Welding
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
No Change
30,159
No Change
No Change
30,159
2011-12
Budget
Received
No Change
30,159
No Change
No Change
30,159
2012-13
Budget
Requested
No Change
40,000
No Change
No Change
31,785
2012-13
Budget
Received
No Change
30,276
No Change
No Change
30,276
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.
100% of the budget monies provided for the welding program needs was based on the availability of
Perkins fund rather than to originate from the college general fund. The received funding partially
satisfied the purchases of welding consumables, accessories and equipment maintenance needed to
accommodate students in the welding laboratory. These welding consumables consist of: industrial
welding gasses, welding rods, welding materials, welding metals, welding tips, hoses, cables, etc…
The purpose of Perkins fund is to promote technological advancement of the program; instead the fund
was spent to keep with the continuously increasing consumable prices. This program is striving to
uphold and improve student learning experiences even in these difficult and challenging circumstances.
In the 2011-2012 year, the total cost just for the shop consumables, industrial gasses and accessories
totaled to approximately $30,000 that was used on 361 students (there were no classes’ summer 2011
due to lab renovations). The average cost per student came to be $83.10 per semester for consumables.
This figure doesn’t take in consideration the costs of scrap metal, which comes to be a total estimated
cost of $20,000 annually. The total cost per student per semester for consumables and scrap metal is
$138.50. During this time all the prices for consumables and metal have drastically increased causing
more strain and pressure on a program that running very lean with no general funding support.
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?
The funding that was given was taken from the Perkins fund. This federal fund was established and
intended for the technological advancement of the program through the purchase of new welding
equipment, software, shop equipment and promoting new technology. Due to the lack of the general
fund, the welding program is forced to use this fund to sustain the students need for welding
consumables. Also the welding program heavily relies on company donations of scrap metal to keep the
program running, which costs approximately 20,000-25,000 annually. Currently the welding program
receives no support from the general fund for shop expenses and services, which are vital for student
learning. If the funding is not received, it will have a direct impact on the students. The students will not
be able to conduct the laboratory tasks and complete the student learning objectives without the use of
the required consumables and scrap metal to do so. Thus, lack of funding will directly negatively impact
each students learning experience and limit their academic growth.