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SIUSLAW NEWS | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2019 | 7A LCC Florence from page 1A new program that should streamline board commu- “Our intent is to improve nications. relations and work more People can visit the site, collaboratively to increase view agendas and contact the pool of students en- the board at go.boarddocs. tering the trades,” Ham- com/or/lanecc/Board.nsf/ ilton said. “This is a very Public. big deal. Apprenticeships Two items during the are how you grow CTE. meeting specifically dealt It’s on a national radar, it’s with the Florence area. on our radar. … We have LCC Board Member to get this right. This is Matt Keating, member of how we’re going to grow. the Business Affairs Com- We’ve got some seed mon- mittee, talked briefly about ey to get us started, and we the potential sale of some want to work with labor to of LCC’s property in Flor- hopefully get a jumpstart ence. on this.” Earlier this year, LCC The rest of the meeting had received an offer from included a number of pol- C.W. Walker and Associ- icy reviews and program ates representing a client highlights, with reports who expressed interest from the Business Affairs in building 70 to 80 mar- Committee, Academic and ket-rate apartments on a Student Affairs Committee parcel of land that is a part and the Executive Com- of the LCC Florence Cen- mittee, as well as a chance ter. for the board and LCC “There is a demonstrat- staff to use BoardDocs, a ed need for market-rate Florence Food Share provides food to those who are hungry in our community. If you have four hours a week available, we are in need of volunteers to staff our Front Desk and also act as Guides as cli- ents walk through the pantry. Please call our volunteer coordinator, Sarah Lovejoy, @ 541-997-9110 (Monday – Friday, before noon) to learn more about volunteering. info@lorencefoodshare.org 2190 Spruce Street. housing in Florence,” read the board report. “We discussed several items in our Business Af- fairs Committee, including but not limited to the sale of the Florence property,” Keating said. “We had ro- bust discussion, applauded the thorough presentation that we received — thank you Russ — and the Busi- ness Affairs Committee recommends the college move forward with the approval and grant au- thorization to President Hamilton or her designee to negotiate the sale of the property with C.W. Walker and Associates.” While the Business Af- fairs Committee received information on the col- lege’s appraisal of the prop- erty and a report on com- munity outreach submitted by Pierson, LCC Board Member Lisa Fragala ex- pressed frustration that further information wasn’t immediately available to the entire seven-member board. She requested that more information be avail- able to both the board and the public. Vice President of Col- lege Services Brian Kelly then gave a little more in- formation as he said the offer of the property came in slightly lower than the appraisal. “By granting us the au- thority to negotiate, it is the intent of the college to move that offer number a little closer to the apprais- al number, with the even- tual intention of knowing that we’ll probably sell for somewhere in between, which we feel would be a fair-market value,” Kelly said. The board voted unani- mously to pursue negotia- tions towards a sale, with the caveat that additional information be provided through BoardDocs on bigger issues such as this. In other Florence-area news, Hamilton’s report mentioned that there is a petition brought forward by private citizens to ex- tend LCC’s district north of Florence to include Ten- mile Creek Road up to the Lane County line. “That petition is cur- rently under consideration by the State of Oregon’s Higher Education Co- ordinating Commission (HECC),” Hamilton said. According to back- ground provided by HECC for the “Public Hearing on Petition to Redistrict the Lane County College Ser- vice District, Northwest Lane County,” the com- mission received a peti- tion from residents of Lane County seeking to be add- ed to the Lane Communi- ty College Service District and remain unincorporat- ed in any other district. The question has implica- tions on the services pro- vided to residents of Lane County, on tax revenue re- ceived by LCC and on state revenue provided by the HECC to all community colleges in Oregon. LCC Director of Pub- lic Affairs Brett Rowlett said, “There is a very small part of Lane County, that when our college district was created 55 years ago, the boundary followed a school district boundary, and not the county line. There are folks that live on Tenmile Creek Road … that have for nearly a de- cade have been attempting to join the college district. It is not an easy process.” One way that those county residents have been able to move forward is by obtaining 10 percent of sig- natures of those registered in that area, which led to a public hearing with HECC on Sept. 16. After 30 days, the com- mission could rule on the boundary change, redraw the boundary line or pass the change to the legisla- ture. “This is the first time this has happened,” Rowl- ett said. “It’s an interesting process to go through. This is democracy in action,” he added, showing a photo containing only a few peo- ple. “It was in Yachats on Monday night. … This was people coming in, saying, ‘Please increase my taxes, we want to support our lo- cal community college.’ It was a very neat process to be part of.” For more information about LCC, visit www.lan- ecc.edu. Fall term classes begin Sept. 30. For information on cred- it and non-credit courses at LCC Florence Center, 3149 Oak St., visit www.lanecc. edu/Florence. Get Results...List With Richard. Volunteer Richard Beaudro Principal Broker 541 991-6677 Get involved Construction Volunteers needed for each stage of the building process. Experience is a plus, but not required. 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