Page 2 - 2014 DGB Annual Report

Dear Yavapai College Owners,
Thank you for taking time to peruse the Yavapai College District Governing Board’s 2014 annual report. This is the first annual report produced by the Board, and we trust the information will give you confidence that we are being good stewards of your tax dollars.
Yavapai College is one of the few institutions that serves the entire county, and all of us on the District Governing Board take that obligation seriously. Our county reaches from Black Canyon City to Seligman and from Bagdad to Sedona. That fact, along with the needs of Yavapai County students, informs all that we do.
What we do can best be summarized in the three ends, or goals, that we’ve established for Yavapai College:
• Deliverqualityhighereducation
• Supporteconomicdevelopment
• Providevibrantculturalopportunities
We work with Yavapai College President Dr. Penny Wills to make sure that the college is fulfilling those goals. As the college administration develops programs to implement these goals, we never lose sight of the need to deliver programs at reasonable and justifiable costs to the students and taxpayers of the county. And despite severe state budget cuts over the past several years, we have not increased the community college property tax levy for the past two years.
We stay on course by keeping in touch with our constituents—a process that we refer to as “ownership linkage.” During 2014, we took additional steps to improve engagement with you: This annual report is just one example. Other examples are the countywide survey we conducted and development of a new website with more information and feedback opportunities. Details about these efforts are on pages 12 and 13 of this report.
To keep the conversation going, I invite you become familiar with our work via this report, to post a comment or question on our website at www.yc.edu/dgb, to attend one of our monthly meetings, or to call/email Karen Jones, the Board liaison, at karen.jones@yc.edu or 928-776-2307.
We look forward to hearing from you and our other owners.
Ray Sigafoos
Chairman, Yavapai College District Governing Board
Quality Education | Economic Development | Cultural Enrichment