EL CAMINO COLLEGE
Planning & Budgeting Committee
Minutes
Date: December 15, 2011
MEMBERS PRESENT
DeSanto, Michael – Campus Police
Natividad, Rory – Mgmt/Supervisors
Patel, Dipte – Academic Affairs
Quinones-Perez, Margaret – ECCFT
Reid, Dawn – Student & Community Adv.
Shenefield, Cheryl – Administrative Svcs.
Spor, Arvid – Chair (non-voting)
Tomoda, Kenji – ASO
Turner, Gary – ECCE
Widman, Lance – Academic Senate
OTHERS ATTENDING: Francisco Arce, Alice Grigsby, Jo Ann Higdon, Jeanie Nishime, John
Wagstaff
Handouts:
Budget Update-Triggers memo
The meeting was called to order at 1:10 p.m.
Approval of December 1, 2011 Minutes
1. Corrections:
a. Page 1, PBC Agenda Development, #1 – add “planning agenda” after master plan in last
sentence.
b. Page 2, #3 – spelling correction (Managers).
2. Accreditation occurs every six years. ECC submitted the mid-term report last October. There is a
two year lead time to identify and train co-chairs, steering committees and sub-committees.
3. Do not foresee any changes to the technology plan in the comprehensive master plan.
4. The minutes were approved as amended.
Budget Update – Triggers (J. Higdon)
1. Tier 1 reduction triggers were pulled. Tier 2 reduction triggers were pulled and fully enacted for
community colleges, but not for K-12. Will learn reduction amounts from the Chancellor’s
office. A Daily Breeze article contained old, preliminary numbers – reductions may be slightly
higher.
2. ECC is prepared for both triggers which is reflected in the budget. The challenge will come from
pending State lawsuits. The State lost the $1 billion tobacco lawsuit. Other pending lawsuit
decisions will be known by January 15th. So far, it does not appear that cuts not made to K-12
will come from community colleges, but there may be future cuts between now and June 30th
depending on the outcome of State lawsuits. LAUSD has pending $38 million lawsuit against the
State.
3. Hope to have more information on triggers in a week and will check the details received with
ECC’s budget.
4. At this time there will be no cuts to ECC’s budget. Audit report will be completed in early
January – some issues still to be resolved. Assuming issues are resolved as expected, budget
numbers will not change. Will bring segments of the audit report to PBC as suggested at the last
meeting. J. Higdon will send the committee the link to the report as soon as it’s posted on the
web.
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5. 15-20 full-time faculty positions to be funded next fiscal year. Bringing in new faculty is key to
student success. Undetermined what the faculty obligation will be – tied to triggers. Some
obligations will be reduced, some temporarily. President is interested in staying above the
obligation. Current obligation is down compared to previous years due to decrease in FTES.
Compton is planning to hire 9-10 new full-time faculty.
The committee agreed to cancel the January 5th meeting.
The next meeting is scheduled on January 19, 2012.
The meeting ended at 1:30 p.m.
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