CLC approves contract for new president, equipment
At their Dec. 19 meeting, the College of Lake County Board of Trustees unanimously approved a three-year contract for Dr. Lori M. Suddick, who will become the college's seventh president.
The contract runs from May 1, 2018, through June 30, 2021. Since 2009, Suddick has served as vice president of learning and chief academic officer for Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Board Chair Richard A. Anderson explained that Dr. Suddick's experience as one of 40 leaders selected for the 2016-17 inaugural Aspen Presidential Fellowship for Community College Excellence was one of the factors in the board's decision.
Facilities Director Mike Welch provided a detailed presentation on version two of the Sustainable Campus Master Plan, covering 2018 to 2022. The board voted to approve the plan's concept, which includes the following projects, but will revisit related funding issues at its board retreat in February:
• Completing the Capital Development Board phase one Science and Engineering Building and starting renovation phases two through five.
• Expansion and renovation the Lakeshore Campus in Waukegan, a CDB funded project.
• Athletic building and playing field renovations, including replacement and relocation of the aging baseball field and tennis courts to an open space along Washington Street in Grayslake. A new building will house restrooms, concessions and storage, and a new fence will enhance security and safety.
• A new 125,000- to 155,000-square-foot building to house the Center for Health and Wellness.
• Additional classrooms and faculty office updates, including working with the Lake County High School Technology Campus to either upgrade the existing culinary classrooms and equipment rented by CLC's hospitality and culinary management program or move the teaching facility to the CLC Grayslake Campus.
• Adding a veterans center at the Grayslake Campus.
• Major college deferred maintenance projects, including adding energy-efficient LED lighting on all three campuses.
• Critical technology and security projects.
• Project management to ensure the work is performed in the most sustainable manner possible.
• Deferred maintenance on electrical service, ventilation, building envelopes, interior finishes as well as energy conservation and life-safety projects.
• Landscape management: improvements to Sun Pivot Circle at the Grayslake Campus main entrance and replacing the 70 ash trees lost due to emerald ash borer damage.
The board also approved purchasing $80,394 worth of new equipment for the Grayslake Campus Fitness Center to replace outdated and unusable equipment that was up to 20 years old.
Because of the quick turnaround needed to remove the old and install new equipment before the beginning of spring semester classes, the board waived the obsolete equipment policy, allowing CLC to donate 15 pieces of cardio and strength training equipment (valued at up to $10,000) to the Lake County Regional Office of Education Regional Safe Schools Program.
Roycealee Wood, regional superintendent of schools, said she heard that the CLC equipment was being replaced through RSSP Principal Mike Munda. Wood then called CLC Interim President Dr. Rich Haney to discuss the idea earlier this fall.
Munda said all the program's students have daily physical education time in the Zion school's gym, but with sometimes just nine students per class, it's difficult to play team sports.
Wood said that the RSSP has rented space at the old Zion High School for 19 years but is looking for new space more centrally located in Lake County. She said the old high school will be torn down this summer, necessitating the program's relocation for fall 2018.
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