System president Bob Scott:
Colleges must remind
legislators of the need
By Marybeth Bianchi
Feature Editor
Community colleges receive only
7.9 cents of every dollar spent on
education in North Carolina. If they
want to increase that share, they’ll
have to become more aggressive,
the president of the statewide system
told Brunswick Community College
trustees last week.
Stopping at Supply for dinner on
Thursday as part of his 58-college
tour, Bob Scott said he was told by
state legislators, "You’re not being
aggressive enough, proactive" in
seeking funding. As a result, he said
he realized "we’d have to try some
thing if we’re going to be success
ful."
i hat something he has been
urging trustees around the state, in
cluding Brunswick Community Col
lege trustees, is to make those who
control the purse strings aware of
community college needs and con
cerns.
Historically, the community col
lege system has placed its needs on
the table and officials hoped they
got their share, Scott said. "But
there’s not enough money to go
around, so we have to push and
shove."
He shared with trustees several
ways they can strive to get more
money for community college pro
grams that serve ten percent of the
population.
He asked them to meet with their
legislators before they head to
Raleigh for the next session of the
General Assembly and to keep in
close contact with them in several
ways, including:
•Project 10,000. That’s 10,000
letters to legislators from all 58
community colleges between Janu
ary and the adoption of the 1993-94
budget.
Scott recommended each trustee
write three letters (a total of 2,500
for all trustees across the state), and
encourage students, business and
Bob Scott (left), president of the North Carolina Community College
System, joined Brunswick Community College president Michael
JReaves and his board of trustees for dinner last week as part of a
statewide effort to rally legislative support for community college fund
ing.
Scott said the idea
is to be a ‘constant
presence, reminder
to legislators about
community college
financial needs:
‘The idea is not to
let them for get you.’
community leaders and other sup
porters to write letters.
"We’re going to try to spread this
out so there are some letters coming
in all the time," Scott said.
•A day in the legislature. Scott
said by coordinating visits to the
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state legislature through the com
munity college trustees association,
"We can have somebody up there
about all the time," he said.
Although it’s "light years" until
the state budget is adopted, Scott
said the idea of the campaign is to
be a "constant presence, a reminder"
to legislators about community col
lege financial needs. "The idea is
not to let them forget you," he said.
The community college system
will be seeking nearly $60 million in
expansion funds for 1993-94. That
includes money to cover a 5.6
percent enrollment growth, competi
tive salaries, program improvement,
equipment, library books and
materials, technology centers, child
care grants, literacy education, hu
man resource development pro
grams, faculty upgrade, increase in
instruction support personnel, stu
dent progress monitoring system
and leadership development training
program. The current community
college system budget totals more
than $452 million, of which more
than 70 percent is funded by the
state.
Also before legislators is a S311
million bond issue for capital con
struction, which would provide for
the top two building priorities on
each campus.
"The talk from the legislature is
encouraging, but I’ve heard it be
fore," Scott said, recommending
trustees keep their funding requests
simple.
He suggested they ask legislators,
"‘Don’t you think the community
colleges are worth a dime?’ They
can understand that," he said.
"I’m encouraged. I think we can
do it."
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.elementary education from the Uni
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boro. She has been invited to partici
pate in the spring commencement
ceremony at UNC-G.
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done the first three months of the
project, and workers are "still trying
to play catch-up."
Jamie Milliken said trustees knew
when they hired Hatcher Construc
tion the company had "a bad track
record" and he claimed they were at
the mercy of the low bid which re
quired them to hire the firm.
"I’m not surprised. We’ll be lucky
to be in there by March the first,”
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bargaining chip.’
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abargaining chip."
DeBlois said the contractor is
looking for someone on whom to
blame the delays, but pointed out
this is the first time the college has
had a problem on a construction
project.
State construction is "bird
dogging" the project, DeBlois told
trustees. "We do have an ally there
that is very helpful."
DeBlois explained to trustees that
even though there is a clause in the
contract that says the contractor is
liable for the delay in completion,
the S250-a-day assessment in liqui
dated damages is not automatic. The
college must prove it sustained
damage in some way if it is to col
lect the money.
Trustees agreed to spend about
SI,400 for three Lucite chandeliers
for the lobby of the auditorium. Last
month the architect on the project
recommended crystal chandeliers
ranging in price from SI,500 to
SI 5,000 apiece.
In a related matter, trustees
received copies of the revised
master plan which includes a page
projecting the cost of various build
ing projects, figuring in inflation.
"This enables us to plan ahead for
sources of money," DeBlois said,
noting that the master plan, which
lists building needs up to the year
2000, is an "essential planning docu
ment."
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