in a sport, either way, we'd
would love to have you be a part. One of
the biggest parts about this is talking with
our students. What does it take to be successful
in college? You know, what are things outside of
athletics that are important? Career? Family? And
like Tim says here, "They want to know. They want to
have that experiences. They want to have these
relationships with other people on campus that are
going to make them successful." If they're attending
the games. You know, that goes a long ways to our
student athletes to see the campus community
supporting them outside of, sometimes
that academic setting. And it really goes a long
ways in their academic success as well. Once we
have our mentors, Tim and I we'll have some time
over the summer that we can go over what it will
look like, have kind of an orientation for
everybody. We'll also have that time to really
kind of set up what it looks like, time commitment
and the schedules for each team. We hope that,
when we get our mentors to be a part,
that we can make them feel a part of it, get them
some sort of athletic gear. I told that to
TWMOCAs or I wrote TWMOCAs, we'll make it
as nice as we possibly can. The more we get,
the better. And then I like Tim says, "Your
families are included." When you come to your games,
if you want to bring your family, you want to
bring your kids, those are all things that our
student athletes take with them and they can take
that to their academic side. So thank you. Next
slide on this one and I'll pass it back to Tim for
a few minutes? [Tim]: Thank you, Matt. This whole program
is designed by its very nature to be fun. It's a
positive way for us to interact with our athletes
and our student athletes and different things. So
one of the things that I've taken from this is
that it allows me the opportunity to give back to
these students that when I was in college, I never
had. And when we say bring your family, when I did
this earlier and when I was at
the police department, my sons and my daughters
were with me at these events. So they became known.
There are several people that I mentored that are
not police officers. So once we have the mentors,
we'll start the training. And this is not just for
athletes. We start with athletes. But the idea is
to include every single student who's involved in
every single activity on this campus. The time
commitment will be discussed during the training.
But most importantly, I say this, that everything
I go to, that Moorpark College is the community
and the community is Moorpark College. And these
student athletes and these other students that are
involved in events on our campus, need and deserve
our support. And that's the least we can do to
have a positive difference in their lives today.
If you have any questions, you can email myself
or Matt and I thank you very much and kudos to the
classified staff, because without you, this place
does not run. Thank you. [Matt]: Thank you, everyone.
Mary: Thank you, Matt and Tim. This is a fantastic
program. Linda, you have some exciting things for
us about some fantastic programs, right? [Linda Resendiz]: Yes,
I do. Good afternoon, everyone. I'm happy to
announce that our Kudos nomination program is
alive and well. I would like to present to you
today, the names of staff, faculty, administrators
who have been recognized by a peer. Next slide,
please? And here you are. Congratulations to all
of our Kudos nominees. Everyone has received the
nomination from a peer, just thanking them for the
fabulous work that they do and just how much they
are appreciated. Thank you, Michael, for
including the link in our chat. As you can see,
you can nominate anyone for a kudos. So I invite
you to nominate a fellow peer. Next slide, please?
My fellow classified colleagues, happy
classified appreciation week. On behalf of the
Moorpark College Classified Senate, thank you for
everything you do in contribution to the success
of our students and campus, especially during
these trying times of the Covid-19 pandemic. You
have proven that work does not stop when
challenging times arise. You have stepped up to
the challenge and have continued to work for our
campus so we can continue offering its classes and
services to our students. You have maintained the
beauty of our campus in tip top condition, kept
our technology running, kept our campus safe, and
continued providing much needed services to our
students. Know that every single one of you is
appreciated and valued. Without you, nothing would
have been able to continue. This week and always
Moorpark College is celebrating your hard work
during classified employee appreciation week.
Thank you very much. Next slide, please? And then
I would like to present to you a very special
tribute that was a video tribute that was made
with much appreciation and a big thank you that
thanks all of our classified staff, all of our
classified management for just the wonderful and
awesome work that you do. Video please?
Mary: It was great to see all the names and thank you
and the music. Great. It was great to see all of that.
Thank you, Linda. There were a couple of questions
and answers. At least three to start with.
Linda, the first question's for you. There's a
question, will they get their kudo candy bars?
Linda: I believe so, those will be available in
everyone's mailboxes, as soon as it is safely
possible. So you will see your sweet gift in your
mailbox soon. Thank you. Julius, there were two
more questions. One is related to the campus
center and the second was asking a little bit more
about what changes will happen with the health
center. I think Allison wanted to, but there were
a couple of questions asking about the campus
center. The reason why or when that would be
happening or whatever. [Julius]: Yes, so the campus center
project is part of our proposals to the state. As
many of you know, we send our projects of priority
was vetted through the campus process, through our
facilities, etc., and then it goes to the
state for funding and then they rank the projects
there at the state level and then they identify
which ones are competitive enough at that
particular point in time. And then forward those forward
and then decisions are made. We continue to be on
that list. So our campus center is still on that
list, as a project for funding. And we then just
wait to see how comparatively competitive
that particular building project is. I know that
students have been investing in this project for a
long time now. And as some of you know, a couple
of years back, when we looked at the opportunity
to try and do this with our
own internal resources, and we couldn't do it
because the budget is just phenomenal to put
together such a project. But again, you know, it's
wonderful that the resources of the students are
still there. And our goal is as the project
becomes more competitive statewide, that we will
go ahead and support it with the resources that
have been invested already.
Mary: Thank you, Julius. And as far as the food
availability on campus in the fall. The plans on
that? [Julius]: Yes. So in terms of having food on campus in
the fall, our goal and Jennifer, please correct me
if I'm wrong. Our goal is to have food trucks on
campus, at least two, I believe, and
Peter. We'll make sure that Peter comes back and is
with us, our beloved Peter, and provide warm, hot
food for students. Some of you have heard that we
we'll have, well students and staff and faculty and
administrators actually. Some of you have heard
that we will have what is called a solar village.
And I don't remember the acronyms for solar, but if
somebody does put it in the chat. But
definitely we will have opportunities for folks to
gather and eat meals in safe environment
underneath our solar arrays. Our goal for the fall
is really to make sure that for those who are on
campus, feel the warmth, feel the community that
is Moorpark College and that it is not an isolated
event where folks come on campus and leave right
away, but that they're able to stay and socialize
and engage in the learning process in its fullest
extent. [Julius]: Thank you Julius. Someone did say that they missed
the first part of the update and asked if there
was any updates fall. For working remotely. [Julius]: Okay, so in
terms of optics for working remotely, as you
know, our goal as what's been said, is to have an
up to 50 percent of our instruction that is
delivered in person on site. And we're still
moving towards that goal, working towards that
goal. The more folks get vaccinated and the more
folks feel comfortable being on campus, the more
offerings we're looking to add as resources
are available. Our goal is to make sure that we
offer instruction through the course of the fall
semester. And as we move later and later into the
fall semester, you will see that our goal is to
offer more classes on ground, as long as the
environment of supports it. In terms of working on
campus in the fall, we have always taken the
position that we look at what is needed in a
particular office or program and then we staff
based on that. So that staffing will vary based on
where you are on campus. But our goal is to make
sure that we have enough folks to help support the
students that we have on the ground and to have
resources for the students who are taking courses
remotely. So some folks will certainly be coming
back to campus in time for the fall semester and
some folks might not. It's a range. And we will
look at the many instances where folks are
building schedules that allow for folks to
choose to diversify their days on campus. And
our goal is to make sure that people work in a
safe environment and that students get the
resources and services that they need. So I don't know
if there are any specific questions around that, but
that's kind of our overarching intention and we're
working around that. If you have any questions or
concerns about working on campus or coming back,
coming back to work on campus. Please, please,
please speak to your supervisors. Speak to your
with your director, manager, and if you have
specific questions, we use these campus updates as a
way to answer those questions. So please feel free
to send Mary those questions and then we will
share them in this venue so that folks are aware.
We also have a phenomenal fall operating group
that meets every other week, Tuesdays at 4:00 p.m.,
I believe. And so send questions, come, join in and
listen to those conversations. Right now, our goal
is to make sure that we are as flexible and as
inclusive as possible. [Mary]: Thank you, Julius. And then
I think Allison, I don't know, Jennifer, or you Julius, can we get
little bit more information on what will be
happening in the health center, with the update or
renovation. [Julius]: Jennifer, do you want to take that
one? [Jennifer]: So, the renovation, like specifics on the
renovation? I mean, I know that. I'm sorry. [Mary]: Oh, I
noticed that Allison in the chat said she would
like to answer it live. [Jennifer]: Awesome. [Allison]:
So embarrassingly, I must have
pressed the wrong button,
Jennifer knows way more about it than I do,
actually. Jennifer, take it away. I'm just excited.
I was just exuberant with all the exuberance. [Jennifer]: So I can't.
Off the top of my head, I mean, I can't,
like, explain like, you know, what exactly it's
going to look like, but I know that, so the
Student Health Center within the building itself
will about double in size. There will be some
additional spaces for staff. There will be some
additional like examination rooms for students.
I mean, that's and again, a lot like double the
square footage. [Julius]: Right. The goal for this project
was to update the infrastructure of the building.
It's one of our oldest buildings on campus. And
clearly, I mean, if you've been into any of the
restrooms, you know, they're from the 1960s. And so
to make sure that we have sufficient space and
sort of an up to date facilities in that building.
It was designed into the project to
add to that component of the building. And you
will see that the offices, they're redesigning the offices of
the college president and the vice presidents, and
there's more space, additional space for some of
our other services that are in that building
currently. So I don't believe we're moving anybody
out of the building permanently. We might move
them out of the building for construction, but
folks will come back to a building that is
retrofitted for the 21st and maybe even the 22nd
century. And that's the goal.
Mary: Great. Thank you, Julius. And now we had the
opportunity to celebrate and reflect from all that
we have learned and experienced over the last year.
Julius: Yes, indeed.
Mary: Can you start the video? Thank you.
Erik Reese: Students, classified professionals, administrators
and faculty we made it. Maybe not by a whole lot,
but we made it.
Dina Pielaet: Testing, testing, one, two, three. Testing,
testing, one, two, three. Testing.
Mary: Thank you, our next Moorpark Update will be June
21. We look forward to seeing you then. Have a
great summer. We'll see you June
21. Thank you. Julius? Final comments? [Julius]: Yes. Thank you
so much to Dina Pielaet for the videos that we've seen
today. I appreciate your creativity and your
astute way of capturing the sense of this
campus community. Just to reiterate, it is our
resilience that propels us forward. It is our
kindness and our caring for one another that
sustains us. And it is our sense of innovation as
a campus community that allows us not only to
excel, that allows us to realize where we need to
do better. I encourage you all to please, please,
please work with our community and then let them
know that we are not closed, that we remain open,
that we've been open all year long, and that we
are transitioning instruction back to campus, some
of the instruction back to campus and that we are
in need of students. It is a safe place to learn,
is a safe place to work. It is a safe place to be
on our campus. For those of you who
have been vaccinated. Thank you so much for
looking out for your own well-being and the
well-being of others. For those of you who are
questioning the vaccination, everybody, please
take it at your own pace. But we ask you to please,
please, please think of how you can keep yourself
safe and keep the rest of our community safe.
Graduation is on Thursday. We welcome and
encourage you to please show up and support our
students, show up and support our students. If you have not
been on campus, this is a wonderful opportunity to
come back and visit the campus.
We at Moorpark College, know what matters. Our students
is where we begin this work. We celebrate our
classified professionals. We celebrate each and
every one of our students. And I thank the faculty,
I thank the staff, I thank our administrators,
because this past year would not be possible. The
successes of this past year would not be possible
without your vision, without your caring, and
definitely would not be possible without your love
of our campus community. For those of you who will
be taking some time, much earned and much needed
time off during the summer, we look forward to
having you back with us in August. Our goal is to
have Convocation on campus in August. And we look
forward to seeing your smiling faces. We look
forward to seeing your healthy and well adjusted
and well rested beings with us on August, I
believe it's August 16, 2021. Thank
you and have a great rest of the week. Happy
Classified Professionals Appreciation Week. Goodbye.