What's on tap for tomorrow's board meeting?

.....The “agenda outline” for tomorrow’s (June 24) meeting of the South Orange County Community College District Board of Trustees has now been posted (here (pdf)).
.....The closed session starts at 5:00 p.m.
.....Under "public employee discipline/dismissal/release," the closed session agenda lists four “cases.”
.....It also lists a single “appointment”: “President, Saddleback College.” Does this mean that they’ve hired someone? Maybe so. (Or maybe Chancellor Raghu Mathur is allowing for the mere possibility. Dunno.)
.....There’s the usual union, ATEP, and legal stuff.

OPEN SESSION:

.....The open session is set to start at 6:30.
.....As usual, after some "resolutions," members of the public will be given an opportunity to address the board.
.....Why doncha show up and just point and scream like Donald Sutherland (or, better, Brooke Adams) did at the end of Invasion of the Bodysnatchers? They'll let you do it for three whole minutes.

Donald Sutherland: Invasion of the Body Snatchers


.....Among the “consent calendar” items is this:

5.18 SOCCCD: Budget Amendment: Adopt Resolution No. 08-19 to Amend 2007-2008 Restricted General and Community Education Funds : Adopt resolution.

.....—As usual, the public is left sans clue as to what that’s about. I don’t think Raghu fully grasps the spirit of the Ralph M. Brown Act.

Among “general action items”:

6.1 SOCCCD: District Mission and Vision Statements and District-wide Goals 2008-09 (approval)

.....—Have you ever read this stuff? This kind of pseudo-erudite writing—Mathur's kind of shit-hackery—suggests a complete failure to grasp the notion that writing is meant to communicate something. (Naturally, the “agenda outline” does not actually provide the statements. Thanks again, Democracy Boy.)

6.3 SOCCCD: Five Year Construction Plan 2010/11 to 2014/15

6.4 SOCCCD: ATEP: Submittal of Long Range Plan to the City

.....—Looks like something’s brewin’, ATEPwise.

Item 6.9 (Academic Personnel Actions) includes “authorization to establish and announce a faculty position.” Don't know what that's about.

.....I’m gonna miss this meeting. I’ve got tickets to see Alison Krauss and Robert Plant at the Greek. Can somebody please cover for me?
.....Don't all volunteer at once.

T-Bone Burnett, Alison Krauss, & Robert Plant