Minutes:

1. Welcome – Barry Kirschen welcomed the committee attendees.

2. Additions to the Agenda – None.

3. Approval of Agenda – So approved.

4. Nominations and Election of Secretary – Action deferred until the next

meeting.

5. Committee Chair – Barry Kirschen will remain chair of the committee.

6. 2008 CFT - CTE Committee Budget – Barry informed the committee that he

had submitted a budget to Dennis Smith for the next fiscal year. Dennis told

Barry that the items he had budgeted were items that would be funded

regardless of whether they were line itemed in the CFT budget, hence the CTE

“budget” will show “0” in the CFT Budget. This should have no impact on the

operations of the committee.

7. Senate and House Appropriations Bill – Barry told the committee that

advocacy phone call would begin next week.

8. Worked on content to appear on the CTE committee web page of CFT.org

9. Announced a teleconference on October 18

th from 1:30 to 3:00 pm involving

Community College CTE Advisory. Michael Hoffman will participate from

our committee and will report back to us.

10. The Discipline Work Group has met to develop articulation templates, which

are presently on the Web for comments and review

11. Discussed the Perkins Act and the draft legislation for 2008-12. This

legislation deals with funding issues involving CTE. Discussed how to

download and distribute the Act in order to insure appropriate distribution of

funds.

12. Announced the annual conference of CITEA in Riverside, March 13-15, 2008.

Michael moved and Francisco seconded that CFT join CITEA and send a

representative to the conference. The motion was unanimously approved.

13. Worked on a resolution to submit to the CFT Convention in April, 2008.

14. Discussed agenda items for the February 23, 2008 committee meeting.

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