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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
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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.
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