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Appendix A: Budget History and Impact
Audience: Budget Committee, PRBC, and Administrators
Purpose: This analysis describes your history of budget requests from the previous two years and
the impacts of funds received and needs that were not met. This history of documented need
can both support your narrative in Section A and provide additional information for Budget
Committee recommendations.
Instructions: Please provide the requested information, and fully explain the impact of the budget
decisions.
Category
Classified Staffing (# of positions)
Supplies & Services
Technology/Equipment
Other
TOTAL
2011-12
Budget
Requested
60000
82410
485359
627769
2011-12
Budget
Received
0
67075
104636
2012-13
Budget
Requested
60000
93891
536225
2012-13
Budget
Received
0
93432
242754
171711
690116
336186
1. How has your investment of the budget monies you did receive improved student learning? When
you requested the funding, you provided a rationale. In this section, assess if the anticipated
positive impacts you projected have, in fact, been realized.
The automotive program budget is supported by the following: Faculty (General fund), all other
expenditures for tools, equipment, and supplies are provided through Measure B and Perkins funding.
There is NO operation budget provided by the college for our program.
The expenditures made over the last few years have been largely supported by Measure B for facility
improvements and new tools and equipment. Perkins funding has been utilized to provide operational
costs (consumables, instructional needs, and items not covered by Measure B).
The program has utilized the expenditures to maintain relevance with industry and to adhere to
programmatic accreditation (NATEF).
The student learning outcomes have been, and are directly impacted due to the items acquired, and by
those that have not been, as determined by our ability to perform various industry and programmatic
accreditation (NATEF) determined practical tasks and measures.
2. What has been the impact of not receiving some of your requested funding? How has student
learning been impacted, or safety compromised, or enrollment or retention negatively impacted?
Our inability to fund adequate amounts of industry relevant tools, equipment, supplies, and other
instructional impacting items has a direct impact on our ability to provide students with the varied
experiences and learning opportunities to better prepare them for industry. Students completing our
programs are expected to have obtained knowledge and experiences that are relevant to all vehicle
systems. We have been limited to the breadth and depth that we can provide to students to obtain that
experience.
Due to limited quantities of certain tools, equipment, and instructional aides, students can be exposed
to increased safety hazards due to larger group sizes. These larger group sizes also limit the personal
hands-on experiences for individual students and in some cases result in students leaving the program.
Our limited FTEF restricts our program in the number of course offerings which also impacts enrollment
and completion, which could be improved with sufficient offerings and equipment levels.