MELA Meeting Minutes 2003 - 2017

Office

College/Association

Name

President

Northeast MS CC

Kim Harris

President Elect Pearl River CC

Kimberly Ellis

Haley Duck

Secretary

Meridian Community College

(CW filled in for this meeting)

I.

Call to order - 9:00am

II. Approval of October Minutes – Buffy Matthews made the motion to approve, Kimberly Ellis seconded. Motion Passed.

III. Approval of November Agenda – Buffy Matthews made the motion to approve, Vanessa Murphy seconded. Motion Passed.

IV.

New Business

A. Krista LeBrun

1) Update on RFP – When the offer was rescinded to ZOOM, the second vendor was evaluated and provided with the opportunity to win the award. As of November 2 nd , the award became public to NWN for Cisco WebEx and Spark. There is concern that ZOOM will contest the contract change. The new award must be publicized for 5 business days to allow ZOOM to contest it, but the posting of the award will not be advertised. If there is no contest from ZOOM, things can move forward with the new contract and finalizing negotiations. 2) Deborah Gilbert (Funding Structure) – If anyone has questions or concerns regarding the proposed funding structure, Mrs. Gilbert is in attendance to help. The CELO’s were interested in when the vote for the funding change will occur (TBD), and Keri Cole requested copies of the summary of the funding structure. One of the Presidents had inquired about the $.90 change, and it was explained that the MSVCC services are available to all students and not just MSVCC enrolled students, which keeps the formula fair and equitable among the colleges. Thanks to Deborah for attending the meeting!

B. Shalon Farris

1) ET Feature Request Updates

a. Completed Requests – Course and Student Survey Completion Column on Course Roster, Course Information added to all pages, Enter on keyboard allows for search (Tab focuses

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