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. cott Starnes e Print 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 ■apple Thacker I Print 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 1 ?|MMI■o"i|i ? » » 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. centimeters ■ 1 1 § s rl : id Colors by Muriseli Color Services Lab