Changes in membership to the Board of Trustees of Illinois Eastern Community Colleges, were announced during the regular meeting Tuesday, January 18, at Lincoln Trail College, Robinson.
Board of Trustee members received notification of the retirement of Trustee Al Henager. Trustee Henager joined the Board in 2015. The Board of Trustees is charged with establishing policy for the financing, governance, operation, and administration of Illinois Eastern Community Colleges. Seven voting members are elected from the District at large, each serving a six-year term.
Student Maggee Bleyer was seated to fill a vacancy to serve as Student Trustee. Ms. Bleyer, a Wabash Valley College student, will serve as student representative to the Board, until the next regular election of a student trustee to the Board in April 2022.
The Board approved a facility usage agreement with Southern Illinois University – Carbondale for motorcycle safety training to be conducted on college campuses.
Changes were made to the current policy that addresses credit awarded for experience and learning outside the classroom and for revisions to the current policy that addresses the reimbursement of costs incurred for electronic devices by District employees.
A new temporary policy was adopted to address employee absences due to Covid 19. The Temporary Covid Sick Leave policy will expire May 16, 2022.
A bid received from Overturf Electric was approved in the amount of $125,000 for a solar array to be installed at Frontier Community College.
Affiliation agreements were approved with the following area health care facilities, Aperion Care, located in Bridgeport, Illinois; Deaconess Women’s Hospital, located in Newburgh, Indiana; for Terre Haute Regional Hospital, located in Terre Haute, Indiana; and for Ridgeview Health & Rehabilitation, located in Oblong, Illinois.
Board approval was given for the employment of Alani Frederick as Associate Dean of Allied Health and effective February 28, 2022; for Nicholas Knapp as Construction Project
Manager at the District Office, effective February 21, 2022; and for Derek Dunn as Educational Technology Specialist for the Title III Program at Frontier Community, effective January 24,
2022.
The Board accepted the resignation of Blake Ordell as Head Men’s and Women’s Soccer Coach at Lincoln Trail College, effective January 22, 2022.
The next regular meeting of the Board of Trustees will be Tuesday, February 15, at 6:15 p.m. at Olney Central College.