June 17, 2025

Attendance, Voting Members:

Jayme Brown, Alicia De Toro, Lydia Hearn, Michelle Hernandez, Adrienne Hypolite, Simon Kang’a, Mallory Newell, Tim Shively, Erik Woodbury, Christina Wright

Absent: Erick Aragon, Sam Bliss, Sushini Chand, Nazy Galoyan, Garrett King, Kyle Krawez, Alan Ma, Eric Mendoza, Rob Mieso, Alicia Mullens, Martin Varela

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Instructional Equipment Update

Lydia Hearn: At the last College Council meeting she reported on the status of the Instructional Equipment Fund that has been going down without additional funding from the state. The available amount will be $1.1 million. She informed them that RAPP made the decision to put aside $100,000 for the VPI contingency fund. Then allocate $500,000 for 25-26, $500,000 for 26-27.

Lydia worked with the deans to reduce their requests to absolute needs to sustain programs. They got the amount down to $650,000 - $700,000. Since they were not able to get the amount down to $500,000, they will have come back to this matter in the fall.

New VPI Ram Subramaniam will try to move some of the requests to the lottery fund. He will be working the deans and divisions to find other funding. If there should still be a shortage, then in the fall they will have to look through the actual items and make decisions.

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Large group discussion of Round 1 rankings

The meeting did not reached quorum until later at 10:18 am.  With half of the votmg members present at this point, their only option was to move the large group discussion to the fall.

Mallory Newell reminded everyone that in the fall RAPP will be engaged in the round 2 Personnel Prioritization Process. These will be for the full time faculty positions that became vacant between May 1st and September 30th. RAPP will prioritize those requests with high, moderate, or low ranking. 

The position requests from rounds 1 and 2 will be combined to be re-prioritized. The committee will discuss and come to a consensus on all the positions. Then, RAPP will advance its recommendation of faculty, classified, and administrative positions to the college council based on available funding.

Also, next year RAPP will be engaged in the second year of the annual program review. They will be reviewing and providing feedback. That will be followed by the comprehensive program review in the year 26-27.

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Reminders:

Mallory asked everyone to provide feedback on the Annual Governance Assessment survey. This will help with Reflections and Improvements for RAPP.

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Approval of Minutes (June 3; June 10)

No objections. Minutes approved.