San Mateo County Community College District

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San Mateo CountyCommunity College District

• 2004-2005
• Skyline
• College Budget Committee

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Questions and Issues

• States decision making process
• Latest news
• Enrollment funding cap
• Are we Basic Aid yet??
• Fold-in of PFE
• State and College funding models

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State District Budget Process

• BCP Task Force
• Consultation Process
• Recommendation from BCP Task Force
• BCP approval of Governing Board on 8/19
• BCP to Department of Finance
• Governors Budget Proposal
• System on-going advocacy
• May Revise
• District Tentative Budget
• June Budget Legislation
• July Budget passed and signed
• District Final Budget

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2004-05 State Budget Parameters

• COLA 2.41
• Growth 3.00 1.66 .65
• Equalization 80 million
• Folding-in of PFE
• Property tax shift 492.6 million
• No mandated cost reimbursement

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2005-06 BCP Budget Parameters

• COLA 2.50
• Growth 4.00
• Equalization 80 million
• Deficit Reduction 46 million
• 500 million v. 389 million in 03-04

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2004-05 Update

• Trailer legislation
• Protects basic aid districts
• Defined as receiving no general apportionment
• Block Grant use for PFE
• Ron, Kathy, Jim
• Working with Chancellors office regarding
  treatment of 2002-03 and 2003-04 enrollment
  funding cap
• County Controller requires answer by December 04
• Collective Bargaining

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Enrollment Funding Cap

• It depends
• We may be over cap
• We may be at cap
• We may be below cap
• Should cap be subject to deficit if district
  receives no general apportionment?
• Should there even be a cap if district receives
  no general apportionment?
• Related impact on Basic Skills, 04-05

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What is an FTES?

• Full Time Equivalent Student
• Measurement of output (service)
• 1 FTES 525 Student Contact Hours
• 1 FTES 1 student in class 15 hours per week for
  35 weeks
• 1 FTES can be made up of many individual students

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What is WSCH?

• Weekly Student Contact Hours
• 1 faculty member teaching a class of 30 students
  for 3 hours a week generates 90 semester WSCH
• A faculty member teaching 30 students 3 hours a
  week for two semesters generates 90 annual WSCH
• 15 WSCH for 35 weeks generates 1 FTES

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What are FLCs?

• Faculty Load Credits are the measurement of a
  full time faculty
• 30 FLCs over 35 weeks is one full time faculty
• Different assignments have different FLCs
• 15 FLCs may or may not represent 15 hours per
  week

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What is FTEF?

• Full Time Equivalent Faculty
• A faculty teaching 15 FLCs per week (30 FLCs for
  2 semesters) generates 1 FTEF
• 1 FTEF can be made up of several individual
  faculty

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What is load?

• Load is a measurement of productivity or
  efficiency
• WSCH/FTEF
• 1 faculty member teaching 35 students 15 hours
  per week for 35 weeks - 30 FLCs - generates 525
  WSCH and has a load of 525 WSCH/FTEF

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District Revenue
PFE Fold-in
Base Revenue Calculation
Apportionment And/or ERAF
Taxes and Fees
Assessed Valuation
2008-09
1998-99
2006-07
2004-05
2005-06
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District Revenue
Taxes and Fees
Assessed Valuation
2008-09
1998-99
2006-07
2004-05
2005-06
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Current College Funding Model

• Based on relative enrollment stability
• Status quo funding
• No ? for marginal changes in FTES
• No ? for marginal changes in WSCH/FTES
• Adjustments based on current percentage of total
  allocation
• Since 85-90 budget is salaries, this changes
  each year based on actual

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Future Funding Model

• Committee on Budget and Finance
• Should we base budget on changing parameters?
• FTES or WSCH per FTES
• Other load measures
• Program mix
• Special needs
• Recalculate the whole each year?
• Recalculate the margin?
• New State Funding Model
• Parameters and Impact on District

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Long-term Strategy

• Collective Bargaining
• Work toward financial
• Stability
• Predictability
• Anticipation of influential parameters
• Planningahead of time
• Prepare for BIG changes in facility needs
• Property taxes, property taxes property
  taxes v.
• FTES, FTES, FTES

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