Tracy Jones Roundup
Budget Committee Meeting held September 7, 2010 1:30pm in the Administration
Conference room.
There is still much debated over Pierce Colleges’ budge disbursements. The committee
sits patiently, while waiting for unanswered questions from the variety of problems and
the lack of money that the school needs in order to benefits the teachers and students. The
committee had announced a new Grant writer, Patrick Slayer, a grant writing specialist
to help organize funding for our school. There’s still a lot of construction that is needed
at our school. The committee discusses the construction of a new performance art center.
The head architect Joe Seyen, displayed a slide show of ideas planned for the Performance
art center. He vividly showed the committee a bird eye’s view of a beautifully remodeled
decor of the center, explaining that it needs a variety of entrances and easy accesses
for wheelchair students. Seyan explained that the wood roof that covers the area was
getting old and needed to be remodeled. He also clarified that the auditorium was “to old
looking” and needed a more futuristic stadium look, with possibly an elevators, and a
new state of the art audio studio for the students. In spite of this, the construction of the
mall completion agenda seems to get further and further away from the projected finished
dated. The anticipated time has moved to late November. It seems as if they cannot finish
one job before starting another.
The committee said that” Recommend to the Pierce College Council the purchase of
the complete photocopier system for CopyTech as specified in [Their] handouts, at
a purchase price of $419,567 and first-year maintenance cost of $43,260, for a total
first-year cost of $462,827 and a total five-year cost for equipment and maintenance of
$635,867, including a five-year maintenance cost contract for $ 216,300. Larry Krause
joined the committee and distributed hard copies of documents titled” High Production
Photocopy Services.” He declares that when Pierce College receives donations of an old
and used copiers, the machine needs maintenance and it cost to keep them up is for more
money that to get a newer model. He used the analogy by saying” if you use any type of
electronic equipment it constantly needs to be fixed and taking care and that cost money a
swell”
Pierce budging isn’t going as well as the committee would like it to. Together with
parking and cafeteria fund there in a combines net loss of $413,459.Thats not very
good at all, especially with the declining sell’s of the book at the student book store.
Pierce Colleges’ book store is competing with other textbook stores or even the internet.
Students are buying book outside of Pierce College to obtain a cheaper and more
affordable text book. Consequently, Pierce is losing more and more money by the
competitors. In additional The Child Development department also suffers a deficit of
$138, 815.
Tracy Jones