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November 27, 2001

LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
BOARD OF EDUCATION
NOVEMBER 27, 2001

1\ Attendance
Chair Robert Ackerman called the meeting of the Lane Community College Board of Education to order at 3:40 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; Lane Community College Education Association President Margaret Bayless; Lane Community College Employees Federation President Alen Bahret; and Associated Students of Lane Community College President Jennifer Gainer.   Board member Roger Hall was absent.

2\ Statements from the Audience
None were given.

3\ 2002-03 Budget Assumptions
The board determined they would address the assumptions by category.

    • Net Working Capital was deferred to the December board meeting.  President Spilde will recommend what percentage of Net Working Capital Restricted will be expended during the year.
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    • Revenues:  State Sources Salmony moved, seconded by Alvergue, to approve the assumptions as presented. Motion unanimously passed.
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    • Revenues:  Local Property Taxes Alvergue moved, seconded by Shelley, to approve the assumptions as presented.  Motion unanimously passed.
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    • Revenues:  Tuition Salmony moved, seconded by Alvergue, to approve the assumptions as presented.  The administration will bring back data regarding a possible change in tuition for part-time students and a student services fee.  Motion unanimously passed.
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    • Revenues:  Mandatory Instructional Fees/Non-Mandatory Instructional Fees/Other Fees Salmony moved, seconded by Alvergue, to approve the first assumption Projections assume that all fees collected at 100 percent.  Uncollected fees are reported as an expenditure.


The board will consider the second assumption after it considers the administrations recommendation regarding Net Working Capital-Restricted.  The assumption states: All fees are restricted revenue.  That is, fees are tied to specific expenditures.  In the budget projections, there is an offsetting expenditure for every restricted revenue.  Motion unanimously passed.
 

    • Revenues:  Interest on Investments Shine moved, seconded by Shelley, to approve the assumptions as presented.  Motion unanimously passed.
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    • Revenues:  Sale of Goods and Service The administration will develop a recommendation regarding adjusting the pricing structure for enterprise departments.
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    • Expenditures:  Personal Services Shelley moved, seconded by Rose, to approve the assumptions as amended.  Cost savings through vacancies that cannot be filled in a timely manner will be partially offset by part-time backfill.  Motion unanimously passed.
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    • Expenditures:  Materials & Services Rose moved, seconded by Shelley, to amend the assumption as follows:  No There shall be an inflationary increase in M&S built into expenditure projections.  M&S budgets are rolled over from the current year into the budget year.  Motion failed 2 to 4.  Vote:  Rose, Yes; Shelley, Yes; Ackerman, No; Salmony, No; Shine, No; Alvergue, No.


Salmony moved, seconded by Shelley, to table the assumption until the board discusses the administrations recommendation about net working capital. Motion unanimously passed.
 

    • Expenditures:  Capital Outlay  -  Shine moved, seconded by Shelley, to approve the assumption as presented.  Motion unanimously passed.
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    • Expenditures:  Unappropriated Ending Fund Balance Salmony moved, seconded by Rose, to approve the assumption as presented.  Motion unanimously passed.
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    • Expenditures:  Contingency Rose moved, seconded by Salmony, to approve the assumptions as presented.  Motion unanimously passed.
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  • Alvergue moved, seconded by Salmony, to amend the assumption as follows:  It is assumed that the current year Contingency will may be 100 percent spent during the year.  The amendment was approved unanimously.

At approximately 6:05 p.m., Lucille Salmony left the meeting.

4\ 2002-03 Budget Principles and Criteria
Shelley moved, seconded by Rose, to approve the Budget Principles and Criteria subject to recommendations at the next meeting by anyone voting in the affirmative.  Motion unanimously passed.

5\ Date, Place, and Proposed Agenda Items for Next Regular Meeting
The next meeting will be Wednesday, December 12, 2001, beginning at 7:30 p.m., in the Boardroom of the Administration Building, Lane Community College.

6\ Future Agenda Items

7\ Adjournment
The board meeting unanimously adjourned at 6:20 p.m.

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Robert Ackerman, Chair
 

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Mary Spilde, President/District Clerk
 

Prepared by:
Laura Tamura, Board Secretary