The Copper Mountain College Board of Trustees agreed at a virtual meeting yesterday to make the college available for health-related reasons in the flu pandemic. Reporter Hilary Sloane attended the open Zoom meeting and fills in the details…
At yesterday’s meeting of the Copper Mountain Board of Trustees agreed on a memorandum of understanding that will make the college a medical warehouse, a place for dispensing supplies and testing equipment, and an alternate care site for the COVID-19 virus. As a result of the agreement, the County will conduct a drive-through Covid-19 testing event at the college April 22, from 10 am until 2 pm.
In other business, the board tabled labor negotiations with Copper Mountain School Employees Association and Copper Mountain College Faculty Association until May, to give negotiators additional time for consideration. At the next meeting, trustees will negotiate changes to compensation, health and welfare benefits, terms, evaluations, and other issues.
Also tabled until the coronavirus-related stay-at-home order is lifted was a proposed study session to bring CMC students and trustees together.
In other business, trustees voted on candidates for the 2020 California Community College Trustees Board which makes major policy decisions that affect community colleges throughout the state.
