COMMUNITY COLLEGE IGNORES BLOG REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ABOUT AUTO BOARD THAT IS ADVISING COLLEGE ON PATH TO TAKE REGARDING ELECTRICAL VEHICLE TRAINING AND OTHER PROJECTS

It was revealed at the District Board meeting that an Auto Advisory Board meets twice a year, according to College, however  names, agendas, location of members, etc.  remains secret

Yavapai Community College provides as little information to the public as possible about its operation.  The public, for example, only accidentally learned during the November 2022 District Governing Board meeting that the Career and Technical Education unit at the College has a committee that advises it on what direction to move when various projects are proposed.

According to the brief answers given to a Board member at the November meeting, the advisory committee meets twice a year and advises the College on how it should move in developing automobile related issues such as when to move on developing its Electrical Vehicle program.

In order to obtain more information about this Committee, on November 22, 2022 the Blog made the following formal request to the College:

BLOG REQUEST: “During last Tuesday’s Board meeting Dean John Morgan mentioned he had an automotive advisory committee helping him make decisions about projects or programs at CTEC.  Can you provide information as to the number of committee members, names, and  areas of the county they come from such as Prescott, etc?”

COLLEGE RESPONSE:  “I will work on this one. I am not sure if I will be able to gather the information before we return from break on Monday.”

It has now been a month since the request and the Blog has heard nothing further from the College.  It can only be assumed that this is an area it wants to keep secret from the public. 

EDITED TRANSCRIPT OF Q AND A BETWEEN THE COLLEGE AND THE GOVERNING BOARD AT THE NOVEMBER MEETING

BOARD MEMBER QUESTION: “How do you know when the EV  marketplace has developed to the point where the college is going to entertain launching a program, for example, maintenance of  say, a fleet of vehicles. . . .”

COLLEGE RESPONSE: “Oh, if I can answer that briefly. That’s what our advisory boards are for. They’re trying to figure things out on how to position themselves.”

COLLEGE RESPONSE: “So you know  we meet twice a year with our auto advisory Board.”

BOARD MEMBER QUESTION: “And then just a follow up question, . . . what is or what comprises the Advisory Board?”

COLLEGE RESPONSE: “So our advisory boards are made up of local industry  people so  they can be independent dealers. They can be dealers,  so they’re always people that come directly from industry that work in this every day, and that’s what we turn to to help us.”

COLLEGE RESPONSE: We have a proposition on the table that we’re trying to vet right now. There’s a movement to try to convert some of your retro vehicles to electric  because there they think they’re short, lived in the marketplace,  some of your especially your muscle cars.

COLLEGE RESPONSE: That’s an interesting market that’s emerging, particularly in Phoenix right now, where they’re basically taking out gas engines and replacing them with electric in the in the old muscle cars. And they’re telling us they’re doing that to entice a younger generation  into those vehicles. Big difference between what they see in a dashboard of a modern electric vehicle versus what you see in a in a fifty-nine or a sixty nine barracuda.

You may view a four-minute video clip of the conversation at the November Business meeting of the Yavapai Community College Governing Board regarding the Advisory Board  by clicking here.