Yavapai College District Governing Board Meeting will be held Tuesday, October 6, 2015 at 1 p.m. at the
Career and Technical Education Center, 220 Ruger Road, Prescott, AZ.
The full agenda for the meeting may be read before attending the meeting by clicking here.
Short tours might be available prior to meeting of the newly designed and refurbishing building.
All meetings are open to the public. All citizens are encouraged to attend and speak to their representatives about their concerns. A Call to The Public is held at the beginning of the meeting. During the Call each individual in the audience may speak for three minutes. To do this a card must filled out prior to meeting and given to the Board secretary. Cards are available at the door. Residents may usually discuss individual matters privately with a Board member before the meeting.
At the beginning of the meeting the newly appointed Verde Valley Board Advisory Committee, chaired by Mr. Paul Chevalier, will address the Governing Board about the Committee’s findings and recommendations. The role of this Committee is of enormous importance to post secondary education in the Verde Valley and residents may wish to stay to hear this report.
The Verde Valley Board Advisory Committee will meet this Wednesday, August 5, 2015 at 8:30 a.m. on the Verde Valley Campus, 601 Black Hills Drive, Clarkdale, AZ. The meeting is scheduled to be held in Building G, Room 102.
The following is a list of meetings involving either the District Governing Board or the Verde Valley Advisory Committee to the Governing Board. The meetings are open to the public and the public is encouraged to attend.
District Governing Board Meeting Schedule
Tuesday, May 19, 2015, 10:30 a.m.
• Board Budget Work Session
• Prescott Campus – Building 32, Room 119
• 1100 E. Sheldon Street
• Prescott, AZ
Tuesday, May 19, 2015, 1:00 p.m.
• Regular Board Meeting
• Prescott Campus – Rock House
• 1100 E. Sheldon Street
• Prescott, AZ
Tuesday, June 9, 2015, 11:00 a.m.
• Truth In Taxation Hearing and Special Meeting
• Prescott Campus – Rock House
• 1100 E. Sheldon Street
• Prescott, AZ
Tuesday, June 9, 2015, 11:45 a.m.
• Budget Public Hearing and Adoption
• Prescott Campus – Rock House
• 1100 E. Sheldon Street
• Prescott, AZ
Tuesday, June 9, 2015, 1:15p.m.
• Regular Board Meeting
• Prescott Campus – Rock House
• 1100 E. Sheldon Street
• Prescott, AZ
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 8:00 a.m.
• Verde Valley Board Advisory Committee Retreat
• Valley Academy for Career & Technology Education
• 830 S. Main Street, Suite 21
• Cottonwood, AZ
Wednesday, June 3, 2015 8:30 a.m.
• Verde Valley Board Advisory Committee
• Verde Valley Campus – Building M, Room 137
• 601 Black Hills Drive
• Clarkdale, AZ
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 8:30 a.m.
• Verde Valley Board Advisory Committee
• Sedona Center – Room 34
• 4215 Arts Village Drive
• Sedona, AZ
The first fall session of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s (OLLI’s) “Lunch & Learn” program will be devoted to discussing issues related to community college education in the Verde Valley. The program, free and open to the public, will be held Wednesday, Oct. 1, 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in room 34 of the Sedona Center (across Rte. 89A from Red Rock High School).
Guests are invited to bring their lunch or come for complimentary coffee, tea, water and a little snack. An informal discussion begins at 12:30 p.m., followed by speaker presentations starting at 1 p.m. The session is titled “Moving Forward: Visions for Yavapai College’s Sedona Center.” The discussion is related to Yavapai College’s formation of a committee to provide ideas for community college education in the Verde Valley. The committee will include representatives from Sedona, and the Oct. 1 program is intended to identify ideas that Sedona’s representatives might bring to the committee.
Brief presentations, followed by discussions, will be made by: Rob Adams, City of Sedona mayor; Linda Buchanan, community education coordinator on the Verde Valley Campus; Dave Lykins, superintendent of Sedona-Oak Creek Unified School District; James Perey, executive dean of the Yavapai College Verde Valley Campus; Mike Raber, City of Sedona senior planner and chair of Western Gateway Community Focus Area Work Group; Robin Weeks, OLLI director/coordinator; Jennifer Wesselhoff, president/CEO of the Sedona Chamber of Commerce; and Ruth Wicks, Verde Valley Community College advisory committee member.
To read the entire announcement of this event in the Verde Independent, please click here.
The next meeting of the Verde Valley Community College Citizens Advocates will be held Wednesday, September 3, 2014 from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Yavapai-Apache Lodge (below Cliff Castle Casino), 333 Middle Verde Road, Camp Verde, Arizona 86322. The meeting will be in the Camp Verde/Cottonwood Ballroom.
Mr. Steve DeVol will be premiering his video on Yavapai College and the creation of the independent administration in the Verde Valley. The meeting is open to the public. If you want more information, you may call 928-300-9270.