SLCC Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes, June 25, 2009 - St. Louis ...

2009-2010 Expansion/Reallocation Funding
The 2009-2010 general operating budget contains limited expansion proposals that are achieved
through the reallocation of existing personnel and operating funds and through very limited
expansion dollars available from local tax and maintenance fee increases. The highest priority
expansion funding proposals are highlighted below:
Annual Salary and Benefits Adjustments: The first priority in the 2010 operating budget was
funding the 4 percent salary increase and funding the benefit programs. The College continues
to effectively manage the medical insurance program and has received a minimal premium
increase in 2010. PSRS continues to increase at the rate of one-half percent per year.
Pay rate increase $2,900,000
Benefit rate increase $ 800,000
Fixed Cost Adjustments: In addition to compensation adjustments, the College seeks to fund
other fixed cost increases that are necessitated by the ongoing cost of business. These
adjustments include technology maintenance costs, insurance and legal fees. As a cost reduction
initiative, Human Resources is expanding the staffing plan to provide for a temporary, part-time
legal consultant to control external legal fees.
Maintenance Contracts $ 156,690
Insurance and Legal Fees $ 210,000
Temporary Legal Assistance $ 40,000
Continuing Education: The College completed the year-long review of continuing education
resulting in the integration of continuing education with Workforce and Community
Development. This realignment and restructuring resulted in the streamlining of campus-based
staffing and the development of a central staffing initiative to address program planning,
marketing, and operations. The new staffing pattern includes the addition of a districtwide
director in place of the current dean-level leadership of the campus-based operations. No new
funding is requested and this realignment actually yielded a savings.
Centers for Teaching and Learning: FY 2010 will provide the opportunity to formally
organize around the CTL concept through the reclassification of the Forest Park manager of
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