Board meetings, strategic plans, and buyer signals from Nicholas Valsamides’s organization
Jan 7, 2026·StrategicPlan
Board
Goals 2026
This document outlines the Board of Trustees' goals for 2026, encompassing a strategic action plan, fiduciary responsibilities, and board effectiveness. Key areas include monitoring the completion of strategic objectives, ensuring accreditation compliance, enhancing student learning and success through initiatives like Guided Pathways and CTE programs, fostering community engagement, and promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and anti-racism. It also addresses long-range financial planning, internal controls, and strengthening trustee knowledge and collaboration.
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The agenda includes a study session on transition to independent living, public comments on closed session items, and a closed session covering employee performance evaluations, discipline, negotiations, potential litigation, student discipline, real property negotiations, and superintendent/president appointment. Open session items include a foundation update, approval of minutes, and new business such as mold remediation requests, revisions to collective bargaining agreements, and review of board policies. The consent agenda covers a range of approvals including program purchases, agreements, licensing adjustments, consultant agreements, and maintenance renewals. Additional items include public comment on general interests, employment actions, financial reports, trustee reports, and a superintendent/president report.
Jul 9, 2025·BoardMeeting
Board
West Kern Community College District Agenda for Regular Meeting
The agenda includes a study session on facility and campus signage, public comment on closed session items, and a closed session covering employee performance evaluations, discipline, labor negotiations, potential litigation, student discipline, real property negotiations, and employee appointments. Open session items include the flag salute, public comment, general communications, approval of minutes, and new business such as a request for approval for the Taft College G-8 Allied Health Lab Remodel Project, CSEA Job Creation -- Lead Career Education Coordinator, proposed revisions to Classified Collective Bargaining Agreement, and a first reading of proposed revisions to Classified Collective Bargaining Agreement -- Appendix F -- Benefits Highlights. The consent agenda includes items such as the Final Project Proposal (FPP) for the Taft College Vocational Center, the 2027-2031 Five-Year Capital Outlay Plan (5YCOP), and various requests for approval and ratification related to agreements, contracts, and renewals. Additional topics include public comment on items of general interest, employment actions, financial reports, trustee reports, academic senate reports, reports from staff and student organizations, and the superintendent/president's report.
May 14, 2025·BoardMeeting
Board
West Kern Community College District Agenda For Regular Meeting
The agenda for the Regular Meeting included a Study Session recapping the Annual Trustee Conference. Closed Session discussions covered public employee performance evaluations, labor negotiations, potential litigation, student discipline matters, and real property negotiations concerning the Parkside Development, LLC property sale or lease. Open Session items featured a presentation on the Associated Student Organization and the approval of the Educational Master Plan 2025-2035. New business also included ratification of an amendment to an LSA contract for coordination and field surveys for the Hillard/Sunset Property, second reading and approval for revisions to Board Policies BP #4100 (Graduation Requirements) and BP #5500 (Standards of Student Conduct), and the approval of a resolution honoring Student Trustee Jay Cuevas. The extensive Consent Agenda covered numerous items, including program and course revisions, grant agreement ratification with the CSU for the CAPP project, approval for off-campus residential leasing agreements for the TIL Program, professional services contracts, capital project approvals (Library 311 Distance Learning Project), and renewal of various subscriptions and agreements.
Extracted from official board minutes, strategic plans, and video transcripts.
