ECC board sets fee for student use of fitness center

In a meeting on Dec. 13, the Elgin Community College District 509 Board of Trustees took the following actions:

• Approved a $3 per visit fitness center fee beginning spring 2008. Currently, only those students conditioning with a team or enrolled in certain physical fitness classes have access to the fitness center. By establishing a $3 fee, other students can use the fitness center.

• Approved the minutes of Nov. 13.

• Approved changes to the following board policies: governance process, board/president relationship, executive parameters and goals.

• Approved the public viewing of released minutes from 14 closed sessions held May to October, 2007.

• Approved the destruction of verbatim recordings from eight closed session meetings held Dec. 8, 2005 to May 9, 2006.

• Approved the elimination of fees charged by the career services department for job posting service subscriptions and on-campus recruitment activities.

• Approved the following trustees to attend the 2008 Community College Legislative Summit in Washington, D.C.: John Duffy, Phyllis Folarin, Clare Ollayos and student trustee Sarah Keissami.

• Authorized the administration to request the transfer of title to the college and the transfer of any remaining funds held by the Public Building Commission to acquire the Fountain Square Campus real estate from the city of Elgin and the completion of the lease of that land from the Kane County PBC by the college, legal title to the real estate would be conveyed by the PBC to the college.

• Approved the purchase of HVAC maintenance services from National Heat and Power in Skokie, in the amounts of $80, $78, $80 and $78 per hour for sheet metal foreman and journeyman, and pipe fitter foreman and journeyman, respectively.

• Approved the purchase of electrical maintenance services from Max Electric in Schaumburg, in the amounts of $65 and $63 per hour for electrical foreman and journeyman, respectively.

• Approved the purchase of plumbing maintenance services from F.J. Bero in Elgin, in the amount of $72.25 and $71 per hour for plumbing foreman and journeyman, respectively.

• Approved the purchase of classroom furniture from the manufacturer KI, utilizing the Illinois Public Higher Education Cooperative pricing, in an amount not to exceed $70,124.10.

• Approved the purchase of digital visual presenters from Camcor Inc., Burlington, N.C., in an amount not to exceed $11,540.58.

• Approved the purchase of computer supplies for the computer and information sciences department from Netrix, LLC, Bannockburn, in an amount not to exceed $19,678.30.

• Approved the purchase of printing and mailing services of the ECCentials newsletter from P and P Press, Peoria, in an amount not to exceed $13,872.

• Approved the purchase of printing, binding, finishing and mailing services of the spring 2008 noncredit class schedule from Warner Offset in South Elgin, in an amount not to exceed $21,818.

• Approved the purchase of one Apple Mobile Learning Lab from Apple, Inc., for visual and performing arts in an amount not to exceed $25,633.15.

• Approved the purchase of a single-user licensed copy of GAOM Excel-based software from Ballad Engineering in Rockford, for $20,000 for the cogeneration engines in calendar year 2008.

• Approved the purchase of a three-megawatt block of electrical power from Constellation Energy, Chicago, to be used during peak energy hours from Jan. 10, 2008, to Jan. 10, 2009.

• Approved the purchase of 220 chairs from the manufacturer KI, utilizing the Illinois Public Higher Education Cooperative pricing, in an amount not to exceed $21,847.86.

• Approved the contract for emergency repair of the Student Resource Center boiler from Atlas Boiler, Elgin, in an amount not to exceed $30,500.

• Approved the compensation rate for non-unit adjunct faculty members who are not part of the bargaining unit represented by the Elgin Community College Faculty Association for the years 2008, 2009 and 2010.

• Accepted the following gifts: cash for the women's basketball and softball teams; aluminum for the welding program; cash for the mock trial team; cars for the automotive program; career clothing for use by participants in the Alternatives/Workforce Transitions program; and tools, cut-off Delron and student project heat treat for the industrial manufacturing technology program.

• Approved the hiring of Fredrick Vogt, instructor of biology, effective January 2008.

• Approved two-year employment contracts beginning July 1, 2007, and ending June 30, 2009, for Gena Glickman, vice president of teaching, learning and student development, and Carole Robertson, vice president of finance and administration.

• Approved resolutions of appreciation for Gordon Hartje who retired Dec. 7, 2007, and Barbara Backley, Janice Dittman and Judith Lego-Straily who will retire Dec. 31, 2007.

For information on all board actions, visit www.elgin.edu/boardoftrustees, click on current agenda.

The next meeting of the board will be Jan. 15, with a closed session at 6 p.m. in the Fox Valley University and Business Center, 1700 Spartan Drive, Elgin. A public meeting follows at 7 p.m. in UBC's Seigle Auditorium.