VGCC Proposes $19M 1999-2000 Budget, Learns Construction Ahead Of Schedule
VGCC BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING: MARCH 15, 1999
NEW TRUSTEE – In the photograph at right, Superior Court Judge Henry W. Hight Jr. administers the oath of office to Marion J. Church of Henderson as a member of the Vance-Granville Community College Board of Trustees on Monday, March 15. The Vance County Board of Commissioners appointed Mrs. Church to replace her late husband, John T. Church Sr., who died Feb. 27. Mrs. Church called her appointment “a great joy and privilege,” and she told the board, “You have my commitment to do the very best I can for this college.”
The Vance-Granville Community College Board of Trustees voted unanimously Monday evening to submit a 1999-2000 budget totaling $19,009,369 to the state for approval.
Consideration of the budget proposal came during the board’s bi-monthly meeting on March 15. The money would cover operating and maintenance expenses, as well as construction projects during the next fiscal year.
About $13 million of the proposed budget would come from state funds, $2.7 million from federal funds, $1.7 million in appropriations from Vance, Granville, Franklin and Warren counties, with the remainder from several other sources, said Budget Committee Chairman John M. Foster.
The college is asking for increased funding from their supporting counties to meet next year’s obligations. The new Franklin Campus will be in operation the entire budget year, and an additional 9,000 square feet is also anticipated to be open half that time. So the college is requesting that Franklin County commissioners allocate an additional $44,717 for the upkeep of that facility.
Likewise, an 8,000 square-foot expansion of South Campus in Granville County is expected to be completed in September, and $22,087 in additional funds is being requested from Granville County to operate that facility.
Additional funding for repairs and equipment replacement is also being requested of Vance and Granville counties. The main campus in Vance County is approaching 25 years of age and, although college officials say it has been well maintained, they have identified about $188,000 that needs to be spent next year. This would pay for the replacement of the roof on one building, replacement of the heating and air conditioning system in one building, and repair of concrete steps. Vance County is being asked to increase its capital outlay funding by $82,092 over the current year, and Granville is being asked for an additional $27,367 for the main campus.
College officials point out that adjustments to the overall budget will probably have to be made after the counties make their appropriations.
CONSTRUCTION UPDATE
Building Committee Chairman J. David Brooks reported that the 9,000 square-foot expansion to South Campus is ahead of schedule, and contractors expect work to be completed in September. Completion of the new classrooms and computer labs was originally slated for December.
Plans for the third and fourth buildings at Franklin Campus are being completed, Brooks said, and will soon be submitted to the construction office of the N.C. Department of Community Colleges for approval. If the schedule holds, bids will be requested in late May, and work could begin in early June.
One 6,800 square-foot building at the Franklin Campus will contain classrooms, a community service center and a biotechnology laboratory, and a 2,300 square-foot building will house a classroom/assembly room.
CURRICULUM, PERSONNEL MATTERS
Upon recommendation of Henrietta H. Clark, chairman of the Curriculum Committee, the board authorized a study of the feasibility of Vance-Granville offering a two-year program in Emergency Medical Science.
President Robert Miller told the board the college already offers extension
courses in facets of EMS training, but several agencies in the area have asked for more in-depth training. Such a program would provide an associate degree for graduates and prepare them to work as paramedics.
After the feasibility study, which will include an interest survey, the state Community College System would have to approve the program.
The board also approved teaching a 36-hour course, How to Start Your Own Business, to inmates at the Federal Correction Institute at Butner. Federal officials requested the course.
The board approved full-time employment of five people to work in the Welfare-to-Work program taken over March 8 by the college. They are Duane A. Townes, Cynthia J. Wilson, Rachael E. Hedrick, Paulette Powell and Allison N. Bowen. Employment of Dana R. Thomas as an assistant instructor in cosmetology was also approved.
The trustees accepted the resignation of LPN program head Faith Smith-Goff and Office Science Technology instructor Lou Ellen Wicker and approved the June 1 retirement of Katherine P. Frazier, who has been a nursing instructor at VGCC about 26 years.
