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The college's full Board of Education is scheduled to vote on the proposal at its meeting Wednesday. LCC administrators say the plan is needed to increase the college’s ending fund balance to the level required by policy.
This story clarifies the official title of the Lane Community College Board of Education’s ad hoc committee.
An ad hoc committee of the Lane Community College Board of Education is recommending the full board approve a plan proposed by college administrators to cut spending by $8 million over the next three years.
The board is scheduled to meet Wednesday, Jan. 7, at 6 p.m. in the boardroom in Building 3 on LCC’s campus, 4000 E. 30th Ave. The agenda for Wednesday’s meeting includes a board vote on the plan, which is intended in part to boost the college’s reserves — known as its ending fund balance — to the level required by board policy.
The ad hoc committee, chaired by board member Zachary Mulholland, forwarded a four-page report on its findings at the end of its meeting Tuesday — the third meeting it held to gather information and ask questions about the plan. Board Chair Austin Fölnagy and Vice Chair Jerry Rust were the other members of the subcommittee.
The ad hoc committee’s motion to approve the plan calls for annual updates to be approved by the full board and regular reports on progress.
The three-year plan
Board policy calls for an ending fund balance amounting to 10% of LCC’s general fund. LCC’s projected general fund for the current school year is about $108.1 million, and the projected ending fund balance is 7.45% of that.
Without making cuts of $3 million from its 2026-27 budget and $2.5 million in each of the two following years, LCC financial officials have said the ending fund balance would drop to 5.03% by the end of fiscal year 2029.
LCC officials have not yet identified areas to cut, which concerned some board members at previous meetings. But administrators have said the board will see a list of prospective cuts this spring as the budgeting process formally begins.
The plan also says making those budget cuts would free money for “strategic investments,” including eliminating deficits in areas such as LCC’s aviation program, developing new programs and funding deferred maintenance and information technology projects.
Those investments attracted much of the ad hoc committee’s attention, and its recommended motion to the board calls for “spending decisions to be guided by plans due this spring for the aviation program and deferred-maintenance needs.”
The recommended motion also calls for those decisions to be made through the college’s “normal budgeting process including shared governance.”
The recommended motion also calls for the board to “rededicate” savings from the plan to:
- Maintain the ending fund balance at a level above 10%.
- Fund deferred maintenance.
- Reduce tuition and fees to make LCC “more affordable relative to peers.”
The board’s Wednesday meeting will be livestreamed on its “Live College Events” webpage and its YouTube channel.
