August 10, 2020

IPBT Notes – August 10, 2020

Administrative reps: Sam Bliss, Randy Bryant, Alicia Cortez, Christina Espinosa-Pieb, Anita Muthyala-Kandula, Lorrie Ranck, Thomas Ray

Classified reps: Thomas Bailey, Dana Kennedy

Faculty reps: Ed Ahrens, Cheryl Balm, Mayra Cruz, Terrence Mullens, Mary Pape, Danny Solomon, Erik Woodbury

Student reps: Arushi, Lorna Maynard

Absent: Grace Lim

Guests: Diana Alves de Lima, Francesca Caparas, Vins Chacko, Mary Donahue, Moaty Fayek, Milena Grozeva, Melinda Hughes, Lisa Markus, Eric Mendoza, Khoa Nguyen, Mallory Newell, Edmundo Norte, Kim Palmore, Elvin Ramos, Tim Shively, Daniel Smith, Felisa Vilaubi, Pauline Wethington, Wendy White

Approval of Notes July 28 were approved.

DASB Report – not available at this time.

Governance Review – Christina Espinosa-Pieb began the meeting by welcoming members of APASA, BFSA and DALA who will join the IPBT members to engage in the conversation about re-thinking or re-organization our current shared governance structures and upcoming budget reductions.  Some of the members may change once we are all back in the fall, but each affinity group is committed to having officially appointed representatives at each meeting.  Christina also reminded everyone that the IPBT, as currently structured, may not even exist a year from now (so none of these committee appointments are permanent beyond this year).  However, as agreed to at the last meeting, having more voices in the current conversation about our shared governance process and budget reductions is an advantage for our campus community.

As agreed to at the last meeting, one of the proposals was to go to a tri-chair model that would include a Classified Senate Representative. Christina let everyone know that she contacted Heidi King (Classified Senate, president elect) regarding this request to see if someone would like to serve as a tri-chair with Christina Espinosa-Pieb and Mary Pape. Heidi is currently working on that request and is taking it to the Classified Senate for discussion and confirmation.

Below are the representatives who were introduced and welcomed to the IPBT:

(APASA) the Asian Pacific American Staff Association Representative

• Khoa Nguyen, APASA Secretary, MPS Counselor
• Francesca Caparas – Instructor (EWRT)

(BFSA) Black Faculty, Staff and Administrators Network Representative

• Melinda Hughes, Ed.D., BFSA President, EOPS Director
• Pauline Wethington- Counseling Division Counselor

(DALA) De Anza Latinx Association Representative

• Eric Mendoza, Dean, Physical Education and Athletics
• Felisa Vilaubi – Language Arts Division Counselor

Summarize responses from Google form and prepare responses to be submitted – Mary Pape, sharing IPBT’s compiled responses to Dr. Holmes' questions, asked the team if they have any questions, follow ups, comments or additions that they want to add to a Google form. She instructed them to go to the Google form and enter their responses. As approved by College Council in June 2020, IPBT is reviewing its governance structure and processes, with a particular focus on equity and inclusion. President Lloyd Holmes has initiated the review by inviting all governance groups to complete a survey by Aug. 14. Each PBTs entered their own response online.

Budget Update & Group Discussion – The potential reduction plan to the District is $11M determined by the Chancellor Cabinet: De Anza’s reduction: 50 % ($5.75M), 35 % ($4.025M) Foothill and 15 % ($1.725M) for Central Services. 

Ratios proposed by De Anza Senior Staff for its $5.75 million "share" of the reduction were 61% ($3.5M) for Instruction, 35% ($2M) for Student Services and 4%($250K) for Administrative Services.

https://www.deanza.edu/gov/sspbt/documents/2020-21/BudgetUpdate-7-15-20_updated.pdf

http://business.fhda.edu/_downloads/3rd%20Qtr%2019-20%20Report.pdf   2019-2020, or

https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/fhda/Board.nsf/files/BQ8S8671553A/$file/2020-21%20Tentative%20Budget.pdf 2020-2021

Possible Structural/Logistic Changes – As an acknowledgement of the systemic racism built into our current shared governance structure, which has led to little or no change in the equity gap numbers for Black, Latinx and Philippinx students, the conversation turned to college values and goals. Everyone agreed that the current understanding for decision making criteria should center around equity.  However, in an effort to align with the campus as a whole, the question was raised about the college values and goals that should be leading our current efforts. Christina agreed to follow-up with President Holmes about the values and goals that should guide our current decision-making process and will get that information out to everyone through email next week.  Christina also agreed to work with Mary on some criteria – just for thought – that IPBT members could consider, change or completely reject at our upcoming meeting.

Future meetings are tentatively scheduled:

• August 25th, 3:00 - 5:00 pm
• September 8th, 3:00 - 5:00 pm
• September 15th, 3:00 - 5:00 pm