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Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009
the clackamas print 3
epartments make due with cuts
h Clackamas’
facial future
ktain, the col-
Iconsiders the
libility of mak-
tturther cuts
|y Erik Andersen
he Clackamas Print
areas that get substantially more
funds -than others. Such areas
include the business, science and
math department which receive
the most funding out of all the
departments. This is due to the
number of employees they have
working in that area coming to a
total of 59.71, not including part-
time employees, and the demand
in die department.
Other high demand depart
ments with higher number of
employees include the arts, social
sciences and humanities depart
ments, Student Services, the tech
nical career education department
and Campus Services.
| the economy being as low
I we all find ourselves pay-
|ser attention to our budget,
has Community College is
Ition.
Ikamas has made many
loss the board, some more
lie than
others. An exam
ine such cut can be found
Ibrary.
ng the summer term of
|e library came up with the
| reduce their hours from
n. to 9:00 p.m. during the
| 7:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
h through Thursday and
n. to 5:00 p.m. on Friday
Bn’t go into affect till the
pg spring term.
st year, due to the budget
I had to lay off two people,
Il-time employee and one
he employee,” said Terry
K head of the library. “I
i of the idea, then after a
non with the library staff,
Ire library staff came to the
in. I don’t think it’s going
la huge impact on the stu-
jall.”
I looking at the budget of
departments .in our school,
Iceable that there are some
PPfe made a lot of
cuts last year. Are
there more areas
we can make cuts?
I think so, if we
have to.
Courtney Wilton'
Vice President of College
Services
Vice President of College
Services
Courtney
Wilton
explained that all the departments
have had to make some sacrifices
and may have to make more in
the future.
“We made a lot of cuts last
year,” said Wilton. “Are’ there
more areas , we can make cuts? I
think so, if we have to.”
“We have cut the staffing in
our support area and that’s fine.
We should be doing that in tough
times. In the academic level, we’ve
reduced a lot of sections. Can we
do it some more? We can and. we
will have to if we get less money,”
Wilton added.
So when asked how the school
looks financially for the future,
Wilton said, “I’d say it’s tenu
ous. It largely depends on how
revenue comes in the future and
that depends on the recovery of
the economy, and it’s also depen
dent upon what happens with the
initiatives that are on the ballot in
January. So there’s a lot of uncer
tainty right now.”
The initiatives Wilton spoke of
aré Measures 66 and 67. If passed,
the measures would reduce our
budget by 5 or 10 percent with 5
percent taking out close to $2 mil
lion and 10 percent close to $3.3
million from our already reduced
budget due to the poor economy.
The way the state determines
how much funding each college
gets is based on their percent
age increase in student population.
The only flaw with this method is
that they don’t take into account
the differences between rural and
urban colleges. Where there are
fewer colleges with a smaller
student population in the rural
districts, when they achieve say
a 10 percent increase, the urban
colleges that have a larger student
population and more competition
have to bring in a significant stu
dent increase to match that 10
percent of the rural colleges.
Out of all the funds that the
school receives, the general fund
would be most important to be
look at in order to find out where
the money comes from as well
as where it goes, explains Chris
Robuck, the dean of business ser
vices. Robuck broke down a graph
of our general funds and explained
that 35 percent of our revenue is
obtained from the state appropria
tions, 35 percent from property
taxes and 26 percent from tuition,
with only 4 percent from “other”
funds. Robuck also pointed out
in the 2009-2010 adopted bud
get plan that 85 percent of the
college’s general fund expendi
tures goes to personnel services
which includes all of the students,
full and part-time employees with
only 15 percent going to materials
and services.
John Petty Clackamas Print
Head Librarian Terry Mackey reviews the numbers of
people coming into the library between 7 and 9 p.m.
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