CCCC trustees approve master plan
The Cloud County Community College board of trustees approved a campus facilities master plan that will allow President Amber Knoettgen to implement and execute strategically for the college during its regular meeting on Tuesday.
GLMV Architects, Wichita, prepared the master plan that was presented to the board of trustees during its annual retreat on June 7.
Three planning horizons were used in developing the master plan: one year, five years, and 10 years.
Working with the master plan steering committee, comprised of senior administrators, faculty, staff, and students, goals and derivative objectives were identified and refined. This established parameters within which the GLMV team was to work, indicating aspirations, expectations, and priorities.
The priorities selected in the master plan project were categorized by the facilities committee and communicated to GLMV Architecture, which designed and developed the plan with the college's community involvement.
The college conducted multiple feedback sessions with students, faculty, and staff during the fall 2022 semester.
The 10-year master plan will be used as a guide to develop a capital campaign to raise the needed dollars for each of the priorities identified.
There were 14 priorities identified for the master plan.
The top priority listed on the master plan was the construction of the Technical Education and Innovation Center.
Construction of the Technical Education and Innovation Center began in April. The facility will house the college's renewable energy, nursing and allied health, and agriculture and industrial technology departments.
The remaining priorities listed, in order, include a front entrance and welcome center, a new athletic facility, a new residence life hall, student affairs and student services, online ad outreach, IT expansion, faculty offices, Cook Theatre, a new student engagement center, new multi-purpose space, business faculty department, new faculty collaboration area, and the president's suite renovation.
Implementation of the master plan depends on the availability of funding and other variables.
In other action taken during the meeting, the board approved a bid for roof repairs from Geisler Roofing in the amount of $532,811.56 that includes a 10 percent contingency in the amount of 53,281.15 for a total of $586,092.72.
Roof repairs will be made to the main building the President's Addition, Tech West, and Tech East.
“We are having constant leaks. We spent a lot of money on the infrastructure project last year, so we have got to fix the leaks it the roofs,” vice president for administrative services Caesar Wood said.
The roof repairs will have a 10-year warranty.
The board also approved the renewal of the college's property, general liability, business automobile, educator's legal liability, cyber, crime and excess liability insurance for fiscal year 2024 with IMA in the amount of $227,960 and the renewal of the worker's compensation insurance coverage with IMA in the amount of $37,441.
The cost of the insurance coverage increased 26 percent from $211,040 in 2023 to $265,401.
“Overall it is a 26 percent increase,” Wood said, “We have been very, very fortunate last year and the year before,” Wood said.
A bid from Square One Flooring of $37,077.13 to replace the flooring in the President's Addition was approved by the board.
The carpet in rooms 256, 257 and 258 will be removed and replaced with carpet squares. The flooring in the landing and walkways will also be replaced.
The board approved a bid from Sallman Builders of $55,893.83 to place the fencing at the softball field.
The Cloud County Community College Foundation contributed $23,500 for the project and the college will cover the remaining $32,393.83.
Authorizing Knoettgen to request from the college foundation not more than $150,00 for the scholarship program was approved.
Included under personnel in the consent agenda approved by the board was the hiring of Deb Monzon as the assistant volleyball coach.
Monzon retired as Cloud County's head volleyball coach. She had coached a total of 19 years over two stints from 1983-1996 and 2018-2022.
Hilta Ramos, who was the assistant coach for the Thunderbirds, was hired to replace Monzon as head coach.
Also included under the personnel items was the hiring of Stephanie Clark, Fort Riley, as the TRIO academic coordinator at the Geary County Campus, effective July 5.
A graduate of Barry University with a bachelor of arts degree in psychology, Clark was an education counselor for Indtai, Inc. in Fort Rucker, Ala from April 2022-January 2023.
The board met in executive session for 20 minutes for negotiations with Knoettgen, Wood, interim vice president for academic affairs Brandon Galm, vice president for student services Brandt Hutchinson, human resources director Chris Wilson, and attorney Justin Ferrell.