NEWS
FEATURES
SPORTS
Cosmetology instructor Ken Kolle
retires after a successful tenure at
the college.
Page 6
Graduating students
bid PCC a fond
farewell.
Page 4
Softball players Chris Zboril and
Carol Schreiner are named
All-Americans.
Page 8
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
VOL. 79 No. 1
THE
COURIER
SUMMER EDITION
THURSDAY
June 23, 1994
By JACKIE LEE
Courier Staff Writer
Summer school students arc experi¬
encing a big shift in the parking scene,
because World Cup organizers struck a
$100,000 deal with college officials to
use the campus parking lots for fans at¬
tending the World Cup’s eight soccer
Please see WORLD CUP, Page 5
A parking crunch is created on the volleyball courts when faculty and staff cars were moved to
accommodate World Cup fans. Below: U.S. fans celebrate before boarding bus to the Rose Bowl.
World Cup invasion
College profits
from soccer
Proposition 1C
failure delays PE
complex construction
By ENRICO PIAZZA
Courier Staff Writer
Construction of the new Physi¬
cal Education complex and the re¬
modeling of the old library have
been delayed indefinitely because
of the defeat of Prop. 1C, the bond
issue on the June ballot. However,
school officials believe that the two
projects will eventually be com¬
pleted, since the state has already
spent money on the architectural
drawings.
“We pul our PE complex cam¬
paign on hold for now,” Dr. Jack
Scott, superintendent president, told
the Board of T rustees. “We have no
question the facility will oneday be
a reality.” He said the slate already
spent S9(X),000 for the architec¬
tural drawings of the facility, which
is currently the 1 19lh pro ject on the
state list of building construction
and remodeling.
“If the state intends, and it may,
to bring back another bond issue of
a similar nature in the November
election, then we’ 11 have the money
for those two projects in 1994-95,”
Scott added. “If they do not, then
they will bcdclayed as much as two
or three years, because next year is
not an election year.”
Scott said that because thepropo-
sition was designed strictly to pro¬
vide funds for construction and re¬
modeling of school facilities, so
called “capital outlay,” its defeat
will not affect the college opera¬
tional budget, nor will it interfere
with the completion of the parking
structure or the construction of the
newCommunity SkillsCenter. Both
of these projects have already been
approved and funded by the state.
The remodeling of the old li¬
brary will transform the 45-year-
old facility into a center for student
services, which are currently scat¬
tered all over the campus. This
project is currently number 139 on
the state list.
The two story PE complex will
include a gymnasium for physical
education classes, men’s and
women’s locker rooms and show¬
ers, weight training and sports medi¬
cine facilities, offices and support
facilities for the physical education
department faculty. The 65,000
square feet facility will also in¬
clude a three court basketball gym¬
nasium and support space for field
sports and spectator seating. The
cost of the project will be around
Please see: PROP. 1C, Page 5
СТА
contract negotiations on hold
By JOSE INOSTROZ
Courier Staff Writer
The defeat of Proposition
1C on the June ballot which
would have approved $ 2.2
million for the campus, has
caused contract negotiations
between the Pasadena Com¬
munity College District and
representatives of the PCC
chapter of the California
Teachers Association- to be
put on hold until August. Ne¬
gotiations between the
СТА
and the district have also
forced the golden handshake
program for retiring faculty
to be delayed.
“Extreme financial cir¬
cumstances” following a tax
revenue shortfall caused by
the Northridge earthquake
and a low voter turnout on
June 3 was blamed for the
defeat of the ballot measure.
“We are now turning our
attention to the (state) legis¬
lature,” said Ed Ortell,
СТА
chief negotiator. The hope is
to push for passage of AB
3474 which makes up for lost
revenue from lower property
taxes due to lower property
values. AB 973 would back
fi 1 1 on lost property taxes and
must be enacted before June
30, the end of the fiscal year
for immediate relief.
Once negotiations resume
in August, the priority will
be to negotiate for faculty
salaries. The faculty has not
received a raise in three years .
Another priority will be the
golden handshake program.
It encourages senior faculty
to retire two years early.
Patricia Mollica, dean of
human resources, said the
golden handshake program
which Gov. Wilson approved
on March 17 will last three
years. However, the Board
of Trustees has not accepted
it for PCC.
Since the 107 community
colleges function as indepen¬
dent entities, each college
must bargain for the golden
handshake locally.
Ortell and his team will
be pushing hard for what he
calls a “win win” program
which would not costthe dis¬
trict money.
The golden handshake
could save the district thou¬
sands of dollars since the in¬
structors who replace the re¬
tirees, are paid about half the
rate of senior faculty.
According to Ortell, this
could save S20,000 per in¬
structor a year.
Mollica said there are 16
faculty members retiring this
school year. She also said
that if implemented, a 120
day window period would
allow faculty to decide
whether to lake advantage of
the plan.
An eight hour meeting
before the end of the Spring
semester was interrupted
after opposing sides learned
that a 4.5 percent property
tax shortfall was to dramati¬
cally hit the college’s gen¬
eral budget. This means the
college would lose S 2.2 mil¬
lion out of the 1993-94
budget’s expected S60 mil¬
lion.
Councilman William Thompson
hears PCC neighbors’ concerns
ANA PERALTA/THE COURIER
District 7 Councilman William Thompson met
with college officials and neighbors to hear both
sides of the parking situation at PCC.