Remarks by Torchio Feaster
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Very much recording in progress that brings it down to the land acknowledgement statement and I will turn it over to trustee Wilkins who I believe is going to help us out and read that force please
Thank you Trustee Wilkins. Trustees, that brings us down to approval of the agenda. Trustees have been provided with the agenda in advance. Are there any changes or additions to the agenda?
If I might, I would like to make an addition.
I'd like to add the resolution restand still under board action.
There's support? Support. Support by Trustee Baskett. Any discussion?
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Thank you. That brings us down to board committee reports, and I will turn it over to the Finance and Planning Committee and ask what occurred at their most recent meeting.
Thank you very much. I will turn it over to myself for the Governance Committee report. The Governance Committee did meet and we did plan the agendas for the month of October. One of the issues, and I'm asking for trustees to weigh in on it, that we had robust discussion around was about the planning session the retreat that trusted vice president Wilkes is planning and I know there was some discussion we wanted to have here and I don't know if you want to introduce it but or trustee Muhammad wants to well I just wanted to clarify that it's actually a work work study session not a retreat…
If you want, we can start talking about it right now if you want. You mean the 21st? Absolutely. Clarify the date. I think we're going to do it now. No, no, clarify the date of the meeting.
I think the discussion we had, and Trustee Muhammad can build upon what I'm going to say here, but I think the discussion was whether or not we have that meeting on October 21st. Or we have it after the election when we know who the new trustees are going to be so they can be in the room and take firsthand knowledge and hear what's going to be happening so they soak in the transition rather than doing it before they're elected. And that is the heated, robust debate that we had in the governance committee meeting, and we're bringing it here now so that the rest of the trustees can weigh in on…
I see Trustee Muhammad's hand up. I know she's passionate about this.
Trustee Norton hasn't spoken yet, so why don't we let Trustee Norton go first?
I saw Trustee Muhammad, then I saw Vice President Wilks.
It's been moved by Trustee Wilk, Vice President Wilks and supported by Trustee Schmidt that we set the October 21st date as the date for the, what are you calling it?
Is there any discussion? Trustee Muhammad.
We can flip the dates, she said, yes. And my discussion point would be, As I told Vice President Wilkes, I'm not sure how much value I see in the transition meeting, but I'm willing to do it if you all want to do it. I don't know that we're going to pour into each other much in terms of helping with the transition. So I don't know that that's going to be super helpful, in my opinion. I guess I tend to agree with Trustee Muhammad and Trustee Norton that if we're going to do a transition or pre-transition meeting, it makes more sense to me to do it with the people who are going to actually take…
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Thank you so much. I see Trustee Muhammad's hand first.
And that will bring us down to 8.3, our monthly budget monitoring report for August 2026.
All right. Thank you all so much. Greatly appreciate it. All right. Looks like that brings us to 8.4 in the budget audit.
After that, great news. That brings us to second briefing at 9.1 AN2294 CTE program lease agreement.
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