The Trinity Valley Community College Board of Trustees met in a regularly called session at 7:30 pm on Monday, September 23, 2019 in the Orval Pirtle Administration Building, Athens, with the following members present.

Mr. Ray Raymond              Mr. Ron Day                       Mr. David Monk

Mr. Jerry Stone                   Mr. Steve Grant                  Mrs. Paula Kimball

Mr. Kenneth McGee           Dr. Charlie Risinger

Members not present:        Mr. Homer Norville 

1.  Mr. Stone opened the meeting with prayer.

2.  Mr. Keven Cashion with Gollob Morgan Peddy Accounting Firm introduced

     himself and his firm as the new auditors for the 2018-19 audit.

3.  The following topics were discussed in the president’s report:

• Fall Enrollment presented by Dr. Wendy Elmore
• Recruiting/High School Outreach Office presented by Dr. Jay Kinzer
• Update on Terrell Health Science Center and Health Science Academy

4. Mr. Stone moved, seconded by Mrs. Kimball that the board approve the  

    August 26, and September 9, 2019 board meeting minutes.  Motion carried

    unanimously.

5.  Mr. McGee moved, seconded by Mr. Day, for the board to approve and

     set the tax of $0.138540 for the regular tax district, and for the board to 

     approve and set the tax rate of $0.05000 for the Palestine branch campus

     maintenance tax district.  Motion carried unanimously.

For the regular tax district:

THIS TAX RATE WILL RAISE MORE TAXES FOR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS THAN LAST YEAR’S TAX RATE.  THE TAX RATE WILL EFFECTIVELY BE RAISED BY 11.02 PERCENT AND WILL RAISE TAXES FOR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS ON A $100,000 HOME BY APPROXIMATELY $0.00.

For the Palestine branch campus maintenance tax district:

THIS TAX RATE WILL RAISE MORE TAXES FOR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS THAN LAST YEAR’S TAX RATE.  THE TAX RATE WILL EFFECTIVELY BE RAISED BY 0.84 PERCENT AND WILL RAISE TAXES FOR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS ON A $100,000 HOME BY APPROXIMATELY $0.00.

6.  Mrs. Kimball moved, seconded by Mr. Stone, for the board to approve

     the non-participation of employees in the State Employee Charitable  

     Contribution Program CDDA (LOCAL) policy.  Motion carried unanimously.

7.  Mr. Monk, moved, seconded by Mr. Day, for the board to approve the TVCC

     Foundation Gift Acceptance policy.  Motion carried unanimously.

8.  Mr. Stone moved, seconded by Mr. McGee, for the board to approve the

     personnel updates as presented.  Motion carried unanimously.

9. Dr. Risinger moved, seconded by Mrs. Kimball, to adjourn the meeting at

    8:15 pm.  Motion carried unanimously.

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