BLINN TRUSTEES TO APPROVE 2017-2018 FISCAL BUDGET IN TUESDAY’S MEETING
The Blinn Board of Trustees have listed the adoption of their 2017-2018 fiscal year budget on the agenda for
Tuesday’s meeting, along with multiple reports and policy updates.
Blinn trustees held their budget workshop June 12th where they discussed a proposed operating budget of just over $98-million. The budget is a 3.3% increase over the previous year.
The revenue is also expected to rise, with a 4.5% increase over this past year, coming in at $112.6-million according to estimations on tuitions and fees, state appropriations, and local taxes.
There will be a number of policies being submitted for updated approval, including Students Conduct with Weapons, Community Use of College District Facilities and the Conduct of the Premises, and Curriculum Design for Degrees and Certificates.
The Trustees will also adopt a resolution recognizing the 150th Anniversary of the Brenham Fire Department.
They will give authorization to administration to execute contracts for furniture, concession equipment, and fitness equipment for the new Kruse Center.
The meeting will be Tuesday at 6pm in the third floor board room of the administration building at 802 Green St in Brenham.
Expenses at $98 million+ with revenue projected at $112.6 million. So why is the excess $13,000,000,000 pot of money not going back to the property tax payers who have been giving Blinn money for decades???
At least a tax rate cut is in order but nothing mentioned here, maybe even discounted tuition for property tax payers that subsidize all of the out of town students, including illegal aliens going to the school.
Or maybe Blinn is a for profit in reality. Are these Blinn Trustees not elected? Seems to be the typical actions of clueless and likely liberal local elected officials that are not interested in the people that elected them. Brenham needs an entirely new set of officials for Blinn and its public school board badly.
Revenue comes from $1.8 million in property tax, $67.7 million projected from tuition and fees and $23.6-million dollars from state appropriations. With all this money Blinn makes, why is the property tax owner penalized with a tax in the first place?
“Expenses include a 3-percent across-the-board pay increase for all full-time faculty and staff.”
CPI Inflation is about 2.2% this year, meantime part-time faculty and staff get nothing. And I always thought academics (the Blinn Trustees in this case) were generally egalitarian.