June 9, 2021 SMCCCD Board of Trustees Meeting:
Discussion of campus reopening issues
Click on the links below to watch specific sections of the discussion:
- Mike Claire on draft policy parameters
- Mike Claire on reopening campuses
- Public Comments:
- J. Carson: “You should already have a map of ventilation of all of your buildings, every room should have already been assessed and the information publicly available…”
- Lori Slicton: “Who is going to enforce mandates for masks, social distancing… concerns about vulnerable family members… how can new in-person sections be added in one-person departments?…
- Vera Quijano: Concerns about faculty members’ role and expectations of enforcing health rules
- Marianne Kaletzky: Concerns about faculty and staff not being allowed to give regular feedback on reopening, including campus health and safety committees not meeting regularly or over the summer and not publishing minutes since 2019
- Rosemary Bell: Concerns about building ventilation not being assessed and documented
- Jeremiah Sims comments (read by Vice Chancellor Bailey): Questioning trauma of BIPOC students being used as a rationale to accelerate reopening timeline
- Michele Hawkins: Concerns about separating students and faculty based on their personal medical information, and vaccine mandate.
- Stephanie Wells: Concerns of classified employee regarding returning to work in a “legacy” building.
- Mike Claire on question of requiring vaccinations
- Ray Hernandez on vaccine resources
- Mike Claire on question of increasing on-campus course offerings and student support services
- Beginning of Trustees discussion
- José Nuñez and Michele Rudovsky respond to Trustee Goodman’s questions on building ventilation assessment
- Trustee Goodman asks about Chancellor Claire’s comment that students of color are less likely to get vaccinated
- Start of further general Board discussion of reopening issues