PCC Courier, July 31, 1981

VOL. 52, NO 3 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE,' PASADENA, CALIFORNIA JULY 31, 1981 Discussions On Budget Continue By Julien Orow Editor-in-Chief The Board of Trustees is ex¬ pected to approve the 1981-82 Pub¬ lication Budget tonight at its regu¬ lar meeting. The total district budget is $39,916,283. This is the third of the four budgets to be passed, the order being the pre¬ liminary, tentative, publication and adopted budgets. The Publication Budget al¬ locates funds to four general areas. The Health Fee Fund re¬ ceives $279,386, the Special Re¬ serve Fund gets $315,613, the Workers’ Compensation Self-In¬ surance Fund receives $459,714, and the General Fund is allocated the largest amount, $38,861,570. The Board of Trustees has been holding special meetings, in addi¬ tion to its regular meetings, all through July and' also most of June. The purpose of these meet¬ ings was to make any changes or cuts in the budget as it progressed from one stage to another. This has been a lengthy process, as it became necessary to make cuts in the budget. Hiring Freeze "The original budget was and is an' extremely tight document,” said Dr. Richard S. Meyers, PCC superintendent-president. He sug¬ gested that any cuts be made across-the-board, since he felt it would be hard to single out any particular areas to make drastic cuts in. Trustee David S. Hannah was in favor of putting a hiring freeze into effect at PCC. I think the only way we're going to be able to balance our budget is to put a hiring freeze on all personnel at the college, he said. "If we don’t do something now, we’re going to come up empty-handed,” he added. Trustee Gary B. Adams agreed, saying that vacancies should be examined very carefully when they occur, and serious thought be given as to which ones absolutely must be filled. ‘"Some of the facul¬ ty-student ratios are going to have to come up,” he said. Adams feels that the cuts have to be made in this area because nothing else will make this big a dent. "I realize that changes are painful, but it seems to me they have to come,” he said. Cutting Funds Some across-the-board cuts were suggested by Dr. Bonnie R. James, vice president of business services. These adjustments, which totaled $142,361, include cut¬ ting funds for instructional photocopying, conference atten¬ dance and .withdrawing from the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges. Revisions were also suggested regarding certain existing personnel vacan¬ cies. James suggested that new Band uniforms, totaling $27,970, be cut also. Total Federal Income of the General Fund for the Publication Budget is $3,134,910. This is an increase from last year’s adopted budget, which had a federal in¬ come of $2,341,151. The State In¬ come this fiscal year is $25,983,464, as compared to $23,852,986 in 1980-81. County and State incomes are $2,300 and $5,240,896 respec¬ tively. , The total 1981-82 income is $34,361,570, while the total avail¬ able is $39,161,570. The total expenditure for certificated and classified salaries, Employee Benefits, and non-salary costs is $33,108,387. This amount is the current cost of education. Capital outlay and oth¬ er miscellaneous costs round out the General Fund. In the Special Reserve Fund the total income is $315,613, while the Continued on page 6 <*£' x ...... Ili . \'vkr‘ , V NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE— The bargain ing team for the PCC faculty discuss contract demands to present to Pasadena Area Communi¬ ty College District officials. Seated from left are: Dr. Gary L. Woods, head of the negotiating team: Edward C. Ortell, spokesman for the team; and Robert L. DePew, team chairman. — Courier photo by Angie Majorca Contract Negotiations Are H eading T о ward impasse By Eddie J. Williams Staff Writer Contract negotiations between the California Teachers Associa¬ tion (СТА) and the Pasadena Area Community College District headed even closer to an impasse this month, as the district once again rejected the contract pro¬ posals tendered by СТА, most of which concerned money issues. The bargaining, already months behind schedule, now appears des¬ tined to go right down to the week before the beginning of the fall semester. On Sept. 13 the PCC faculty will meet in the Forum to decide whether to accept or reject the district’s final proposals. The reason the talks have drawn on so long is that the district has refused to discuss any of the con¬ tract revisions that have to do with Ben Rude Ends Visit to Denmark Fulbright Winner Returns to PCC By Anindita Saroso Associate News Editor Ben Rude, English as a Second I Language professor, recently re¬ turned from Denmark. He spent an academic year teaching in I teacher colleges in Copenhagen land the Jutland peninsula on his second Fulbright scholarship. II "Ben Rude Both schools were small and had classes with no more than 15 stu¬ dents in each class, he explained. Rude taught English vocabulary and pronunciation, literature, and methods of teaching English. In Denmark "classes are very informal. Relationship between student and teacher is on a first- name basis,” Rude said. '"Even in the lower level of education, rela¬ tionship is of equal status. Teach¬ ers are not the authority. “Students are also involved in their future. They decide what they will study in their classes,” he explained. “Teachers can not set the framework of the class and give the outline. It is democratic and cumbersome, and much more challenging.” During his visit in Denmark, Rude did not encounter any lan¬ guage barrier. “English and American culture influence is tre¬ mendously strong,” he said. “Lis¬ tening to the radio, we could not tell that we were in Denmark.” In addition to the English influence in Denmark, Rude also speaks Dano- Norwegian, a result of his Nor¬ wegian ancestry. “People tend to mistake me as a Swede, due to my accent." he said. “The most valuable aspect of the trip is that for a year I was in the situation my students experience here. The cultural and language differences have helped me ap¬ preciate my students' problems. The pace of life in Denmark is quieter and slower.” he explained. Public transportation and bicycles are the common forms of trans¬ portation. During Rude's stay in the Jutland peninsula, he mostly rode his bicycle for transportation. As competition against himself. Rude celebrated his 50th birthday riding 50 kilometers on his bicycle for five solid hours. Rude, two-time Fulbright schol¬ ar. has been affiliated with PCC since 1961 teaching English as a Second Language. In 1970 he moved into the office of foreign student adviser. Since Rude's re¬ turn, the administration hasn't de¬ cided what his position will be. finances, on the grounds that they had not passed a budget yet, said Dr. Gary Woods, who heads the CTA’s bargaining team. As of July 30 that obstacle disap¬ peared, yet, according to Woods, the district has only agreed to one of about 18 proposals. That item was the acceptance by the district of a different, CTA-approved life insurance plan that would more than double the benefits of policy¬ holders at an added cost of only about 15 cents per person. Demands Debated Meanwhile, action on the ma¬ jority of the teachers’ demands is still being debated. Those actions include securing a formula to re¬ store the lost pay of summer school instructors, who were only admitted into the collective bargaining unit of СТА two weeks ago, and so were denied raises for the three years prior to now in which they were not included in СТА contract agreements. СТА would also like to negotiate an across-the-board salary in¬ crease, probably in the double¬ digit range, which would bring PCC faculty into the median range for salaries in the Southern Cali- 1 fornia Community College area. Strike Discussed “Unless I get a good package,] I’m not ready to settle in Septem-I ber,” Woods said, emphasizing the] real possibility of a walk-out by] teachers in the fall. However, Superintendent-Presi¬ dent Richard S. Meyers states that I such a strike would be illegal. “We’re not going to stand by and see school not start, especially in the light of the clause in SB 160 which says that striking is against the law ... I hope they don’t | strike. The community and this I Board would not support a public employee strike. The faculty would be hurting themselves the most.” Woods, however, rebuts this. “The courts have never de¬ termined that it is illegal to strike. As long as we follow all the pro¬ cedures in the statute and prove that the district is not bargaining in good faith, it is not illegal to strike.” Youth Arrested on Campus Special Security Pays Off By Betty Kossick Staff Writer Pasadena police picked up a young black man at PCC's security office, July 14. for attempting to break into an automobile on campus. Ralph Riddle, director of security services, said. “The special enforcement has paid off! A ring of these fellows have been hitting public parking lots, and we've been watching for them. This fellow was observed and caught in the act.” Riddle explained the auto accessory theft has been running into grand theft because tape decks are one of the most common items to be stolen. “When the deck is ripped from the car the dashboard is usually badly torn up. This sometimes runs into $1,000, or more, in damages.” Although the suspect had identification on him the security officers have reason to think it's false. He would not give security personnel information. “He was very closed- mouthed,” Riddle said. “We feel sure he was not working alone in his theft attempt.”