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COAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT TO GET SOME INSTRUCTIONAL EQUIPMENT AND MAINTENANCE FUNDING AFTER GOVERNOR SIGNS REDUCED RESTORATION BILL
District will receive $1 million of $3 million originally budgeted
The Coast Community College District applauded Governor Gray Davis' move this week to restore some of the funding he had cut from the community college system budget in June. The Governor signed the community college funding restoration bill, SB 735, late Sunday night, but approved only $32 million of the $98 million in instructional equipment and scheduled maintenance funding cut from the FY 2001-02 State Budget. He also approved $14.9 million in funding for capital outlay projects for the
system.
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CONTACT:
Erin Cohn
Public Affairs Director
(714) 438-4605
October 17, 2001
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
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"We appreciate the Governor's move to restore some of this important funding, even as we face a growing shortfall in state revenues and difficult economic times," said Coast Community College District Board of Trustees President Armando R. Ruiz. "Support for the community college system was vital this year, and will be even more vital next year. In a slow economy, Californians flock to their community colleges to develop and update their job skills. We will need our full funding next year to provide the services and educational opportunities those students will need."
"Community colleges are the engine the California economy will need to get moving in the right direction again," Ruiz added.
Cuts to the state community college system budget this year mean the Coast Community College District's three colleges will receive approximately $1 million for instructional equipment and scheduled maintenance projects in 2001-02 - about $2 million less than originally budgeted.
The Coast Community College District is the seventh largest community college district in the nation in credit enrollment, serving 55,000 students each semester. The
District is comprised of Coastline Community College headquartered in Fountain Valley, Golden West College in Huntington Beach, Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, and KOCE-TV, the
District's public broadcasting station.
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