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Also, please visit the District's FAQ Web Site for more information 1320 - Part Time Faculty Board of Trustees Presentations Federal Economic Stimulus Package Fees - Resident Students Fees - Non-resident Tuition Revenue and Distribution of Expenses
The 1320 acronym simply reflects the account object code used to pay part time faculty. So whenever you hear 1320, just substitute part time faculty teaching costs and it will be the same designation. The importance of the 1320 budget is that the scheduling and enrollment management changes each quarter are managed by adjusting the part time faculty assignments in the numerous academic departments to respond to student demand for classes. As demand increases more part time faculty are hired to teach the classes, conversely, when demand softens fewer part time faculty are hired to teach in that academic department.
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California Secretary of State - 2009 Ballot Measures http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_j.htm.
Please click here for the impact to the State budget.
Oftentimes employees ask why we cannot use Measure C and E (bond) money to solve budget shortfalls. The bond money is restricted by law to only be used for capital outlay projects and the incidental costs of professionals devoted to the implementation of those capital outlay projects. These projects are paid for by bonds, which are sold by the district to raise money for designated capital projects and paid back by the taxpayers of our district over a (roughly) 30 year time period. Consequently, these dollars cannot be used to pay any operating expenses. The Citizens Bond Oversight Committee meets on a regular basis to ensure that all expenditures for bond projects meet the legal state and local requirements for expenditures of these bond monies.
Although the state originally proposed $39.8 million in their California Community Colleges 2008-09 budget for COLA, which would have given FHDA a 0.68% COLA, this $39.8 million was eliminated from the signed 2008-09 budget. There is also no COLA for California Community Colleges in the 2009-10 year. Also, see the District's information on COLA vs. salaries and benefits. Click here for an explanation of the COLA, apportionment & growth process.
The percentage by which an expected allocation of funds to a school district or county office of education is reduced. The state may apply deficit factors to revenue limits and categorical programs when the appropriation is insufficient based on the funding formulas specified by law. The Chancellor’s Office recently reported that, due mostly to a property tax shortfall (where projected tax revenues fall below actual levels), Community College districts should expect a deficit factor of 1.2%. In other words, for each $1.00 in apportionment revenue to our District, we should expect to receive just 98.8 cents. For a district as large as ours, each 1% in apportionment monies works out to be approximately $1 million dollars. Until the budget process is finalized, this deficit factor could change.
Please see the district's FAQ on this subject.
Please see the District's FAQ on this question. A good web site for current information is the California Legislative Analyst's Office at http://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/main.aspx
The signed budget for 2009-10 did not include student fee increases but the budget that was sent to the Governor for signature on July 24, 2009 included an increase in student fees from $20 to $26 per semester credit unit effective Fall 2009. The fee for quarter units is $17. This would raise $80 million in revenues that are used to mitigate cuts to categorical programs and general apportionment. It is useful to remember that with the exception of non-residents, community colleges do not keep student fees but currently get paid $4500 per FTES from the State.
July 27, 2009
Jack Scott SUBJECT: Enrollment Fee Increase
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June 25, 2009 The apportionment payment exhibits for the Second Principal Apportionment (P2) have been posted on our website along with an updated Exhibit D for the 2007-08 Recalculation. Please note that the P2 Apportionment allocation was based on the 2008-09 Budget Act enacted on February 20, 2009. This P2 Apportionment does not reflect current proposals by both the Governor and the Legislature to amend the 2008-09 Community College Budget, which include an $85 million reduction in general fund resources and an additional $115 million 2008-09 deferral. Depending on the final disposition of the 2008-09 Budget, the Chancellor’s Office will either post a revised P2 or make any 2008-09 changes as part of the final recalculation in February 2010. http://www.cccco.edu/SystemOffice/Divisions/FinanceFacilities/FiscalServices/AllocationsSection/ApportionmentReports/tabid/329/Default.aspx What Is Full Time Faculty Obligation (FTFO) & Why Is It Important We Comply?There is a state regulation that requires community college districts to hire a minimum number of full time (FT) faculty each year. The district's FTFO is 516. We are currently over our minimum faculty obligation of 516 by 11 faculty positions district-wide. To date, we have approximately 23 vacant faculty positions. This means that the district will need to refill a minimum of 12 faculty positions in order to meet our FTFO of 516 and avoid penalties. Our FTFO for 2009-10 FY will remain at 516 according to the State Chancellor’s decision issued in November 2008. Penalties would cost the district approximately $30k per position.
The situation is very fluid with changes to the budget being discussed everyday. For the latest information on the state budget please go to the latest news page. Please click here for an explanation of growth and apportionment.
Please click here to see the District's information on this topic. While there are a number of changes that have occurred in the district budget in the last two years to cause this imbalance in revenues and expenses, the fundamental problem was that salaries and benefit costs have increased far beyond the cost of living adjustment the district received from the state. While there was a marginal deficit occurring in 2007-08 because of these interactions, it is more clearly seen in the 2008-09 year and the projections for 2009-10. Since the district did not receive any additional money in the form of a COLA in 2008-09 to cover rising expenses, the impact of the rising costs of health insurance in 2008-09 was not covered by any ongoing new income. This same interaction will be true in 2009-10, since once again there will not be any new money coming from the State in the form of a COLA, consequently any increases in expenses like the rising costs of benefits have to be offset by cutting the budget somewhere else. Negotiations with our vendors and renewal of provider contracts resulted in savings of approximately $.481 million, guaranteed for three years. The employee bargaining units have agreed to changes in plan design of $.371 million. The district will also require full implementation of employee paid PPO (the PPO+) plan co-insurance for dependent and family coverage yielding an additional $.109 million. Across all funds this totals $.961 million. The savings projected in the Unrestricted General Fund (Fund 14) is $.75 million. The district and employee groups will need to have ongoing discussions regarding significant changes to the benefit plans. Our benefit costs are increasing at a rate disproportional to the revenue received to cover the increase in costs. We must come to agreement to transform our current plan structure in order to reign in the escalating costs associated with benefits. The increases for FY 2008-09 ($2.8M) and FY 2009-10 ($3.2M) account for $6 million of the structural deficit.
De Anza College has been the sponsor of a Statewide Job training program known as Job Corps. This program was constructed to provide job training at a number of different sites in the State. The faculty were hired as part time faculty through De Anza, the students received academic credit, an administrative fee was paid to a vendor for coordinating the program, providing equipment, facilities and supplies, and the college received apportionment money to fund the program. A recent internal review by the college determined that the new state guidelines would not allow this type of program to continue. Consequently, the program was discontinued at almost all of the sites effective for the Winter Quarter 2009. This will result in an enrollment decrease for De Anza of about 1,400 FTES (or about 7%) in the 09-10 academic year.
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For the latest information on the state budget please go to the latest news page.
For the most current information on the state budget please go to the latest news page.
It is always useful to remind ourselves that we are absolutely dependent on FTES (enrollment) for our revenue. You will see from the attached chart that 99% of our general fund revenue is generated by FTES. That is why there is so much emphasis on FTES and particularly the recovery of FTES from the Job Corp loss in the 2009-10 year. The pie chart on expenses displays the breakdown of categories of expense, but highlights that 84% of the district expenses are used for salaries and benefits of employees.
Please click here for the latest update on the State Revenue Outlook from the LAO's office and see the latest news items from the home page.
Please click here to read the District's information on this topic. FHDA has identified the following goals, consistent with its Educational Master Plan, to guide our efforts in bringing the budget into structural balance by June 30, 2010.
De Anza is in the midst of an internal review led by Stephanie Sherman to determine which classes assigned TBA hours will now meet the more stringent guidelines the state has issued on the collection of WSCH for these types of assignments. The State guidelines have become more clear and more stringent for any WSCH collected through these types of classes. Since the college collects apportionment funding for this WSCH, the State has a keen interest in making sure all colleges are fully compliant with the strict guidelines if they report this WSCH for apportionment funding. It is clear that the college will lose some WSCH that might have been collected in the previous years, but he scope of that WSCH loss is not yet known on an annual basis. This will put increasing pressure on the college to make up for this loss of WSCH through regular on campus sections.
The college is expediting the program review process, which was scheduled to conclude in the Spring Quarter so that this information can be used by the Planning and Budget Teams, the Campus Budget Team, and College Council, the Senates, to formulate their recommendations to the President regarding the final package of proposed reductions
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