Vice President of Business Services Jennifer Clack will provide an update from the District Council on Administrative Services (DCAS) and the budget.

Questions for VP:

I think it would be a good idea to have Jennifer speak about the overall Joint Analysis of the California budget, if possible.
It would also be helpful to have an explanation on full-time faculty obligation.
Education Code Section 87482.6 recognizes the goal of the Board of Governors that 75% of the hours of credit instruction in the California Community Colleges should be taught by full -time faculty. Each district has a baseline reflecting the number of full -time faculty in 1988-89. Each year, if the Board of Governors determines that adequate funds exist in the budget, districts are required to increase their base number of full -time faculty over the prior year in proportion to the amount of growth in funded credit full -time equivalent students. Funded credit FTES includes emergency conditions allowance protections, such as those approved for fires and f or the COVID -19 pandemic. Districts with emergency conditions allowance s approved per regulation will not have their full-time faculty obligation reduced for actual reported FTES declines while the protection is in place. The target number of faculty is called the Faculty Obligation Number (FON). An additional increase to the FON is required when the budget inc ludes funds specifically for the purposes of increasing the full -time faculty percentage.

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