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REGION 4

2 - 12 - 99 Meeting Minutes


Second Meeting
Regional Professional Development Advisory Council
Manatee Community College, Bradenton, Florida
Friday, February 12, 1999
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY


  1. Welcome/Announcements Dr. Peter Easton, Florida State University, called the meeting to order at 10:40 a.m. and asked those present to introduce themselves. Those in attendance included:

    COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT:
    Kathy Browers, Pinellas County Schools
    Elizabeth W. Chaney, Dunbar Community School
    Patrick Lucey, Glades Correctional Institute
    Philip L. McClung, Manatee Community College
    Michael McLeod, South Florida Community College
    Dr. Leo Mediavilla, Collier County Public Schools Adult & Community Education
    Mavis Pacetti, Lee County Adult Education
    Joe Perez, Hillsborough County Schools Department of Adult & Community Education


    TECHNICAL ASSISTANTS PRESENT:
    Lair Decker, Hillsborough County Schools Department of Adult & Community Education
    Dr. Marilyn Gillespie Martinez, Adult Literacy/Workplace Education/ESOL Consultant


    FSU TEAM MEMBERS PRESENT:
    Eqbal Darandari, Research Assistant
    Dr. Peter Easton, Principle Investigator
    Cynthia L. Godbey, Project Director


    DOE TEAM MEBERS PRESENT:
    Dwight Hyle, Regional Consultant - Region 4


    COUNCIL MEMBER5 ABSENT:
    Gayle Brooks, Pasco-Hernando Community College
    Mary Cantrell, Manatee District Schools
    Dr. Sylvia M. Carley, Hillsborough Community College
    Diane Davis, Hardee Correctional Institution
    Steve Hull, Polk Community College
    Dr. Michael McCoy, Hardee A.R.C.
    Connie Mundzak, Hillsborough County Employment & Training Division
    • Mr. Hyle announced that his office has some funds available for a small project in Region 4.
    • Corrections were made to the Council directory.


  2. Council Organization
    • The following modifications were made to the bylaws:
      1. To allow proxies to count in determining a quorum and in voting and
      2. To have the entire Council serve as the Executive Committee, having a Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Treasurer as officers.
    • Joe Perez was elected Chairman.


  3. Review of the First Meeting
    • Council members expressed satisfaction with the use of the web site and email for communications, overall.
    • Council members asked that an abbreviated version of the minutes be made available in addition to the detailed minutes.


  4. Old Business
    • No issues of concern were brought by Council members on behalf of their constituencies.
    • Council members reviewed the compilations of needs assessment information prepared by the FSU Team from Council members' assessments of existing needs assessments.
    • There was a consensus that the existing information is not sufficient in representativity or comprehensiveness.
    • Dr. Easton proposed a design that will enable the Council to accomplish the project goals this first year and put a system in place for updating the information at subsequent points in time, as needed:
      1. Council members review the needs assessment compilations that have been prepared to get a sense of what is missing and FSU develops a needs assessment instrument for gathering missing data.
      2. FSU disseminates the needs assessment instrument and Council members provide feedback based upon their reviews of the needs assessment compilations.
      3. FSU modifies the instrument and returns it to Council members for administration.
      4. Each Council member identifies 6-7 people representing diverse stakeholder groups who they can readily distribute the instrument to for their completion and who can likewise administer to another 6-7 people representing other stakeholder groups. (The adequacy of representation that can achieved using this method, will be assessed through the Council members completion of a Sampling Matrix that will reflect the stakeholder groups they and their 6-7 initial contacts will be able to obtain through their survey administration.
      5. Responses/results are forwarded to FSU for compilation and analysis.
      6. Since emphasis is on maximizing variability in respondents to represent the diverse stakeholder groups, the Council agreed to use a sampling matrix to be developed by FSU and modified according to Council member input to assess the representativity of the anticipated respondents.


  5. Close Meeting
    • The next meeting of the Region 4 RPDAC was set for Friday, March 26, 1999 from 10:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m.
    • The meeting adjourned at 2:30 p.m.


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