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Thursday, September 28, 1995
Vol. 49, No. 11
Dis·trict's budget is complete
Election ·rules tightened by J.S. Sarmento
by Kirsten Smith Editor-·in-Chief After nearly a year of speculating, estimating and proposing, the San Jose/Evergreen Community College District adopted a 199596 budget. Between the districtoffice, City College and Evergreen Valley College, the option adopted was a 60%-20%-20% ratio of cuts. This translates to a $188,000 cut in the budget of both City College and EVC and a $564,000 cut at the district office. "This is probably the best budget year seen in a while," said Chris Brown, director of fiscal operations . The budget was adopted in August. City College also had $350,000 infusion of funds so t11at cuts weren' t harsh ones. Title III funds expire this month so beneficiaries of Title III funds have been reallocated money in order to continue. Budget proposals consisted of many diffe rent options mainly dependent upon the outcome of the state's budget. ''The state adopts a fallacious budget and we're stuck witll it," Brown said. Funding from the state to community colleges comes from property taxes and, according to Brown, tlle state over estimates the property tax revenue in order to balance their own budget. According to City College President Raul Rodriguez, only half the allotted money from the state was actually received, but the Legislature ;ipproved acost of living adjustment (COLA) an d that money was incorporated into the entire budget plan. "We clearly don' t get enough money from t11e state to run our institution," Drown said. 1l1is is why fundraising is expected to be alarge partofCity College's future. A feasibility study was just conducted which determines to what extent the community is willing to support the college. "We have to find out whether the odds will be in our favor," Rodriguez said. "Some places the community support is high, some it's not," said Brown, "Our problem witll fundraisers in the past is we haven't tended to mix fun with tllem." The sale of seats in the theater Started during the spring '95 semester and has raised almost $)2,000 said Judy Rookstool, interim development director.
Staff Writer
Traffic school means revenue by Lisa Truong Staff Writer
Dangerous driving, speeding and wrong turns are luring new students to San Jose Ci ty College. City College could gain an estimated $30,000 from the traffic school offered by t11e San Jose/ Evergreen Community College District. The Institute for Business and Community Development has been awarded a contract from the Santa Clara County Municipal Court to provide driver improvement training at City College and Evergreen Valley College. The Governing Board ofTrustees of the San Jose/Evergreen Community College District approved t11e agreement on Sept.12.
"We anticipate that they will get $30,000 from the traffic school," said Anna Woods the director of business and community linkage s at th e In s titute. The
In conjunction with West Valley, Mission and Gavilan Colleges, the district will be doing business as the Alliance of Community Colleges for Traffic Safety.
The primary contract holder for this agreement is the San Jose/ Evergreen Community College District and will subcontract witll West Valley, Mission and Gavilan Colleges. The contract agreement is for a of one year, and tlle Alliance will be allowed to continue service after that year at tlle discretion of the Municipal Court. Students are referred to the traffic school tluough the Municipal Court. The court has allowed tllese people, who have received a moving violation ticket, to have the driver improvement training instead of having the ticket become a part of their permanent record. The traffic school will give instruction, approved by tlle Depart
See Traffic, page 8.
Commissioner of Elections David Voepel is tightening reins on candidates for the Associated Student elections of Oct. 3-7 because of protests regarding the lack of campaign poster removal which almost led to the resignation of tllree ASC members. As of Sept. 26, all candidates are required to remove election fliers when polls open and must provide Voepel witll a map detailing the location of fliers . In addition, tllere is no campaigning of any kind for t11e position of district student trustee once the polls open. Voepel imposed these new election rules as a result of R. J. Rivera , district student trustee candidate and former A.S. president, violating election codes. Rivera failed to remove election fliers within one week oftlle spring '95 elections. The fliers remained posted throughout the summer and into the fall semester. The ASC first decided on sanctions against Rivera in a special session held Sept. 7. Rivera was tllen instructed to remove all existing fliers and was restricted to 10 postings, which were to be removed when the polls opened. In the following ASC meeting Rivera protested sanctions because the ASC violated state law by not following proper procedure in holding the special session. "The sanctions were decided upon in tlle same meeting that they were brought forw ard," said Rivera. According to Rivera, state law requires items to be put forward for discussion first, then action can be taken at a later meeting. The ASC and Rivera debated thes~ points during the meeting, but couldn't come to a resolution. Discussions were postponed until the next meeting. In an attempt to deal witll the sanctions, Rivera met privately with David Voepel, commissioner of elections. According to Voepel, Rivera proposed that he put up a bond of $40, if he did not pull down his fliers witJ1in two weeks the ASC could keep the money. "I said hey, let's try to settle t11is outside of council, let's try to come to some equitable resolution outside of council. Why take up council time for this (tlle sanctions)," said Rivera of the offer. According to Rivera, Voepel
See ASC, page 5