Clarendon College Regents approved an $8.9 million budget for the coming fiscal year during their regular meeting last Thursday.
The overall budget is $542,961 higher than the current budget, which is broken into two parts. The growth is seen in the Education & General Budget for fiscal year 2010, which is $6.78 million, an increase from $6.21 million last year.
CC President Bill Auvenshine said the higher budget is attributed to increased enrollment at the college and additional funding from the state for property-poor college districts.
“This was the easiest budget I’ve ever put together because we had money to work with,” Auvenshine said. “Of the departments that came through the budget process and hearings, we were able to do about 98 percent of what was asked for.”
Auvenshine said a lot of the new money in next year’s budget is going into new positions for student services, specifically a full-time marketing position, a secretary for the dean of students, and an enrollment services counselor. Money is also going back into the college’s physical plant with several improvement projects that had previously been delayed due to lack of funding.
The second part of the budget – the Auxiliary Budget – actually decreased slightly from $2.157 million currently to $2.138 million in FY 2010. Auvenshine said that partly reflects a decrease in the number of rodeo scholarships the school plans to give.
CC Regents still have to set a property tax rate for FY 2010. The current rate is $0.231125 per $100 valuation; but Auvenshine said that since property values have increased about a million dollars, the college will likely adopt the effective rate of $0.221404 and bring in the same money as last year.
The tax rate will be considered at the board’s September 17 meeting.
In other college news, regents approved the purchase of welding equipment for new vocational programs in Clarendon and Pampa at a cost of $27,986. Additional surplus equipment was purchased from Frank Phillips College.
Herring Bank was selected as the college’s bank depository.
A resolution was approved authorizing the lease-purchase of two new buildings at the CC Pampa Center. The facilities will be financed and built by Gray County and paid for with maintenance tax funds levied in that county.
The board gave Raymond Jaramillo the new title of Vice President of the Pampa Center. He previously held the title of “dean.”
Regents also ratified the hiring of Teresa Juarez as a fulltime custodian in Clarendon.
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