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Second Session Axed
School Budget Cut
By Arthur Wood
Staff Writer
Second summer session is out,
as well as faculty pay cuts and
overloads for fall semester
following adoption of the
preliminary 1978-79 budget by the
Board of Trustees.
Non-credit courses may have
fees imposed as well as other
school activities. A health ser¬
vices fee will definitely be
charged.
All in all, $3.15 million, less than
half the amount anticipated, was
trimmed from the operating
budget for the next fiscal year. Dr.
Charles F. Miller, vice president
for business services, called it
“better news than we were able to
bring a month ago.”
The saving factor in the budget
preparation was Senate Bill No.
159, passed by the Legislature
after the passage of Proposition
13. The law is designed to help
local governments deal with the
loss of county tax revenues by
disbursing surplus state money to
them.
Article 5 of S B. 159 allots $260
million to community colleges in
order to let them achieve 85 per
cent of the previous year’s budget.
It also requires each college to
utilize one-third of its un¬
committed reserves as part of its
budget.
Uncommitted reserves are any
funds which a college has left over
and does not already owe for
services and products it has
received. Funds committed
through contracts before June 6,
1978 are excluded from state
assessment.
PCC’s chargeable share of its
reserves comes to about $590,000.
The areas most affected by
cutbacks in the budget are non¬
credit programs (cut two-thirds),
capital outlays including lease-
purchase agreements and
maintenance expenditures.
Administrative personnel will
be reassigned and counselors put
on 1 1-month contracts. Vacancies
that occur will not be filled,
amounting to a $170,000 savings.
Other cuts include hourly salary
rate for certificated and classified
employees who do not work full
time. Employee benefits will be
cut by $52,000.
Looking toward possible hard
times in the 79-80 fiscal year, the
Board would not allow raises
beyond those already allowed in
the budget. These included mainly
incremental, or cost-of-living
increases.
These will not come
automatically after next year
unless more money is found.
Trustee David Hannah pointed
out, “Next year we’ll all be going
through the same process again.”
Sabbaticals for faculty mem¬
bers were not cut since the
preliminary budget made
provision for them and the Board
had committed itself to them in
January.
CHARLES F. MILLER
COIRiE4
VOL. 46, NO. 2
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
JULY 14, 1978
Students, Faculty Object to
Committee Representation
By Jill Bauer
Staff Writer
Students and faculty have ex-
pressed considerable
dissatisfaction with their
representation on the Screening
and Interviewing Committee that
will find a replacement for
President-Superintendent E.
Howard Floyd.
As approved by the Board of
Trustees, the committee will have
15 voting and 2 non-voting
members. The faculty will have
one voting representative, the
Schnabel, Watson
New Chairpersons
Both Feel Diversity , Adaptability Are
Their Department's Strongest Attractions
students one non-voting member.
The faculty voiceditscomplaints
at a Faculty Senate Board (FSB)
meeting. Some of the faculty were
upset by the size of the com¬
mittee ; others were disturbed that
seven voting members of the
committee were to be chosen by
the Board of Trustees, though the
faculty would have only one voting
member.
Associate Professor of English
Maria DiMassa stressed the
importance of faculty par¬
ticipation in the process of
selecting a new president, saying,
“I predict that this person will be
here for most of the rest of my
professional career.”
The Faculty Senate chose FSB
Vice President Fay E. Chandler
as its representative and decided
to ask the Board for two more non¬
voting representatives.
Board President Charles F.
Briscoe responded, “The policy is
set.” There was more support for
a voting student, however.
FSB President Watson and
Trustee Walter T. Shatford
supported the students’ request
for voting representation.
Sharford commented, “I don’t
know what we’re afraid of.”
The Board decided to defer a
decision on the requests from
students and faculty until its next
meeting on July 20.
Sabbaticals Stay
Teachers who had planned
sabbaticals for this year will be
allowed to take them. Twenty
teachers will be leaving on sab¬
baticals for 78-79.
“We’re obligated to honor the
ones we’re already committed to,
but people who may be eligible
next year should make other
arrangements until the Board
makes a decision on sabbaticals in
the future,” said Board of
Trustees member David Hannah.
The board is unsure whether
sabbatical leaves will be con¬
tinued, but will look into revision
of the current policy.
Assistant Professor Chrystal
Watson and Professor David J.
Schnabel don’t have much in
common— except that they are
the new chairmen of their
respective departments, com¬
munications and art.
CHRYSTAL WATSON
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DAVID J. SCHNABEL
Schnabel says, “1 represent
what we expect of everyone in the
department.” He considers
himself a teacher and an artist,
and doesn't put one above the
other. His art style “has a will of
its own" but apparently it has
been a style that people like,
because his work is in many
private collections, including
those of Anthony Quinn and
Howard Ahmanson.
Ms. Watson started out as a
history major at PCC, but she
switched to speech when a teacher
encouraged her efforts in this
area. She went on to win speech
national championships.
Schnabel signed on at PCC in
1950 and has seen the department
grow from eight instructors to the
present 57. He has taught the
gamut of courses from art history
to apparel arts. The art depart¬
ment is a good department,
Schnabel believes, and “by its
variety, it can reach a wide range
of students."
The new communications
department chairman taught at
the University of Florida before
coming to PCC in 1969. Since then
she has coached champions and
helped many students. She is
presently president of the Faculty
Senate Board, an office she will
relinquish in August to assume the
duties of department chairman.
Ms. Watson believes in her
department and feels there should
be more promotion of the of¬
ferings of the department. She
comments, “People don’t realize
the utility of many of the courses
that are offered.”
Under Ms. Watson chair¬
manship, the “department will
continue its ongoing process of
adapting its curriculum to student
change."
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IT‘S NEW— Dwight Morgan demonstrates the use of the new stage department
sound equipment. Stage manager Don Keck recommended that the equipment
be replaced 22 years ago and if finally was— at the last minute by the Board of
Tru SteeS . — Courier Photos by Joseph El-Chemaly
Audio Equipment Purchase
Granted in Last Minute Bid
By Jill Bauer
Staff Writer
Sound equipment for Sexson Auditorium
has been acquired by the stage department.
Stage manager Don. C. Keck said he
recommended PCC replace the present home¬
made sound system when he came to PCC 22
years ago.
The possibility of buying the equipment
arose when Keck heard second-hand that the
Board of Trustees might approve previously
frozen purchases because of a state law
provision, funding community colleges.
The law penalizes community colleges for
any reserve over five percent, so Dr. Charles
F. Miller, Vice President of Business Affairs,
asked for funding approval of certain
critically needed items. In order to be taken
out of this year’s fiscal reserve, the items had
to be delivered by the next day.
The sound equipment was not among these
items because of the difficulty of getting bids
on the equipment and having it delivered by
the following day.
It turned out that one tape recorder was
deleted from the request, putting the purchase
under $12,000.
Purchases over $12,000 require bidding by
law.
Stage manager Keck worked past mid¬
night and his assistants traveled as far as
Anaheim to pick up the audio console, am¬
plifiers, and transformers, insuring delivery
by June 30, the last day of the fiscal year.