1\ Attendance
Chair Robert Ackerman called the meeting of the Lane Community College
Board of Education to order at 7:55 p.m. Present were: Board
Members George Alvergue, Mike Rose, Lucille Salmony, Kathleen Shelley,
and Dennis Shine. Also present were President Mary Spilde; Vice Presidents
Marie Matsen and Cheryl Roberts; Assistant to the President Tracy Simms;
College Counsel Tim Harold; Lane Community College Education Association
President Margaret Bayless; Lane Community College Employees Federation
President Bob Baldwin; and Associated Students of Lane Community College
President Jennifer Gainer. Roger Hall joined the meeting via speakerphone.
2\ Program and Service Recommendations for 2002-03
Alvergue moved, seconded by Salmony, to approve the Optional Proposals
(buyback) list (filed with the original minutes) preliminarily approved
by the board at its March 13 meeting, with the following changes in priority
order: #20, #21, and #22 become #1-3 sequentially followed by the
remaining list beginning with Advanced Technology.
Rose moved, seconded by Shelley, to amend the motion to include approval of the recommended Reduction Recommendations list preliminarily approved by the board at its March 13 meeting and filed with the original minutes.
Salmony moved, seconded by Alvergue, to exclude #24, Public Safety director position, from the Reduction Recommendations list and add it to the Optional Proposals (buyback) list.
Motion failed 5-2 (Ackerman, Hall, Rose, Shelley, and Shine - No)
Alvergue moved, seconded by Ackerman, to exclude #92, Adult High School, from the Reduction Recommendations list and add it to the Optional Proposals (buyback) list.
Motion failed 4-3 (Hall, Shelley, Shine, and Rose - No)
Original amended motion passed unanimously.
3\ Tuition Recommendations for 2002-03
Shine moved, seconded by Rose, to approve the following tuition rates
effective 2002-03, beginning summer term. The rates include
an increase of $10.00 per credit hour and an additional $1.00 to offset
the elimination of miscellaneous fees ranging from $1.00-10.00.
Credit classes (in-district/in-state) $49/credit hour
Credit classes (out of state/international) $168/credit hour
Salmony moved, seconded by Alvergue, to amend the original motion to increase tuition $10 per credit hour, of which $9 is an increase and $1 is a consolidation of miscellaneous class fees, increasing the per credit hour total from $38 to $48.
Motion failed 5-2. (Ackerman, Hall, Shelley, Shine, and Rose - No)
Original motion passed 6-1 (Salmony - No)
The board requested tuition rate information for non-credit classes be provided at the April meeting.
4\ Technology Fee Recommendation for 2002-03
Alvergue moved, seconded by Rose, to approve a $3.00 per credit hour
technology fee.
Salmony moved to fold the $3.00 technology fee into the tuition increase
of $10.00 per credit hour and $1.00 of consolidated miscellaneous fees.
Amended motion failed for lack of a second.
Original motion passed 6-1 (Salmony - No)
5\ Other
Ackerman moved, seconded by Alvergue, to increase the Enterprise Zone
transfer to the General Fund to ten percent, effective April 1, 2002.
Motion failed 4-3. (Hall, Rose, Shelley, and Shine - No)
Ackerman moved, seconded by Alvergue, that the administration review all programs and departments which have taken a cut of less than five percent in this process and identify cuts for those departments which would equal $200,000 or five percent, whichever is less cumulatively.
Salmony moved, seconded by Alvergue, to amend the original motion to reduce the percentage from five percent to one percent, excluding programs listed on the Option Proposals (buyback) list.
Amended motion failed 5-2 (Ackerman, Hall, Rose, Shelley, and Shine - No)
Original motion failed: 5-2 (Hall, Rose, Salmony, Shelley, and Shine - No)
Ackerman moved, seconded by Salmony, to approve calculating the unappropriated ending fund balance to three percent of $65 million.
Motion passed unanimously.
Ackerman moved, seconded by Alvergue, to increase the bad debt collection from $150,000 to $250,000.
Motion passed 4-3 (Hall, Rose, and Shelley - No)
Hall excused himself from the remainder of the meeting.
Ackerman moved, seconded by Alvergue, to decrease the travel and consultant budgets by $200,000.
Alvergue moved, seconded by Shine, to amend the original motion to exclude the president.
Amended motion passed unanimously.
Spilde distributed an analysis of General Fund Travel and Staff Development Actual Expenditures for 98-01, a Summary of Actual Expenditures for Outside Services, and the travel policy.
Original motion passed 4-2 (Rose and Shelley - No)
Alvergue moved, seconded by Ackerman, to buy back line items 20, 21,
and 22 on the Optional Proposals (buyback) list.
Motion passed unanimously.
Rose moved, seconded by Alvergue, to approve that items #1-22 on the Optional Proposals (buyback) list remain in the budget at the amount specified.
Motion passed unanimously.
14\ Adjournment
The board meeting unanimously adjourned at 10:50 p.m.
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Robert Ackerman, Chair
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Mary Spilde, President/District Clerk
Prepared by:
Laura Tamura, Board Secretary