Career and Technical Education Center, 220 Ruger Road, Prescott, AZ 86301 | Because of Covid, attendance by public will be online only

The Yavapai College District Governing Board will hold a Workshop one Tuesday, November 16, 2021  from 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. at the Career and Technical Education Center,  220 Ruger Road,  Prescott, AZ 86301.  Because of concerns over the increase in Covid-19, the public may attend the workshop meeting online only via YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/YavapaiCollege. There will be no Call to the Public on the agenda for this Workshop meeting.

Suddenly and without explanation College posts only an agenda summary without attachments, which reduces significant information being given to public in advance of meeting the Board will discuss and/or approve; has yet to post video of last month’s  meeting, breaking with years of precedent; Governing Board appears to go along with sudden change to limit information to the public prior to meeting and non-posting of video recordings

The Yavapai Community College District Governing Board will hold its monthly General Public Meeting on Tuesday, November 9, 2021, at 1:00 p.m. at the Rock House on the Prescott Campus in Prescott, Arizona. 

Under Arizona law, the public has a right to attend, listen, tape record or videotape these meetings. The public may not disrupt, but may speak during the call to the public at the beginning of this meeting if the call is on the agenda. See Ariz. Att’y Gen. Op. No. I78-001.

The Community College has suddenly changed its decade-long policy of providing the attachments on-line when it announces the agenda for the meeting.  This reduces a significant amount of information relevant to the agenda that the public might find useful in deciding whether to make a 150-200 mile round-trip drive to attend.

Note that the process followed for the last decade has been to provide as much information to the general public about the agenda on-line prior to the meeting. Also note that The Yavapai Community College  District covers all of Yavapai County consisting of 8,125 square miles. The size of the County  is comparable  to states such as Connecticut (5,543 sq. miles — 12 community colleges and universities), Delaware (1,982 sq. miles — three community colleges and universities), Rhode Island (1,214 sq. miles— one public and two private community colleges)  and New Jersey (8,723 sq. miles — 19 community colleges and universities). The state of Israel encompasses  8,550 square miles (ten universities and 53 colleges).

In some cases, a person might have to make a 150-200 mile round trip in Yavapai County to attend Community College Board  meeting.

Also note that the Community College has not posted the videotape of the October meeting on the October web site, once again breaking with a years-long precedent set by the Governing Board to keep the residents of the huge County properly informed.  

Apparently, the Community College Governing Board has accepted the new policy of providing the public with as little information as it can legally get away with  when it comes to various Board meetings.

The Yavapai Community College District Governing Board will hold its monthly General Open Public Meeting on Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. at the Rock House on the Prescott Campus in Prescott, Arizona. 

Under Arizona law, the public has a right to attend, listen, tape record or videotape these meetings. The public may not disrupt, but may speak during the call to the public at the beginning of this meeting if the call is on the agenda. See Ariz. Att’y Gen. Op. No. I78-001.

Possible goal is to hammer out revisions to a policy manual the Governing Board will use to  operate under; other matters may be raised although the present notice has no indication that will be the case

The Yavapai Community College District Governing Board has set aside three days for work on possibly revising a policy manual that was tentatively approved earlier in the year.   Numerous questions were raised about the manual by Third District Governing Board Representative Paul Chevalier.  It appears that this may be one of the reasons for the three-day “Board Study Sessions” now listed on the Governing Board’s web site.

The “Study Sessions” will begin September 7 at 9 am. and will run to 4 p.m.  each day.   The sessions are scheduled for September 7, 8 and 9.

The workshops are  calling for an unusual sacrifice of time and energy for members of the Board, all of whom are elected but unpaid, to spend this amount of time on Board policy.  It is possible other issues will be discussed although there is no indication of that so far.

Such meetings by law are open to the public although the public will  not be able to ask any questions.

Retreat scheduled to run from 9:00 to 4:00 p.m. each Friday and Saturday; may be viewed on zoom

The Yavapai Community College District Governing Board will hold a two-day retreat on Friday and Saturday, February 26-27.  The retreat begins at 9:00 a.m. each day and is scheduled to conclude at 4:00 p.m. 

The retreat will be held on zoom. The public may view the retreat proceedings by going to the Community College YouTube website, which is https://www.youtube.com/user/YavapaiCollege.

Unlike regular Governing Board meetings, there will not be an opportunity for the community to the speak to the Board at an open call.

Members of the public may provide comments to the Board during Open Call to the Public via Zoom but must first register by 5 p.m. Monday, November 16  

Link to Tuesday meeting: https://www.youtube.com/user/YavapaiCollege

The Yavapai Community College District Governing Board will hold a general meeting on zoom on Tuesday, November 17, 2020 beginning at 1:00 p.m.   For the November Board Meeting, members of the public may provide comments to the Board during Open Call to the Public via Zoom. In order to participate, you will need to register in advance of the Board Meeting.

For those wishing to address the Governing Board, registration will close at Monday, November 16, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. As with in-person comments, each member of the public will be limited to three (3) minutes. You will also need to complete the Yavapai College District Governing Board Request to Speak – OPEN CALL electronic form.

The public may view the proceedings on zoom by going to https://www.youtube.com/user/YavapaiCollege. At the YouTube site, look around a bit and you should see a box on the left of the screen where  the meeting will appear at 1 p.m.   You must click in that box to see and hear the meeting.

You may view the full agenda for Tuesday’s meeting by clicking here.

No open call for the public

Link to meeting : https://www.youtube.com/user/YavapaiCollege

The Yavapai Community College District Governing Board will hold a general meeting on zoom on Tuesday, October 20, 2020 beginning at 1:00 p.m. 

The public may view the proceedings on zoom by going to the above link.

At the Youtube site, look around a bit and you should see a box on the left of the screen where  the meeting will appear at 1 p.m.   You must click in that box at 1 p.m. to see and hear the meeting. There is no open call for the public to voice its views to the Governing Board.

You may view the full agenda for Tuesday’s meeting by clicking here. https://www.yc.edu/v6/district-governing-board/sub/2020/10/dgb-full-agenda.pdf

Online Only; Link is https://www.youtube.com/user/YavapaiCollege; no open call for the public; Verde Valley Skilled Trade Center to be discussed; Mitch Padilla  to join Board

The Yavapai Community College District Governing Board will hold a general meeting on zoom on Tuesday, September 8, 2020 beginning at 1:00 p.m.  The public may view the proceedings on zoom by going to https://www.youtube.com/user/YavapaiCollege. At the youtube site, look around a bit and you should see a box with the meeting appear in it.  You must click in that box to see the meeting.

You may view the agenda for Tuesday’s meeting by clicking here. 

On the agenda for discussion and possible decision is the question of locating a Verde Valley Skilled Trade Center.  The discussion of that potential project will be led by Vice President Clint Ewell.

This will also be the first meeting for Mr. Mitch Padilla, the new representative from District #5.  He will take the seat left vacant  by Mr. Steve Irwin who decided  to run for Yavapai County Supervisor.  Mr. Irwin lost in the primary election earlier this year.

The  meeting will be Online Only; you may sign in on your computer or other device to view the meeting

Yavapai Community College District Governing Board will hold a public meeting,  via zoom, on July 28, 2020 at 2.00 p.m.

 Open Call will not be included on July’s meeting agenda.

The College has provided a link that will take you to a site where after looking around a bit, you should see a box with the meeting appearing in it.  You will have to click in that box to see the meeting. 

The link provided by the College that will take you to the initial site  is https://www.youtube.com/user/YavapaiCollege.

The full agenda for the meeting and information regarding the video link can be found at https://www.yc.edu/v6/district-governing-board/sub/2020/07/regular-meeting-agenda-full-attachements-07-28-2020.pdf.

Although not announced yet, most likely to be online zoom meeting

The Yavapai Community College has announced it will hold a regular District Governing Board meeting on July 20, 2020 at 2 p.m.

Although not yet announced, it is likely that this will be a zoom meeting.  The College will notify citizens if a zoom meeting replaces the regular meeting that would usually be held on the Prescott Campus at the Rock House.

More information to follow.