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Volume 6 Issue 17
"Growing with a growing community." New Contract Cures MSC
Audit Report Poses Merger
February 1,. 1984
'Headache~
Pri.n ting Dispute
Battle Lines Drawn
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by Kevin Vaughan News Editor, The Metropolitan
by ·Carson Reed
Faculty and administrators at MSC are once again getting their printing done on campus--the result of a compromise credit agreement between MSC and the AHEC printing office. The printing office cut off service to MSC last October, claiming that the appropriated budget for printing for fiscal year 1983 had been used up. But earlier this month, officjals of AHEC and MSC signed an agreement which makes provisions for MSC to pay its outstanding bills and establish a line of credit for the coming year. The dispute . arose last fall over whether t~e surplus in MSC's printing appropriation was cumulative. Believing they were, MSC assumed it had over $40,000 in ctedit coming, · but AHEC had turned the left over monies back into its general fund at the end of each year. Operating under the assumption that it had credit remaining, MSC ran up a $49,148 tab above and beyond the then-existing credit agreement.
Editor, The Metropolium
State auditors Robert Scott and Robert Haddock presented the loQgawaited findings of the state performance audit of the Auraria campus to a full house last Wednesday night. At the hearing before the legislative audit committee, the auditors presented a total of fourteen recommendations for changes under the current structure of the campus. But the auditors first suggested that the entire list of recommendations could be solved by placing the campus under a single board or <;ommittee with full responsibility for resolving campus problems. They suggested that could be accomplished either through creation of a mediating or arbitrating board, consolidation of the schools under a single board, or merger of the three schools into a single institution.
The dispute arose last fall over whether the surplus in MSC's printing appropriation was cumulative.
.."The Trustees already have experience governing colleges with multiple ro~s." -Trustee Sweetkind The Auditors concluded that, although the Auraria campus "works well," and the three schools have stayed true to their original missions, change is needed. Reading from the report, Haddock said:"We found that Metropolitan State College, the University of Colorade at Denver and the Community College of Denver have successfully provided students with a diversity of educational opportunities. In addition, the Auraria Higher Education Center Board and its staff have done a good job of providing non-academic services. (However) Achieving this continued on page 3
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Presses are rolling again for MSC.
Pipe Pies Page 5
photo by Jack Affleck
Grinch Steals Dinner Page 12
The new contract, which was approved January 10 by MSC President Richard Fontera and AHEC Executive Director· Jerry Wartgow, outlines plans for MSC to pay the outstanding · bill over a five-year period. Also as part of the agreement, AHEC agreed to extend $95,000 in credit to MSC and not to charge any interest for carrying the $49,000 debt. According to Jim Vanderhye, MSC Vice President for Business and Finance, the new credit agreement means one less headache for MSC, because the school was having to go off campus to get its printing work done "Our routine was interrupted, and when one's routine is interrupted things can be difficult," Vanderhye said. "We are now back tising the services at Auraria." A January 16 memo from Jim Schoemer, Deputy Executive Director of AHEC, establishes the actual amount of credit available to MSC for the coming year as $83,270. 0
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