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FILE COPY Community members walk for Sergeant Coates • 'The Walk for Damon Coates' fundraiser is the second event Clackamas has participated in to benefit Sgt. Coates County Sheriff’s deputy, was fundraiser with out the college,” shot in January in the line of duty, stated Bedrosian. Wayne Logemann, director of and is currently listed in fair con community recreation at CCC let dition at OHSU. the organizers “The Walk for use the track. Coates” is the sec “We couldn’t According to ond fundraiser for the Coates family have had the Bedrosian, Logemann is that CCC has been fundraiser “awesome.” directly involved without the Portland radio with. Last month Nic Delzell college.” station Rosey the criminal justice 105, The Clack The Clackamas Print department raised Sandra Bedrosian amas County $2,600 for the ‘Walk for Coates’ Sheriff’s depart Coates The college helped raise over Damon Event organizer ment and Tribute $29,000 at the “Walk for Damon Family relief fund. to Honor were Sandra Coates,” which it hosted last Saturday; more than 400 people Bedrosian, event organizer, and responsible for the main funding paid the $35 participation fee to Clackamas County community for the event. The college provid help cover the Coates family’s members Michelle Guzman and ed the track and field area for the walk and the general festivities. Don Hoesly organized the event. expenses. “We couldn’t have had the Rosey 105 brought its crew, and Sgt. Coates, a Clackamas Construction pushes on INTERNET PHOTO Members of the community who participated in the ‘Walk for Damon Coates’ fundraiser admire the shirts printed for the event. The college has helped raise over $30,000 for the Coates relief fund. the Tualatin Fire Department entertained the gatherers with their bagpipe band as they walked the track. The Coates family, including wife, kids, and in-laws were present. They accepted the donation immedi ately after the walk. “It was important that we had the fundraiser in the community, where the incident happened,” Bedrosian said. Between the two fundraisers Clackamas Community College has helped raised over $30,000 for the Coates relief fund. If you missed both events, there is still time to donate. Clackamas Federal Credit Union is still accepting donations for the relief fund at locations in Milwaukie and Oregon City. College faces $1.6 million shortfall; leaders explore new ideas for savings Frank Jordan Managing News Editor Construction on the new Gateway Building (above), located next to the Community Center, is scheduled to be finished in November. It will house student services, testing, student publications and the English department. The new welding building is scheduled to be finished near the end of March. See the story about the new welding building on page two. “For next year (2003-04 budget year), we have a balanced budget, as of last week,” said College President Joe Johnson, addressing a gathering of staff, faculty and students at an all-campus forum last Friday. “What next week brings, I really could not tell you.” For the 2003-04 budget, CCC is fac ing a $1.6 million shortfall. Governor Ted Kulon goski’s budget for the 2003-05 biennium is making its way through the legislative process, and the anticipated hit that com munity colleges face is growing harder by the day. “At the start of the process com munity colleges in the state thought they would get about $460 million in funding from the legislature. That number is down now to about $407 million. We anticipate that it will drop further than that,” said Johnson. “Clackamas is on more solid footing than some other com munity colleges in the state. We have taken pro-active steps in the process to help us absorb any more hits.” The state of Oregon has filled a $244 million shortfall in the March budget forecast by borrowing money from the tobacco settlement and cleaning out a school reserve fund set aside by the legislature last year. The money will not only fill the latest shortfall, but will set aside some reserve money in case the May budget forecast falls short of expectations. Johnson has pro posed to the Board of Education that Clackamas increase tuition by $8 per credit hour begin ning summer term, raising the rate to $51 per hour. Portland Comm unity College is expected to charge $58 per hour, while Mt. Hood Community College is expected to cost about $60-61 per hour, beginning fall term 2003. “We are going to fornj a task force involving administrators, staff, faculty and students to brain storm ideas about how we can save more money, because frankly, I am out of ideas,” Johnson said. “We will look at the entire way that we do business at the college. It will help everyone in the long run, and hopefully we will be better off because of it. We have been play ing catch-up in many ways, but with everyone’s help and patience, we will get through this crisis.”
