CCCC trustees approve Microsoft contract

A one-year agreement with Microsoft and setting the date for its retreat were items approved by the Cloud County Community College board of trustees during its regular meeting Tuesday night.
The Microsoft agreement allows college faculty and staff to install any version of Microsoft operating systems and any version of Microsoft Office. It also allows faculty and staff access to the software for home computers and includes software assurance. That means that any time a new software version is released during the contract period, the college is automatically entitled to use the newest version.
The agreement also allows Cloud County students to access a Microsoft license on their computers.
The college is purchasing the license through Insight Public Sector, under a competitively sourced contract, at a cost of $19,575.20 to be paid from tech fees.
Amber Knoettgen, vice president for administrative services, informed the trustees that the college's three-year contract with Microsoft had a cost of $22,784 per year.
“So this does come at a little bit of a lower rate,” Knoettgen said.
In other action taken, the board approved setting November 9 as the date for its annual board of trustees retreat.
Included in the consent items approved by the board was the hiring of Rebecca Woolever, Fort Riley, to the full-time KPERS covered position of admissions counselor at the Geary County campus.
Tom Roberts, director of information technology, and Jessica LeDuc, coordinator of marketing, gave the board a presentation on the college's new website.
The new website was live last week.
During its March meeting, the board approved the hiring of Applewood Interactive to redesign the college's website at a cost of $23,220.
Casey Clarke, the lead designer for Applewood, worked directly with the college staff to redesign the site and provided training.
“It has been received well, I think,” Roberts said.
Roberts said that the new website is more mobile friendly.
Dr. Adrian Douglas, during her president's report, announced the resignations of Jamie Durler, instructor in English and speech; Kim Wagner, student retention specialist at the Geary County campus; Madi Bryant, special events coordinator and assistant softball coach; and Ryan Roat, network administrator.
Bryant was hired as the college's advisement office manager.
Presenting the report for Pedro Leite, the vice president of academic affairs and student success, Douglas said that the mental health counselor was on campus on Mondays and Thursdays.
The college is looking at hiring a full-time mental health counselor to be on campus. There was an increase in fees to cover those costs.
Trustee Tom Tuggle asked what the justification would be in having a mental health professional on campus full-time.
“Because what we have now is not sufficient,” Douglas said, “We have a need to have someone here full time.”
The board met in two executive sessions for a total of 35 minutes with Douglas, Knoettgen, college attorney Justin Ferrell and human resources director Chris Wilson for the purpose of discussing negotiations. No action was taken.