AUBURN - Several versions and countless calculations later, Cayuga Community College has an approved budget.
The county Government Operations and Ways and Means committees unanimously approved CCC's $22,989,039 budget, an 8.1 percent increase from 2004-05. Legislators had rejected a $23,150,353 proposal last month.
The college's initial request for approximately $2.5 million from the county - a 3 percent increase from last year - remained the same.
"It was a pretty difficult exercise we had to go through," said college president Dennis Golladay, adding that the college's cabinet and board of trustees had to meet several times in the past few weeks to rework the numbers.
Golladay presented the final version of the budget at Monday night's joint committee meeting.
The version addressed what had been one of the legislators' main concerns - the draw on the fund balance.
In the proposal presented in July, the budget drew roughly $380,000 from the college's reserve fund of $1.1 million. The revised budget uses $297,991.
David Pappert, R-Auburn, who also sits on the college's board of trustees, believes that CCC might not have to touch that fund at all.
"I'm pretty confident that at that level we won't have to dip into it," said Pappert, who expressed his appreciation for the efforts of Golladay and Thomas Nagle, CCC's vice president of administration.
Pappert also alerted the board of trustees to the need to adjust the budget for increased health insurance costs, Golladay said. These figures are now more realistic, Pappert said.
While the numbers are more in line with what some legislators were hoping for, Golladay conceded that the budget cut process had "been with some pain."
In order to make the cuts, the college had to put some full-time instructor positions on hold.
"It is the full-time faculty that actually keeps the college's academic program in the state and quality that it needs to be," Golladay said, noting that the college is currently relying too much on adjunct instructors. "We don't want that to slip."
Golladay also said that the budget cuts could affect CCC's technology and equipment.
George Fearon, R-Springport, said that technology was a matter to be addressed.
"You may be able to hold off on that technology for a while, but if it's not dealt with, you're not going to be competitive," he said.
In other news:
- The Ways and Means committee passed a resolution allowing the county sheriff to receive $30,000 in grant money from the state Division of Criminal Justice Services. The money will be used for the Homeland Security Domestic Preparedness Program.
- Ways and Means also reviewed and discussed matters concerning the 2005 Cayuga County and City of Auburn auction of tax-foreclosed properties. The auction will be at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 8, at the Emerson Park Pavilion. Visit www.auctionsinternational.com to view the parcels.
Staff writer Linda Ober can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 237 or linda.ober@lee.net
The college's initial request for approximately $2.5 million from the county - a 3 percent increase from last year - remained the same.
"It was a pretty difficult exercise we had to go through," said college president Dennis Golladay, adding that the college's cabinet and board of trustees had to meet several times in the past few weeks to rework the numbers.
Golladay presented the final version of the budget at Monday night's joint committee meeting.
The version addressed what had been one of the legislators' main concerns - the draw on the fund balance.
In the proposal presented in July, the budget drew roughly $380,000 from the college's reserve fund of $1.1 million. The revised budget uses $297,991.
David Pappert, R-Auburn, who also sits on the college's board of trustees, believes that CCC might not have to touch that fund at all.
"I'm pretty confident that at that level we won't have to dip into it," said Pappert, who expressed his appreciation for the efforts of Golladay and Thomas Nagle, CCC's vice president of administration.
Pappert also alerted the board of trustees to the need to adjust the budget for increased health insurance costs, Golladay said. These figures are now more realistic, Pappert said.
While the numbers are more in line with what some legislators were hoping for, Golladay conceded that the budget cut process had "been with some pain."
In order to make the cuts, the college had to put some full-time instructor positions on hold.
"It is the full-time faculty that actually keeps the college's academic program in the state and quality that it needs to be," Golladay said, noting that the college is currently relying too much on adjunct instructors. "We don't want that to slip."
Golladay also said that the budget cuts could affect CCC's technology and equipment.
George Fearon, R-Springport, said that technology was a matter to be addressed.
"You may be able to hold off on that technology for a while, but if it's not dealt with, you're not going to be competitive," he said.
In other news:
- The Ways and Means committee passed a resolution allowing the county sheriff to receive $30,000 in grant money from the state Division of Criminal Justice Services. The money will be used for the Homeland Security Domestic Preparedness Program.
- Ways and Means also reviewed and discussed matters concerning the 2005 Cayuga County and City of Auburn auction of tax-foreclosed properties. The auction will be at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 8, at the Emerson Park Pavilion. Visit www.auctionsinternational.com to view the parcels.
Staff writer Linda Ober can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 237 or linda.ober@lee.net
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