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The Board of Governors Energy and Sustainability Awards were established in 2012 to recognize leadership in implementing goals set forth in Proposition 39, also known as the California Clean Energy Jobs Act, to improve energy efficiency and expand clean energy generation in schools.
“California community colleges are leaders in conservation and sustainability, with smart energy solutions that enhance learning environments, save taxpayers money, create jobs and make our system a responsible steward of public and natural resources.” said California Community Colleges Board of Governors President Cecilia V. Estolano.
Awards are granted in the following categories:
o Excellence in Energy and Sustainability – Proposition 39 Projects
o Excellence in Energy and Sustainability – Faculty/Student Initiatives
o Excellence in Energy and Sustainability – Sustainability Champion.
Award winners in the category of Proposition 39 projects are chosen based upon a point system comparing cost savings, energy savings and jobs created by Proposition 39 energy projects. The Faculty/Student Initiatives Award recognizes faculty and/or students who are making a difference in developing sustainability initiatives for their college. The Sustainability Champion is chosen by the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office based upon an individual’s contributions in energy savings and sustainability.
The following colleges and college districts were honored for Excellence in Energy and Sustainability – Proposition 39 Projects:
Best Overall District - Large:
Winner: Coast Community College District, Orange Coast College – Interior Lighting Retrofit
Orange Coast College replaced more than 12,500 fluorescent and incandescent fixtures with energy efficient fluorescent and LED fixtures during an interior lighting retrofit in several campus buildings. The total project cost was $887,000 and included approximately $722,000 of Proposition 39 funds, $150,000 of Investor Owned Utility rebates, and $15,000 of district funds. The project is estimated to save 628,000 kilowatt hours, resulting in energy cost savings of $81,000 annually. Additionally, construction of this project created more than 2,500 hours of journeyman employment.
Honorable Mention: Rancho Santiago Community College District, Santa Ana College – Campus-wide Interior Lighting Retrofit
Santa Ana College replaced more than 4,800 linear fluorescent fixtures with LED retrofit kits. The total project cost was $893,000 and included approximately $706,000 of Proposition 39 funds, $125,000 of Investor Owned Utility rebates, and $62,000 of district funds. The project is estimated to save 614,000 kilowatt hours, resulting in energy cost savings of $80,000 annually. Additionally, construction of this project created more than 2,400 hours of journeyman employment.
Best Overall District – Medium:
Winner: Palomar Community College District, Palomar College – Retrofit Exterior Lighting with LEDs
Palomar College installed more efficient LED lighting during an exterior lighting retrofit project at both its San Marcos and Escondido sites. The total project cost was $1.4 million and included approximately $516,000 of Proposition 39 funds, $29,000 of Investor Owned Utility rebates, and $850,000 of district funds. The project is estimated to save 463,000 kilowatt hours, resulting in energy cost savings of $74,000 annually. The construction for this project generated 857 journeyman hours and 582 hours of apprentice employment.
Honorable Mention: Yosemite Community College District, Modesto Junior College – Interior and Exterior Lighting Retrofit on East Campus
Yosemite Community College District completed an extensive interior and exterior lighting upgrade project at its Modesto Junior College East Campus. The total project cost was $706,000 and included approximately $690,000 of Proposition 39 funds, $17,000 of Investor Owned Utility rebates, and $49,000 of district funds. The project is estimated to save 477,000 kilowatt hours, resulting in energy cost savings of $62,000 annually. In addition, this project’s construction generated approximately 1,500 hours of journeyman employment.
Best Overall District – Small:
Winner: Solano Community College District, Solano Community College – Variable Air Volume Conversion
Solano Community College converted 20 air-handling units at various buildings from constant airflow systems to more efficient variable airflow systems. In addition, an additional eight air handlers were enhanced with improved efficient controls. The improved operation of these air-handling units allows for reduced airflow throughout the year while maintaining pre-existing comfort levels. The total project cost was $1.5 million and included approximately $457,000 of Proposition 39 funds, $252,000 of Investor Owned Utility rebates, and $809,000 of district funds. The project is estimated to save 2,048,000 kilowatt hours and 90,000 therms of natural gas resulting in energy cost savings of $191,000 annually.
The construction of this project generated more than 9,500 hours of journeyman and 3,800 hours of apprentice employment.
Honorable Mention: Victor Valley Community College District, Victor Valley College – Constant to Variable Air Volume Air Handler Upgrade
Victor Valley College completed an air-handler upgrade project at multiple buildings to improve efficiency. The total project cost was $268,000 and included approximately $239,000 of Proposition 39 funds and $29,000 of Investor Owned Utility rebates. The project is estimated to save 120,000 kilowatt hours, resulting in energy cost savings of $15,000 annually. Additionally, construction of this project created more than 750 hours of journeyman employment.
Retrofit Project Winner:
Butte-Glenn Community College District, Butte College – Skyway Center – EMS Upgrade
Butte College implemented a campus-wide energy management system upgrade project to achieve optimum operating efficiency. The total project cost was $421,000 and included approximately $383,000 of Proposition 39 funds and $38,000 of Investor Owned Utility rebates. The project is estimated to save 130,000 kilowatt-hours and 6,530 therms, resulting in energy cost savings of $111,000 annually. The construction for this project generated more than 2,900 hours of journeyman employment.
Honorable Mention: San Joaquin Delta Community College District, San Joaquin Delta College – Exterior Lighting Retrofit
San Joaquin Delta College replaced more than 1,000 exterior lighting fixtures at campus parking lots, pathways, and building exterior walls with high-efficiency LED fixtures. The total project cost was $850,000 and included approximately $550,000 of Proposition 39 funds, $135,000 of Investor Owned Utility rebates, and $165,000 of district funds. The project is estimated to save 570,000 kilowatt-hours, resulting in energy cost savings of $45,000 annually. The construction of this project generated 950 hours of journeyman and 950 hours of apprentice employment.
Commissioning Project Winner:
Cerritos Community College District, Cerritos College – RCx at Math/Science Building
Cerritos College implemented a retro-commissioning (RCx) project at the Science Building on its main campus. The project involved installing more reliable controls and implementing better control sequences on the air handlers making them more energy efficient. The total project cost was $577,000 and included approximately $350,000 of Proposition 39 funds, $46,000 of Investor Owned Utility rebates, and $181,000 of district funds. The project is estimated to save 62,000 kilowatt hours and 6,900 therms resulting in energy cost savings of $25,000 annually. The construction of this project generated more than 160 hours of journeyman and 41 hours of apprentice employment.
Honorable Mention: Los Angeles Community College District, Los Angeles Harbor College – Central Plant RCx
Los Angeles Harbor College completed an RCx project at the central plant serving their campus. The project involved upgrading central plant controls and optimizing chiller control to better account for variability in campus energy needs. The total project cost was $316,000 and included approximately $204,000 of Proposition 39 funds, $26,000 of LADWP rebates, and $86,000 of district funds. The project is estimated to save 326,000 kilowatt hours, resulting in energy cost savings of $42,000 annually. The construction for this project generated 807 hours of journeyman and 168 hours of apprentice employment.
Renewable Energy Winner:
Cabrillo Community College District, Cabrillo College – Solar Thermal Pool Heater
The Cabrillo Community College District completed a solar thermal pool heater project at its Cabrillo College campus, which involved installing new controls and monitoring systems, a new solar pump station, heat exchanger and storage tank, and 56 new roof mounted solar thermal panels. The total project cost was $227,000 and included approximately $137,000 of Proposition 39 funds, $37,000 of Investor Owned Utility rebates, and $52,000 of district funds. The project is estimated to save 7,466 therms, resulting in energy cost savings of $3,700 annually. The construction for this project generated 1,045 hours of journeyman employment.
In addition, Dr. Mark Padilla, a professor of physics at Chaffey College, was honored with a Faculty/Student Initiative Award. Padilla plays an integral role behind the Physics in the Central Plant initiative, which integrates energy efficiency equipment and operations directly into student learning through the physics curriculum. The curriculum includes student tours of the central plant and increases student, faculty, staff and community knowledge and interest in energy efficiency and sustainability, energy efficient equipment and operations of campus facilities.
Joe Fullerton, the Energy and Sustainability Manager at San Mateo County Community College District, was selected as the California Community Colleges Sustainability Champion for setting an aggressive pace in sustainability at the district since his arrival more than three years ago. He started his tenure by completing sustainability plans at all three district campuses, and he worked with a local nonprofit to in securing $3.5 million in grant funding from the California Energy Commission to support a solar and energy storage project. Fullerton also is working to implement a new Facility Management System to help the district save energy and water while improving maintenance and operations for staff efficiency.
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NextUp gives current and former California foster youth extra support when pursuing their higher education goals at a local community college.
The new name was chosen to help foster youth feel encouraged and excited about the next chapter in their lives.
“The name might have changed but the mission to support California foster students and their higher educational goals remains the same,” said California Community Colleges Executive Vice Chancellor Laura Hope. “Students in foster care face circumstances that are far more challenging than those faced by many of their peers. Such circumstances often make their futures uncertain. NextUp is an important first step to changing foster youth outcomes.”
NextUp was established through the enactment of Senate Bill 1023 (2014), which approved up to $15 million to fund foster youth programs at up to 10 community college districts across California.
Senate Bill 12 (2017) allows the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to expand the number of community college districts operating NextUp to up to 20, depending on available funding.
Currently, NextUp students at 26 community colleges participate in this program.
NextUp promotes academic success by using an in-person, individual approach when offering support and services, including books and supplies, child care, counseling and career guidance, educational planning, emergency housing assistance, food assistance, health services, life skills, financial literacy, mental health services, transportation assistance and tutoring. Support and services vary by college.
The renaming campaign is part of an overall effort to better help students connect with NextUp, as well as raise awareness about the program among current and prospective community college students, high school foster youth, their influencers and champion, key stakeholders and legislators.
“NextUp helps education leaders and community members better understand the scope of the challenge, and work toward a more successful scholastic experience and better life outcomes for foster youth,” Executive Vice Chancellor Hope said.
With the new name also comes the launch of several exciting new activities to help promote awareness about NextUp.
A new NextUp website (http://nextup.cccco.edu/) and several videos are available to help tell the NextUp story through peer-to-peer communication.
The Web site will serve as a statewide resource for California foster youth to help them understand what NextUp offers and connect them with a NextUp program.
The Student Services and Special Programs Division of the California Community College Chancellor’s Office administers NextUp.
The California Community Colleges is the largest system of higher education in the nation composed of 72 districts and 114 colleges serving 2.1 million students per year. Community colleges supply workforce training, basic skills education and prepare students for transfer to four-year institutions. For more information about the community colleges, please visit http://californiacommunitycolleges.cccco.edu/.
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Good job Zoe Markowitz, Shaina Yaquinto, Estefania Cuevas, Aileen Landeros, Marco Anguiano, Gilbert Lopez, Jessica Texeira, Marissa Doolin, Teagan Tompioner, Adrian Carpenter and Michael Naber. Congratulations to all these students for achieving above and beyond.
During the week of Halloween Carlé held its own Harvest Festival. Carlé’s student government hosted this daylong event. This was a great opportunity to build leadership skills as a school.
Some of the contests that were held were costume, musical chairs, the mummy wrap where the students wrapped their advisors to simulate them being a mummy, spooky donuts, a pie-eating contest, spooky jeopardy, spooky family feud, door decorating, face painting, pumpkin carving, jack o’ lantern candy toss and candy corn games.
In addition to all these activities, Carlé had lots of different food sponsored by Performance Mechanical. Thank you, Phil Harris, for how much you’ve given to Carlé in such a short time. Mr. Harris acted as DJ the whole day for this event as well as head barbecue chef.
We also would like to show our appreciation to Lily Oats and Taylor Smith, roommates of English teacher Lexi Fredricks, for baking all the sweet treats for the Harvest Festival.
Thanks goes out to our previous secretaries for coming and judging the doors of each of the classes and pumpkins. Thank you, Gina, Sherry and Barbara it was great seeing all of you again; we all miss you very much.
The winner of the costume contest for male participants was Autry Holbrook and the winner for female participants was Lexi Fredricks.
The results of the door decoration contest were Alan Siegel’s advisory lead by Shaina Yaquinto won first, Lance’s advisory won second, Angie Siegel won third and Lexi Fredricks in fourth.
The winners overall of the advisory contests were Alan Siegel’s advisory which came in first, Angie’s advisory came in second, Lance’s advisory came in third, and Lexi’s advisory came in fourth.
I asked Cataleena Steward, pumpkin carver extraordinaire, about her experience at the Harvest Festival. “I really enjoyed the day of having so much fun at school and just chilling with everyone listening to music and playing games,” she said. “I really enjoyed that everyone got along so well.”
I felt this event was really good experience for the school and hope to see many events this lively later in the year.
Thank you to everyone who helped organize this event for Carlé students we truly loved having fun all day.
Vanessa Bigelow, head designer for Carlé’s Student Body Enterprise Pegasus Productions, is making the plaques for the winner’s advisory for the Harvest fest competition. She will put the names of everyone who competed for Alan’s advisory on the plaque and it will stay on the walls of the school commemorating the event long into the future.
Ms. Bigelow helps on literally every design project in the school. She is effectively another teacher in the room every day in design class.
She is just finishing up a major project for the children of a program called Ultimate Peace that takes place in the middle east.
Nicholas Phipps is a student at Carlé Continuation High School.
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The award is an initiative of the California Economic Summit in partnership with California Forward and the California Stewardship Network.
Ton-Quinlivan was recognized on Nov. 2 during the California Economic Summit at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel.
The Summit is attended by leaders from all regions of California who come together on an annual basis to work on common issues of importance to the state’s triple bottom line: one million more skilled workers, one million more acre-feet of water and one million more units of affordable housing.
“It is a great honor to be of service to California and Californians,” states Ton-Quinlivan. “I am thankful to Governor Jerry Brown and Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley for the opportunity to bring forth my private and public-sector background to shape the role of California Community Colleges in building a strong workforce that fuels regional economies and advances social mobility.”
The California Steward Leader Award celebrates “state and regional leaders who help sustain California as a place to create and thrive, to enjoy and to explore, to nurture and to bestow to future generations.”
Past recipients of this award include former California Sen. Becky Morgan, Bud Colligan of the Monterey Bay Economic Partnership and Sunne Wright McPeak of the California Emerging Technology Fund.
“I admire Van’s vision and courageous tenacity in driving forward the state’s workforce agenda and bringing such an inclusive group along to help reach the goal,” said Bill Allen, chief executive officer of the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation and a member of the California Steward Leader Award selection committee.
“Vice Chancellor Ton-Quinlivan is a dynamic leader, and the work she and the rest of the state Chancellor’s Office team are doing to build a stronger workforce is helping to lift more Californians into the middle class and beyond,” said Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley. “We are fortunate to have a person with her vision and experience helping to move California forward.”
Ton-Quinlivan is a nationally recognized thought leader in workforce development with a proven track record for implementing large-scale system change, due in part to her ability to inspire others toward a common, unifying vision.
Appointed by the governor in 2011 as vice chancellor of workforce and economic development (now workforce and digital futures), she oversees federal and state funding that advance the workforce mission across California’s 114 community colleges, the largest higher education system in the nation.
As vice chancellor, Ton-Quinlivan spearheaded the creation of Doing What MATTERS for Jobs and the Economy, a unifying framework to improve workforce outcomes for California’s 2.1 million community college students and fuel strong regional economies. During her tenure, her administrative responsibility has grown from $100 million to $900 million as a result of her ability to inspire others toward a common vision.
Named a White House Champion of Change in 2013, she has been quoted in the New York Times, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed, and has contributed to the Stanford Social Innovation Review, U.S. News & World Report, the Fresno Bee, and others.
Ton-Quinlivan is a board member of National Skills Coalition and the California Council on Science & Technology, and she serves on the National Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship. Prior to her current role, Ton-Quinlivan oversaw workforce development for Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). She holds degrees from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Education and Georgetown University.
The California Economic Summit also recognized the recipient of the first regional 2017 California Steward Leader Award: Deborah Nankivell, chief executive officer of the Fresno Business Council.
California Community Colleges was further honored during the California Economic Summit, as two of its career education programs at Chaffey College and Antelope Valley College were among winners of the organization’s Partnerships for Industry and Education Contest.
The InTECH Learning Center is a public-private partnership between Chaffey College and California Steele Industries – along with along with 12 other regional community colleges, the Manufacturers Council and the local county workforce agency – tasked with increasing the number of skilled manufacturing craft workers in the Inland Empire.
The Antelope Valley Career Pathways Group is a partnership of Antelope Valley College, the City of Palmdale, Goodwill of Southern California, L.A. County Workforce Development and Northrop Grumman designed to fill a need for thousands of trained workers in the region, in large part because of Northrop Grumman winning a large Department of Defense contract to build aircraft in Palmdale.