1.0 Develop and implement an orientation program for new College employees.

Institutional Goals: #10 Institutional Quality 

1.1 Personnel, Payroll and representatives of employee groups will develop orientation programs and handbooks appropriate for classified, management, and faculty employees.  

2.0 The Office of Business Services will conduct a comprehensive review of Board policies and related procedures.

Institutional Goals: #10 Institutional Quality 

2.1 Each operating area within the Business Services Component will review its policies and procedures and add, delete, or revise as necessary. 

3.0 Review and improve the current systems used for issuing and accounting for scholarship payments.

Institutional Goals: #10 Institutional Quality 

3.1 Business Services staff, with Scholarship Office staff and Foundation staff, will develop a coordinated, simplified process for issuing and accounting for scholarship checks, which will meet each department's needs. 

4.0 To provide an overall assessment of the existing intrusion alarm systems including hardware and software, monitoring services, criteria for new installations or upgrades, emergency response procedures and reporting mechanisms within the District.

Institutional Goals: #10 Institutional Quality

4.1 To provide the District with an updated inventory and review of current systems and their compatibility with each other; to provide architects with specific design criteria for new systems; to review and update procedures for other college department's requests for new or amended systems; to review the police department's procedures for responding to alarm calls.

This objective will be accomplished using existing police department staff and budget, however the final recommendations may impact future budgets.

5.0 To enhance and improve the efficiency of the procurement process by completing the implementation of the purchasing software selected in FY 98-99.

Institutional Goals: #10 Institutional Quality 

5.1 To implement the new on-line purchasing software system, the Purchasing Manager, in cooperation with Accounting, Computing Services, and end users of the new system, will develop and execute an implementation and training program to complete the installation of the new system. 

6.0 The District will develop systems and public information to implement additional second year IRS reporting requirements for the Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning Tax Credits.

Institutional Goals: #10 Institutional Quality 

6.1 As a continuing objective, the Task Force will review and recommend implementation of new IRS reporting requirements for the year 2000.