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Uploaded: Thursday, September 20, 2012, 7:02 AM
Updated: Friday, September 21, 2012, 6:38 AM
City College of S.F. on brink of insolvency, state takeover
Has twice as many full-time faculty as at similarly-sized community colleges, study shows
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City College of San Francisco could be on the brink of insolvency because of high spending that is at odds with ongoing funding cuts from the
state level, according to a financial review of the school released Tuesday.
The report by the state's Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team, tasked with providing financial assistance to California school districts, states that City College "has provided salary increases and generous benefits with no discernible means to pay for them."
The report was released prior to Tuesday's meeting of City College's Board of Trustees and said that the school is at "a point at which it must either make significant and ongoing budget adjustments or face the prospect of insolvency and possible state intervention."
Among its findings, the state agency reported that City College employs about twice as many full-time faculty as its similarly sized community college peers.
The school is also basing its budget on the assumption that local and state tax measures will pass and "has not developed a plan" to deal with
the $11.5 million budget deficit that would occur if they both fail, the report states.
The state agency also found that City College's contracts with its labor unions "may not be sustainable in this economic environment."
Provisions in the contracts include providing full health and welfare benefits to part-time employees, giving 23 paid holidays per year and
the ability to earn 22 days of vacation per year after 10 years of service at the school.
The state agency recommended that the school be "more aggressive in reducing its expenditures," which it called "challenging but ... essential
to avoid insolvency."— Bay City News Service Are you receiving Express, our free daily e-mail edition? See a sample and sign-up for Express.
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Posted by Kevin, a resident of the Jensen Tract neighborhood, on Sep 21, 2012 at 5:35 am "CCSF has a huge number of ESL (English as Second Language) classes, which must be kept small if they are to be effective"
There is supposed to be a requirement that students show an "ability to benefit" in order to be accepted into a state college. Tax dollars should not be spent at the college level to instruct students who are not proficient in english and are not prepared for college classes.
Our students who are prepared for college are not able to get into English classes because too many sections have been cut, but there are empty seats in the many ESL sections offered at Las Positas. And they want us to pass a Parcel Tax, I do not think so.
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Posted by Resident, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood neighborhood, on Sep 21, 2012 at 8:09 am I agree with Kevin, but that is not the only problem. We now have illegals being able to attend college and receive financial aid. Plus the unions: 22 days vacation per year on top of the 23 holidays per year they get? are you kidding me? Plus the article states they have twice as many employees as other similar colleges... time to clean house and stop paying people just to sit around doing nothing.
I plan to vote NO on the measures. Until Brown really tries to reform the unions and pension liabilities, and Califiornia stops giving a free ride to ILLEGALS.... NO MORE TAXES!
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Posted by Daniel Bradford, a member of the Foothill High School community, on Sep 21, 2012 at 2:39 pm Kevin is quoting my comment, which the Pleasanton Weekly editors have removed because I pointed out that this article is plagiarized from a San Francisco Chronicle by Nanette Asimov, and gets several key facts wrong and omits others. I won't bother to repeat my original writing, since it's clear that the Pleasanton Weekly favors plagiarism over originality.
It's an odd choice: people who post anonymously are free to spin lies and half-truths, but people who register and post under their full legal names (like me) get censored by the Pleasanton Weekly staff.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why the Pleasanton Weekly is a joke. Nothing to see here, move along.
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Posted by Cholo, a resident of Livermore, on Sep 24, 2012 at 3:49 pm I think that it's wonderful to be in classroom full of foreign students. Thank you American forgiving a helping hand!
If you don't appreciate "forners" in the USA, then go back to where you ancestors came from.
i mean it!!!
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Posted by Cholo, a resident of Livermore, on Sep 24, 2012 at 3:54 pm Guide to understanding "forners" entering our land: Web Link
The USA will never be able to contain the numbers of anybody arriving in the USA "illegally"...I'm so amused!
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