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.”