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Vol. XXIII No. 18
Clackamas Community College
March 7,1990
Oregon City, Oregon
CCC asks for new operating levy on ballot
by Brianc Q Dotson
Contributing Writer
Clackamas Community Col
lege will ask 'voters to pass a new
three-year operating levy on a mail-
in ballot which goes out to the
public on Friday, March 9.
Voters have until March 27
to decide on a tax levy for CCC
that would raise the current tax
levy from $132 per $1,000 assessed
to $1.42 per $1,000, for three years
at an increase of 7.6 percent.
The passing of this operating
levy would produce $9.8 million
for 1990-91 school year, $10.1
million the next, and $10.4 mil
lion the final year of the levy.
CCCs current levy will run
out June 30. Clackamas is not
covered by the safety net and has
no tax base. More than half of
CCCs funding would come from
this operating levy.
“Our (CCCS) measure is
aimed at keeping the doors open
for the next three years,” said
college president Dr. John Key
ser.
XC Tax Rate 1982-90
How CCC Is Funded:
Last March voters passed a
$9.5 million bond levy to fund the
construction of new buildings at
the main campus in Oregon City
and at the Wilsonville site. The
money raised by the passing of the
operating levy on the March bal
lot will exclusively go towards
maintenance and operation of the
campus.
CCC is currently third lowest
in the state of Oregon among
community college tax rates. Five
cents of the total tax dollar in
Clackamas County funds CCC For
example, if the measure passes, a
$60,000 home will contribute $6
more to the levy than last year
under the levy.
The
state average tax rate for commu
nity colleges is $1.92 per $1,000;
Clackamas, at $1.37, is .55 lower.
Only two other colleges out of the
state’s 13 have lower tax rates.
Treasure Valley Community Col
lege is the highest at over $5 per
thousand assessed.
The major reason for the
proposed increased tax levy is
because of the increased expenses
of operating the college. In the
last five years, enrollment at CCC
has grown 30 percent but the fac
ulty has grown by only four per
cent.
“I feel that the tax levy has a
fair chance of passing,” said Key
ser. “However, any time a tax
measure is on the ballot it is met
by skepticism by a percentage of
the voters. Most people realize
the importance the ballot has for
the college.”
Community college representation lacking...
Hatfield, AuCoin push for Dept, of Education seat
by Ma rk A. Borrelli
Editor-in-Chief and
Roseann Wentworth
News Editor
Oregon Senator Mark O.
Hatfield is making a strong push
to gain community and junior
college representation in the
Department of Education.
Despite having higher enroll
ment than any other segment of
higher education, community
colleges provided training for 10
millionstudents thisyear. Enroll
ment at Oregon’s colleges, which
include the state’s 13 community
colleges, has increased more than
14 percent over the past two years,
with their current rosters listing
almost 300,000 students.
The only place that commu
nity colleges are lacking in num
bers is within the Department of
Education, as they virtually have
no representation within.
- The American Association of
Community and Junior Colleges,
and the Association of Commu
nity College Trustees are trying to
do something about this. The
groups unanimously passed a reso
lution last fall calling for the crea-
tion of a high-level position within
the Department of Education
responsible for serving the inter
est of community, technical, and
junior colleges.
Last week, Hatfield, with the
help of Oregon State Represen
tative Les AuCoin, introduced to
the Senate a bill that would boost
the status of community colleges
nationally within the Department
of Education by officially giving
them a voice within the depart
ment.
The Hatfield-AuCoin man
date is designed to initiate, for the
first time, an Office of Vocational
and Adult Education and Com
munity Colleges within the De
partment of Education. Accord
ing to AuCoin’s office, the
OVAECC would give “technical
assistance and leadership” to the
1,200 community colleges through
out the U.S.
The new office would also
correlate federal activities at
community colleges, as well as
create and address the vocational
education, adult technical educa
tion, and basic education programs.
The issues of rural education would
also be served, tion, and basic edu
cation programs.
Dale Parnell, president of the
AAJCC says, “The community
college network is helping Amer
ica to regain the competitive edge.”
“The role of community col
leges in educating our young people
and workforce is absolutely criti
cal,” Hatfield stated in the recent
legislative meeting. “It’s no longer
acceptable that community col
lege professionals are absent from
the Department of Education’s
bargaining table.”
Ingram selected as ASG VP;
by Margy Lynch
News Editor
Ken Ingram, former ASG
Assistant to the President, has
recently been selected as ASG Vice
President
Ingram’s position will be made
official tomorrow during the ASG
meeting.
Ingram’s selection has opened
up the third position of ASG this
term. The position of Assistant to
the President will be filled using
the same process that was used in
selecting the other ASG officers.
Applications will be accepted
and interviews will follow. The
process is tentatively scheduled
to start next week and extend
into the first week of next term.
Ingram is in charge of filling the
position.
Debbie Baker, Director of
Student Activities and Commu
nity Services, commented that
ASG is adjusting well to the
changes.
Baker said that besides the
expected transition period, from
big changes like the ones taking
place in ASG, ASG has been doing
very well.
She did mention, however,
that there has been some infor
mal discussion on changing the
process ASG now uses to fill
positions,
“There are other issues they
[ASG] would rather spend time
on than filling positions when
someone decides to leave for cer
tain reasons,” Baker said.
Baker mentioned one possi
bility might be a waiting list for
people that want to be on ASG.
Nothing is confirmed though, as
they are “still in the talking stages.”
The concern came from “some
people feeling academically pres
sured,” according to Baker.
“People may be feeling under
the gun,” Baker said, “like they
can’t do it It’s time to take an
other look at it”
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Ken Ingram Is the new vice president for ASG. He was formerly
ASG's Assistant to the President.