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Board OK’s new levy proposal
After having lost two three-year
rate-based serial levies and one tax base
proposal, Clackamas Community Col­
lege’s Board of Education voted yester­
day to place a two-year rate-based
serial levy on the June 26 elections
ballot.
The Board met at noon at the Sun­
nyside Inn across from the Clackamas
Town Center and voted four to one in
favor of the levy proposal.
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The proposal’s rate will be $1.25
per $1,000 of assessed property value,
which is the same rate the College is
functioning on with its current levy.
College President Dr. John
Hakanson said the Board had the op­
tions of choosing either a one or three-
year levy in addition to the two-year
proposal. He said the Board chose to
go with a two-year levy instead of the
previous three-year proposal because
“the Board was a little apprehensive
about not having enough money for
the third year.”
Hakanson also stressed the impor­
tance of the Board’s decision not to ask
for an increase in the levy rate, but
rather the amount the College is cur­
rently functioning under.
“We’re (Board) trying to respond
to the message we get from the people
that we need to reduce our levy,” he
said. The new proposal will also be
$834,000 less than the tax base pro­
posal that appeared on the May 15
ballot.
In regards to the two-year levy
proposal, Hakanson said, “I think that
it’s a good decision. I hope that the
people will recognize the longer we
delay passage the harder it will be to
maintain the College’.’
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Clackamas Community College
Wednesday, May 23, 1984
Vol. XVli, No’ 24
Faculty, administration approve contract
Increment issue disputed by both sides
By Shelley Ball
satisfied, thanks to the Col­
lege’s Board of Education vote
to approve the proposed two-
Clackamas Community year contract last Wednesday.
College’s need to ratify a
The Board voted unan­
faculty contract has been imously to accept the contract,
Of The Print
which calls for putting a two-
year freeze on faculty wages,
with an increment during the
second year.
Counselor David Camp­
bell, who was a member of the
faculty group representing the
entire College faculty during
the negotiation meetings, had
said in an earlier article that
the Board would view this in­
crement as a raise in salary,
while the faculty feels it is
“money for demonstration of
competence on the job.”
Dean of Instruction Lyle
Reese said, however, that the
Board had split feelings on
whether they thought the in­
crement should be considered
a salary raise. “I do not con­
sider an increment a pay
raise,” he said.
Reese was a member of
the group representing the
College’s Board during the
negotiation meetings, and was
not at liberty to speak about
the proceedings until after the
Board’s approval of the con­
tract.
“I’m pleased with their
decision to accept it,” he said
in regards to the Board’s deci­
sion. As for the increment
issue, Reese said,1“‘Our Board
has never dealt with the
philosophical issue; they were
dealing with the cost to the in­
stitution.- It’s a matter 'of
semantics.”
Correction
In last week’s issue of The
Print, the article entitled
“Voters reject tax base pro­
posal” erroneously reported
that Clackamas Community
College’s tax base ; proposal
was being defeated by a count
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Cayton,Kluever, Wilder round out
College’s student government cabinet
Students Debbie Cayton,
Greg Kluever and Beth Wilder
will round out the executive
cabinet of Clackamas Com­
munity College’s Associated
Student Government for the
1984-85 school year.
Cayton has been selected
as the assistant to the presi­
dent, Kluever has taken over
the role of activities director
and Wilder is filling the ad­
ministrative assistant position.
Cayton, 18, is a graduate
of Oregon City High School.
She said she is “excited”
about being able to work on
the ASG, and is happy to be
working with ASG President
Jenny Metzker and ASG Vice-
President Shawnee Christ­
ensen. Cayton had the oppor­
tunity to work with Metzker
and Christensen by being an
ASG senator this school year.
“I think it will be fun,”
Kluever said in regards to serv­
ing on the ASG. He is 19 years
old and hails from La Salle
High School. Although he did
not serve as an actual member
of the ASG for this school
year, Kluever said he helped
out as a “student at large,”
and through this he also had
the opportunity to work with
Metzker and Christensen.
As of press time Wilder
was out of town on a trip, so
she was unavailable for com­
ment. She previously lived in
Missouri, and hits also served
as an ASG senator this past
year.
of 5,080 yes votes to 3,403 no
votes. As of press time, the
vote count should have read
the opposite: 5,080 no to 3,403
yes. The Print sincerely regrets
any inconvenience and confu­
sion this error may have caus­
ed its readers.
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