Clackamas Community College
Wednesday, Feb. 7,1979
Vol. XII, No. 15
College zeros in
n new budget
of expenses and appropriate its
limited funding to the areas of
major importance, Heaton
said.
Hypothetically,
if
the
College’s total operational ex
penses came to a million
dollars, last year, the zero-
based budgeting system would
only grant 90 percent of the
last years total expenses to
each department for the
following year, or $900,000,
Heaton said. This means that
any expenses which would ex
ceed the 90 percent limit, by
any given College department,
would have to be evaluated by
the department chairperson
and then be assessed as a
“decision packet,” he said.
Decision packets would be
ranked according to their im
portance.
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I an effort to minimize
Les, the College may im-
lent the
zero-based
Lting system- which is
L to most academic in
ions nationally,” said Kent
[ton, College
faculty
■dent.
■cording to Heaton, zero-
id budgeting has been
light on as national
foment by numerous
Bernie institutions in an ef-
Ito alleviate unnecessary
Rises.
[he College is very concer
ns to how the taxpayer’s
ley is spent. Since the
tge is dependent upon the
|c's taxes, we feel respon-
I in seeing to it that the
ley is not squandered,”
|on said.
■ implementing the zero-
id budgeting plan each
irtment would have to per-
| a “checks and balances”
of planning which would
late where the main
lity expenses are located
Blow important they are to
limmediate program,
In said.
■like “padded budgeting,”
I covers
excessive
[nditures by increasing the
let ceiling, the zero-based
feting requires each depar-
|t to evaluate its entire list
“A certain department may
have a list of 100 decision
packets which they feel are
mandatory to the functioning
of their department. But many
of the other College depar
tments may believe that their
decisions packets are similarly
as justifiable and should be
given
proper attention,”
Heaton said.
In effect, each department
head must list and present
decision packets to their
respective division chairperson.
Because there will be more
decision packets than the
budget ceiling will allow, some
will have to be “skimmed off,”
Heaton said. “There’s,going to
be a lot of arguments during
these chair meetings as to why
various decision packets were
skimmed off,” Heaton predic
ted.
But the thinning out process
will not end at the division
level,
Heaton said. “Each
division chairperson
must
present a narrowed list of
decision packets to the respec
tive dean. From there the
decision packets will be further
thinned out so that the most
important ones will be granted
the funds.”
The idea of zero-based
budgeting has not been
unanimously declared effective
yet for academic institutions,
Heaton said. It is designed to
bring an end to many possibly
unnecessary expenses the
College is faced with annually.
Causing a decrease in spen
ding will make the taxpayer
realize that the College is truly
concerned with how their
dollars are spent, Heaton said.
Heaton and two other
representatives from
the
College will, be traveling to
Phoenix, Ariz., Thursday and
Friday to participate in a
nationally attended zero-based
budgeting seminar. “Zero
based budgeting is a responsive College student tries his hand at welding in a new, multi
system to both the community faceted course, “Industrial Orientation.” See story on
Page 3. Photo by Jeffrey Buser-Molatore.
and the taxpayer,”he added.
olons speak on current trends
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rodent representatives trom
ISAC
Community
Ige’s
of
Oregon
[nation and Commissions
It a productive day last
|y, Jan. , 26, at the
fctive workshop sponsored-
Ihemeketa Community
pein Salem.
I day spent at the State
gave students an op-
py to sit in on meetings
lithe house and senate as
[as told to their individual
psentatives concerning
fetion pertinent to studen-
| morning began with a
Pg with Clay Meyers,
[Treasurer. He answered
{tons concerning the
Rors tax bill and other
frs before the legislature
fould affect students. He
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also
answered
general
questions concerning how the
i legislature worked.
CCOSAC members then sat
in on the House of Represen
tatives and a Senate meeting
before leaving for lunch with
Senator Mark Hatfield.
Hatfield spoke at length on
the energy situation before
opening the floor to questions.
He was, for the most part,
pessimistic about legislation
that will cost the government
money without demonstrable
economic benefits. This in
cludes financial aid and child
care bills that may be presented
this session.
Hatfield attacked military
spending as “inflationary” and
expressed his displeasure with
the current move away from
spending for “human resource
programs” that will benefit the
general public but will only
provide economic benefits th?»t
are hard to measure in terms of
dollars such as child care.
Other student, leaders with
specific goals in Salem were
Mike
McCarty,
student
president from the College,
who met with several legislators
to discuss marijuana reform,
and Pat Reinhardt, student
president from Portland Com
munity College who discussed
pending child care legislation
with representative Gretchen -
Kafoury. Reinhardt was also
concerned with financial aid
regulations that make it difficult
for students who are suppor
ting themselves but living with
their parents to receive needed
help.
The rest of the students were
free to sit in on committee
meetings that met throughout
the afternoon to discuss mat
ters such as National Direct
Student Loans. The afternoon
(also gave students the oppor
tunity to see their legislature at
work and to become familiar
by representative, concerning
with the capital itself.
OSL’s dissatisfaction with
The Board of President’s
USSA, it was decided that
meeting on Saturday was one
CCOSAC would not affiliate it
of the more productive
self with that organization at
meetings of the year. Several
matters that have been on the this time .
• The major areas that need to
agenda since last summer were
taken care of and-it was poin be worked on for this year are
ted out that all abut four of the block booking, developing a
goals set at the summer format
for • leadership
workshop had been accom- workshops and helping PCC.
plished.
It was also decided that lob
Two of the matters that were bying for this year would be
taken care were funding for confined to letter writing com-
CCOSAC and affiliation with paigns concentrating on child
the United States Student care legislation and insuring
Association.
funding
for
community
It was decided that since colleges.
most of the matters CCOSAC
Bresnahan presented the
deals with do not require large Board of President’s with a list
amounts of funding that the of six points on which to base
current method of receiving arguments for continued finan- ,
money by donation Was cial support of community
adequate and that there is colleges. He suggested that in
enough money in the budget at dividuals rewrite these points,
this time to finish the year.
changing-the wording and the
After a report from Margaret order, to make the letters as in
Bender, Oregon Student Lob dividual as possible.
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