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April 16, 2003
The Clackamas Print
Construction nears end for
three campus buildings
Fiank Jordan
The Clackamas Print
CORY PRICE Clackamas Print
The Cateway building will house the English, journal
ism and student services departments. Construction
on the roof will begin as soon as weather permits.
Construction is progressing well
on the Clackamas campus, with one
building nearing completion and two
others in the final phases, according
to the college’s web site.
The welding and technology
building, located near Clairmont Hall,
is almost finished. A grand opening
celebration is scheduled for Tuesday,
May 6 at 5:30 p.m. The celebration
will offer visitors an opportunity to
see the first building completed in this
voter-approved bond project that is
responsible for CCC’s current expan
sion, and give them some insight into
the planning and construction phases
of this innovative building, called one
of the best training facilities on the
West Coast by a leading welding sup
ply company owner who toured the
facility in February.
“The new building was very flexi
ble in design. We have about twice as
much space in the new facility as we
did in Barlow Hall,” said Scott Giltz,
the newly appointed associate dean of
the industrial division.
“We have
been moving equipment and classes
into the new building since the end of
March. We obviously are very excit
ed.” .
According the college web site,
the new art center, located between
the softball field and Randall Hall, is
nearing completion as well. The inte
rior and exterior finishes have been
applied and final grading is underway.
Paving will begin in April, weather
permitting. Landscaping will begin
later this month. Classes will begin in
the art center summer term.
Interior finish work is ongoing in
the new Streeter Annex, with comple
tion scheduled for mid-May. Doors
and windows have been put in place
and the exterior of the building is
nearly complete.
The new Pauling Annex is now
scheduled for completion in the fall
Exterior framing continues and as that
finishes, the interior electrical,
plumbing and mechanical work will
begin.
Work on the new Gateway build
ing continues and is still on schedule
and on budget. The building, which
will house the English department, as
well as admissions, financial aid and
student publications, has had stairs
installed to the second floor, and,
weather permitting, work will begin
on roofing the structure.
Tuition increase helps to fill hole in budget
Frank Jordan
Tinc?Tate
The C'ackamas Print
The
Clackamas
Community
College budget for fiscal years 2003-
04 and 2004-05 is still up in the air
while the Oregon State Legislature
continues to debate the state’s finances
for the next biennium.
After facing a $1.6 million deficit
in the 2003-04 budget, last month the
college’s Board of Education formally
approved an $8 per credit hour tuition
increase and the permanent elimination
of seven exempt positions on campus,
to take effect summer term 2003.
“With that, and in some other work
that we’ve done, the college for the
2003-04 year is about $600,000 in the
black, which is good news,” said Al
Erdman, dean of college services. “It
means that the $1.6 million in cuts that
we’ve made, along with some other
things we’ve done from the last one
million dollars that we cut out of the
budget, will position us well....The
problem is that the governor’s pro
posed budget, the $1.6 million hole
that we just filled, is based on the
assumption that‘the state of Oregon in
the next two years will grow by 14 per
cent. No one thinks that’s possible
because the economy right now is flat
Oregon is still in a state of freefall - we
don’t know that we’ve even hit bottom
yet”
Erdman said that the'governor and
the Senate Budget Committee will
release new views of the budget this
week in response to the expectation
that Oregon will not grow 14 percent.
The college expects to lose even more
funding.
“In that, it’s widely believed that
community colleges will lose another
$25 to 28 milliori^in funding system-
wide,” said Erdman. “What that
means...is that Clackamas will proba
bly lose around another million dollars
a year in state funding. So we’re going
to go back to the drawing board again
to figure out how to fill that million
dollars.”
Clackamas has created a “think
tank” discussion group consisting of
staff, students and administrators to
help present ideas to help the college
cut its current budget shortfall.
According to the college council min
utes from its April 4 meeting, the think
tank’s mission is to come up with
$940,000 to 1.2 million in cuts to the
college’s proposed budget.
College President Joe Johnson has
told the discussion groups involved
that there is nothing left to put on the
table, as far as the college is concerned.
Any and all ideas that the think tank
comes up with will be considered.
“Even
after
the
governor
announces his proposed budget, even
after the senate legislative commit
tee...releases their proposed budget,
that’s when the wrangling starts about
what are the priorities for Oregon,”
said Erdman. “Where’s Oregon going
to spend an increasingly declining
amount of money, on what services?
So we won’t know - the college will
probably be well out of its formal
budgeting process in June before we
ever know how much money we will
receive.”
Linn-Benton CC in Albany and
Chemeketa CC in Salem are the only
community colleges in Oregon that
will cost less than Clackamas for the
summer/fall term 2003 when tuition
and fees are combined. Mt. Hood CC
will be among the state’s highest at $61
per credit hour. The average for the
state’s community colleges is about
$56 per credit hour.
Activist poet and winner of Oregon
Book Award to share work on campus
The English department will hold its first Poetry
Reading of the term from noon to 1 p.m. on April 22
in Gregory Forum. Oregon poets Willa Schneberg
and Paulann Petersen will read their work.
“They are both very good poets - they’re excel
lent,” said instructor Diane Averill, who said students
as well as the public are welcome to attend the free
event.
Schneberg was the 2002 Oregon Book Award in
Poetry recipient for her collection “In the Margins of
the World.”
Petersen, who Averill said is an activist around
Portland, has had her work published in “Poetry,”
“The New Republic” and “Willow Springs.” Petersen
organizes January’s Friends of William Stafford birth-
day events.
Averill said that the college is fortunate this year to
increase the number of scheduled poetry readings as
the result of a grant. Future poetry readings will
include Peter Sears on May 7, a Calix Magazine pro
duction on May 12, Virgil Suarez on May 21 and Vern
Rutsala on May 29.
“We were the recipients of a grant called Carried
Voices,” said Averill. “It’s for small rural colleges
who don’t have the funds for thousand dollar poets to
come read nationally. So we were really lucky
because we are getting (Sears and Rutsala) for free.”
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tyincidentlogs.
Summaries are edited
for clarity, not content.
3-11-03
Testing center staff member
phoned requesting a stand-by in
case potentially dangerous
boyfriend of student should
show up.
3- 24-03
Contacted by white male
regarding suspcious activity
involving drug use seen the pre
vious day in Barlow lot.
4- 02-03
Saw vehicle doing ‘cookies’ on
hail-covered lot. Followed car
off campus.
4-07-03
Found license plates which
came from stolen vehicle,
according to CCom.
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