Copper Mountain College Board of Trustees special meeting on Feb. 9

The Copper Mountain College Board of Trustees will be holding a special meeting tomorrow at 1pm, before their regular scheduled meeting at 2:30, both to be held at Bell Center Community Room at CMC.

For the special meeting at CMC, a proposal recommends the full governing Board discuss and provisionally appoint a trustee to the vacant Copper Mountain Community College District Trustee Area 5 seat.

Given a failed election and subsequent failed initial appointment due to lack of qualified candidates, CMCCD Governing Board undertook the recruitment process to fill the vacant trustee seat within the 60-day timeline. Candidate nominations were accepted until January 23rd, 2023, which yielded two candidates: Cecilia Y. Evan and Jerold Garber

The governing Board will interview the provisional trustee candidates, discuss, and take action to appoint a trustee, who will take the oath of office at the next regular Board meeting on March 9th.

Gabriel Hart

Gabriel Hart is an author and journalist from Morongo Valley, CA. He was a finalist for the 2024 Golden Mic Awards for his continuous reporting on the Morongo Valley Community Services District. His punk-noir novel On High at Red Tide is out now from Pig Roast Publishing, and he's the editor-in-chief/publisher of Beyond the Last Estate, a print-only magazine featuring "creative reporting on contemporary literature."