CCCC board approves agreement with Jenzabar

A Jenzabar maintenance and support agreement renewal for the 2022-2023 academic year, at a total cost of $160,758, was approved by the Cloud County Community College board of trustees during its regular meeting on Tuesday night.
The cost of renewal agreement, which begins July 1, 2022, is a 3.8 percent increase from the agreement for the 2021-2022 agreement.
Cloud County Community College (CCCC) selected and purchased Jenzabar in 2005 as its enterprise resource planning software. It supports functions critical to the college operations such as admissions, advising, financial aid, student records, human resources and accounting operations.
A memorandum from vice president of administrative services Caesar Wood stated that, because of the college's investment and the critical nature of the software, it is necessary to continue maintenance and remote server management services with Jenzabar.
The cost of the agreement includes $117,923 for the Jenzabar maintenance plan, $1,000 for the JICS/iCloud maintenance, $5,260 for the Nelnet Enterprise Interface custom maintenance, $1,000 for the Accuplacer custom maintenance, $1,000 for the certification roster custom maintenance, $7,375 for Infomaker and $27,200 for remote server management services.
In other action taken during the meeting, the board approved the renewal premium of IMA Higher Education for college property, general liability, business automobile, educator's legal liability, cyber, crime and excess liability in the amount of $182,339 and the renewal premium from IMA Higher Education for worker's compensation insurance coverage in the amount of $26,770 for the fiscal year 2022.
The total cost of the insurance coverage is $209,109.
Wood informed the board that CCCC has relied on IMA Higher Education to provide insurance options for the last two years.
The board also approved selecting Mahaska Bottling Company as the exclusive vendor of snacks and beverages for CCCC from 2022-2027, effective July 1, 2022.
The college requested proposals from snack and beverage vending companies to provide services for students, faculty, staff and the public at the Concordia and Junction City campuses.
CCCC provides 12 vending machines at various locations and records sales at an estimated 16,000 snacks sold per year.
Sealed bids for the service were opened on June 9 and the college received bids from Mahaska and Heartland.
The recommended proposal for the services included a contribution of $6,000 per year for five years for the message board, a contribution of $5,000 per year for five years for athletics and two coolers for athletic use and 40 cases of product for college events.
Authorizing college president Amber Knoettgen to request from the Cloud County Community College  Foundation not more than $150,000 for the scholarship program was approved by the board.
Included in the consent agenda approved by the board was retaining Ferrell Law Firm, LLC for legal services for the college in the amount of $7,500. This will include hourly services and reimbursement expenses as needed.
The consent agenda approved also included the hiring of Angela Reed, Concordia, as a full-time nursing instructor at the Concordia campus, effective August 15.
Reed has been working as an intensive care unit charge nurse in the emergency department at Aya Healthcare in Wichita. She received her associate of science degree from CCCC and her bachelor of science degree from Chamberlain College of Nursing in Illinois.
During her president's report, Knoettgen informed the board that the Cloud County Community College Foundation board of directors met on June 14 and approved the transfer of $470,381 for scholarships awarded for the 2021-2022 academic year. That is the most given in scholarship funds to the college.
For the 2022-2023 academic year, the foundation and its review committee awarded $428,00. There is still $162,000 remaining, and scholarships are being awarded every two weeks.
The foundation has raised more than $621,000. That is an increase of 32 percent over last year's total.
The board met in two executive sessions. One for 20 minutes with Knoettgen, Ferrell, vice president of academic affairs Dr. Kim Zant and human resources Chris Wilson for the purpose of negotiations and then 10 minutes with the same participants for attorney/client privilege.
There was no action taken after the executive sessions.