News Release
| RELEASE: Immediate | CONTACT: Public Affairs |
| DATE: September 10, 2004 | PHONE: (919) 807-6962 |
State Board of Community Colleges reviews draft expansion budget
Requests include $145 million in new instructional/operating funds, $231 million in equipment needs
WILMINGTON: Enrollment growth, faculty and professional staff salaries and equipment funding top the list of 10 major requests in the expansion budget draft reviewed today (Friday, September 17) by the State Board of Community Colleges. (Click here for copy of draft proposal.)
Herbert Watkins, Chair of the State Board's Finance and Capital Needs Committee, presented the draft, which represented consensus among System Office staff, representatives of local community college trustees, presidents, faculty, staff and students.
Kennon Briggs, Vice President of Business and Finance for the N. C. Community College System, walked board members through a document detailing systemwide equipment needs totaling more than $231 million and needs for new funds for instruction and operations totaling almost $145 million in FY 2005-2006 and $175.4 million in FY 2006-2007.
At its August 20 meeting, the State Board approved budget issues, listed without dollar amounts, to be addressed in the expansion budget draft. The Board will vote on the final proposal at its meeting in Raleigh October 14 - 15. Between now and then, System Office staff will circulate the draft to trustees, presidents, faculty and other major stakeholders within the community colleges. The final Expansion Budget Request is due in the State Office of Budget and Management October 31
Briggs commented that the draft request addresses the strains put on community college budgets by the escalating demands to retrain workers, boost economic development and guarantee state-of-the-art instruction.
Of the 10 areas in the draft request, Watkins pointed to enrollment growth, continued implementation of the salary plan to raise faculty and professional staff pay to national averages; and equipment funding to address more than $231 million in systemwide needs as the highest priorities. He suggested that State Board members consider designating a "second tier" of priorities within the full list as they continue work on the expansion request.
The draft request includes the following:
|
Equipment Funding (accumulated needs) |
231,972,835 |
|
Instructional/operating funding |
FY 2005-2006 |
FY 2006-2007 |
|
$30,292,443 |
$30,292,443 |
|
$27,030,804 |
$54,061,607 |
|
$28,979,168 |
$30,441,776 |
|
$3,722,066 |
$3,890,366 |
|
$7,101,864 |
$7,101,864 |
|
$18,603,779 |
$20,454,679 |
|
$11,191,013 |
$11,191,013 |
|
$15,715,335 |
$15,715,335 |
|
$2,339,953 |
$2,283,473 |
|
Instructional/operating totals |
$144,976,425 |
$175,432,556 |
In other actions today, the State Board:
- Approved establishment of a curriculum program in Nanotechnology at Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem, the first of its kind in the North Carolina Community College System.
- Approved establishment of a curriculum program in Business Operations/Operations Management at Davidson County Community College in Lexington.
- Approved the appointment of Dr. Kathleen S. Matlock as president of Southeastern Community College in Whiteville. Dr. Matlock is currently president of South Arkansas Community College.in El Dorado, Arkansas.
The State Board held its fall retreat and September meeting at Cape Fear Community College. The Board met today in the McKeithan Building on the North Campus in Castle Hayne.
The North Carolina Community College System is the state’s primary provider of workforce training, adult education and literacy programs. The System’s 59 institutions enroll more than 800,000 adults. For details about this release and the overall work of the system, contact the Public Affairs Office in Raleigh, 919-807-6962.
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