Goal III. Workforce Development
The Floresville voters passed a resolution to establish and jointly operate an ACCD & Floresville ISD Early College Technology Center for fall 2009.

Goal IV. Capacity To Serve
Additional funding of $200,000 for the Palo Alto College Soccer Field Phase 2 and 3 consisting of parking lots, restrooms, lighting and bleachers was approved by the City of San Antonio Voters as part of the City of San Antonio Bond Election on May 12, 2007.

Design work is beginning on Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Phase II renovation projects at SAC, PAC, and SPC.

Staff are finalizing preparation for implementation of District wide email system the weekend of May 18-20. Faculty, staff and students will have the availability of a new, robust full-featured e-mail system (Microsoft Exchange) within a week. Training on the new system will be available. The migration work scheduled last weekend is the first phase of a two phase project. The second phase is scheduled for this coming weekend. This is a CIP project.

Members of the Chancellor’s Executive Committee and the Leadership Development Committee attended a 1-day Disney Keys to Excellence conference at OLLU. This nationally-recognized program provided insight into the highly successful business philosophy of the Disney Corporation, including leadership, loyalty, service, and management. Many of the Disney strategies are consist with our own strategic plan and priorities, the Baldrige principles, and our four drivers. We are definitely on the right track on this journey to excellence!

Goal V. Organizational Communication
The Department of Governmental and Public Relations began developing the new ACCD website design which will emphasize the Alamo Community Colleges logo (the ACCD homepage received 100,808 hits this week). In addition, they created a website draft for the Banner Implementation Project.

Dr. Leslie has assembled a group of about 10 individuals to serve on his Transformation Team. This follows a concept Jim Collins noted in “Good to Great,” whereby the group exists “as a device to gain understanding about important issues facing the organization.” It might be seen by some as an advisory committee or sounding board for the CEO and is deliberately diverse in both the traditional sense and in terms of thought and perspective. The group meets semimonthly.

Dr. Leslie attended the NISOD conference in Austin from May 20-23rd.

We have an increasing number of events and activities district-wide and are taking the opportunity to showcase such events on channel 98. This section of the Chancellor’s Weekly Report will now provide a schedule of the programming for our regularly scheduled times of 12 – 2 pm on Saturday and 9 – 11 am on Sunday. Programming varies due to the timing of Board and committee meetings, ground breaking ceremonies, etc. The programming for the coming weekend is as follows:

Saturday, 5/26– 12 noon-2 p.m., Opening segment of the 5/15 Board meeting (up until executive session), the Southwest Center groundbreaking, and the SPC Culinary Arts program highlight.

Sunday, 5/27– 9-11 a.m. - Regular May Board meeting, from executive session until the end