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CCCC trustees approve budget, welcome new president

10.30.2008 • Admin, Faculty & Staff, Finances

LILLINGTON – Central Carolina Community College is feeling the impact of the tight state budget as the state demands a reversion – give back – of part of the college’s 2008-09 funding appropriation.

Reversions have been a fact of life for state-funded institutions for years, but it is hitting particularly hard this year. According to Wayne Robinson, Central Carolina C.C.’s vice president of administrative services, the state’s fiscal year 2008-09 appropriation to the college of $28.8 million is only a few hundred more dollars than last year’s appropriation.

In spite of that, the state is requiring a 2 percent reversion, a return of $490,000. The college expects the state to require an additional 1 percent reversion as early as November of this year. With the reversion, the state funding has decreased even as the student population has grown by about 6 percent.

The college also receives funding from Chatham, Harnett and Lee counties, which it serves. For the 2008-09 fiscal year, it will receive a total of about $3.3 million from them.

The board approved the budget reversion to the state. Of the amount, $250,000 will come from curriculum instruction funds; $198,000 from non-instructional; and $42,000 from general administration.

“Despite the reversion, the trustees made it clear that we will do whatever it takes to maintain the quality and integrity of our programs,” college President T. Eston Marchant III said after the meeting.

Oct. 22 was Marchant’s first trustees’ meeting since assuming the presidency of the college on Aug. 15. The trustees welcomed him.

“We are very pleased to have you as our new president,” Bobby Powell, chairman of the board, said to Marchant. “Everyone has been very complimentary of our choice.”

In response, Marchant said, “I am thrilled to be here and I am looking forward to working with you. During my interview with you, you told me that the college was a wonderful place to work with great employees and that this area is a great place to live. You did not tell me how universally loved and appreciated this college is in this area. I haven’t been any place since assuming the presidency where the college hasn’t come in for praise, and I give you trustees credit for this direction.”

Among the business at the meeting were the following items:

The board’s winter meeting will take place Feb. 11, 2009, on the Lee County Campus.


CCCC trustees approve budget, welcome new president

The Central Carolina Community College Board of Trustees met for its fall meeting Oct. 22 at the college’s Harnett County Campus in Lillington. The college serves Chatham, Harnett and Lee counties and each of the counties is represented on the board. Members of the 2008-09 board are (front row, from left) Jan Hayes, of Lee County; SGA Student Representative Annick Joseph, of Wake County; Chairman L.W. (Bobby) Powell, of Lee County; Vice Chairman Patrick Barnes, of Chatham County; and John Daniel III, of Lee County; (second row, from left) Ed Garrison, of Lee County; Dr. Tracy Hanner, of Chatham County; and Frances Warner, R.V. Hight, Douglas H. Wilkinson Jr., and Julian Philpott, all of Lee County; (third row, from left) L. Frank Stewart, of Harnett County; John T. Bonardi Jr., of Lee County; Clem Medley, of Harnett County; William T. Wilson Jr., of Lee County; Tim McNeill, of Harnett County; Tony G. Lett and CCCC President T. Eston Marchant III, both of Lee County. Marchant was attending his first board meeting as president. He officially took over from former president Dr. Matt Garrett on Aug. 15. Bonardi is new to the board this year. The Lee County Board of Commissioners has reappointed Garrison for another four-year term and Gov. Mike Easley has reappointed Powell for another four-year term.