TSO Council meeting Minutes

October 9^th, 2024

Attending: Jerry Bunce, Steve Denison, Chris Steele, Donna Oberembt, Tim Hay, Sandi Medendorp, Laura Stanley, Bette Murphy, Bryan Layton, Phil Andrews

Jerry read the TSO Mission statement.

The TSO Council meeting minutes for July 24^th and August 24^th were approved.

Jerry reported that the BC Provost Jess Clark has declined to meet with TSO and has referred us to meet with Liz Hollerman. The letters we signed at the TSO General meeting have been forwarded to Dr. Hollerman. The Council agreed that we should meet with Liz and that Jerry would schedule that meeting.

The TSO Council for 2024-2025 was proposed and approved at the August 24^th General meeting. The TSO Council is:

Council 2023 Officers:

Jerry Bunce                  President                          425-495-0294

Jan Reha                      Treasurer                          206-327-7470

Council Members (at large 2023):

2. Tim Hay 425-454-6636
3. Ted Watts          206-276-8111
4. Bryan Leyton 425-885-0812
5. Chris Steele 206-412-4135
6. Laura Stanley 206-718-7765
7. Sandi Medendorp 425-833-9897

We have an opening on the Council. Phil Andrews has been approached and has agreed to join the council. A motion was made and seconded and approved to add Phil Andrews to the TSO Council for the 2024-2025 period.

1. Phil Andrews 206-4981608

The TELOS Fall quarter is looking good with 16 classes going and only three cancelled. There are some new classes, a few new instructors and returning instructors. This is encouraging. The recent email advertising the Winter classes was the best we have seen. There is a new advertising person and she appears to be doing very well. Evidence being 16 classes being taught in the Fall quarter.

Tim Hay has made a proposal to approach Microsoft about the buildings being vacated in Bellevue or Redmond for potential space being made available or donated to the TELOS program. We miss the BC North Campus which was critical to building the strong TSO learning community. Now we have some classes on zoom and the in-person classes spread all over the BC Main campus. There were two trains of thought. One that TSO Could take over and run the TELOS program in vacant Microsoft building with support from MS Charities. There was strong pushback on this option as no one wants to run the TELOS program.

The second train of thought was that Bellevue College approach Microsoft to obtain space in a vacant building to host the TELOS in-person classes all in one location. A return to a North Campus environment. There was a strong sentiment that BC would not be interested in taking on additional space when they have empty classrooms on main campus and certainly not interested in potential rental costs.

We also discussed a potential collaboration of BC TELOS and UW OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute). Many of our former and current instructors also teach for UW OLLI. A possible merger might be beneficial for both UW and BC.

As we see new people in our TELOS classes keep an eye out for potential volunteers and possible future TSO Council members.

Steve reported that the cost for the August General meeting as ~$1500. We decided to start planning for a December General meeting.

Fall quarter is looking good with 16 classes going and 271 registrations.

The next TSO Council meeting will be November 20^th at 3:30 pm on zoom.

Meeting adjourned.