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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by Erica Perez and Kendall Taggart, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/state%E2%80%99s-community-colleges-spend-millions-duplicative-administrators-4278\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s 72 community college districts spend tens of millions of dollars on administrative positions that could be consolidated or shared by districts a short drive away, a California Watch analysis has found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91638\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 266px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/18/states-community-colleges-spend-millions-on-duplicative-administrators/richard-raasueld-at-copper-mountain-college-by-carolos-puma-cal-watch/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-91638\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-91638\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Richard-Raasueld-at-Copper-Mountain-College-by-Carolos-Puma-Cal-Watch.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Raasueld studies at Copper Mountain College in Joshua Tree. (Carlos Puma/California Watch)\" width=\"266\" height=\"183\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Raasueld studies at Copper Mountain College in Joshua Tree. (Carlos Puma/California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the wake of huge budget shortfalls, California’s vast community college system has reduced its core academic functions – slashing millions of dollars by eliminating nearly a quarter of class sections, cutting services and laying off employees. At the start of the fall 2012 semester, more than 470,000 students \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/618107-press-release.html\" target=\"_blank\">had been waitlisted for classes\u003c/a> at community colleges statewide. But millions of dollars still are spent on duplicative administrative costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half of the state’s community college districts are within 20 miles of another district. And the vast majority of those districts have a single college. If these districts shared administrators, they potentially could shave millions off their expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the Riverside, Mt. San Jacinto and Desert community college districts, all in Riverside County. Together, they operate five colleges with three chancellor’s offices, three human resources departments, three finance offices, three facilities departments and three academic affairs offices, not to mention three boards of trustees.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost of employing the 15 executives who lead these departments, plus one or two support staff for each, totals nearly $6 million. The cost of running the three boards, including elections, legal support, stipends, benefits, support staff and travel expenses, equals nearly $1.7 million, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91642\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 225px\">\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/infographic-look-administrative-costs-across-community-colleges-4281\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-91642\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-91642 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/community-college-infographic.jpg\" alt=\"Infographic: A look at administrative costs across community colleges (California Watch)\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Infographic: A look at administrative costs across community colleges. Click on this image for details. (California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The three districts employed more than 130 executives in total in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the three districts could consolidate and whittle their bureaucracies down to one chancellor, one board and one head of each big administrative office, the savings would total $4.9 million – money that could, for example, pay for 960 additional class sections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riverside Community College District Chancellor Gregory Gray believes the savings could be even bigger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this one district alone, you could easily save $5, $6, $7 million,” he said. “Multiply that up and down the state and you get a big number.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether the system should consider merging some districts to save money, Gray didn’t hesitate. “Without a doubt and unquestionably, the answer to that is we should do that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could look at those facts, take note of the state’s revenue challenges and wonder why lawmakers aren’t already ordering cuts, mergers and cost savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But first you’d need a lesson on the way things operate in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is extremely difficult for a local chancellor like myself to try and initiate this type of discussion unless it’s really starting from the top,” said Gray, noting that no one in the state Capitol is championing consolidation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many of the community college districts, the potential savings may never be realized because the system of local districts is so deeply entrenched. In fact, obscure statutes in the California Education Code make it all but impossible to save money through merging districts – at least in the short run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students have borne the brunt of cuts to the system. They have been slapped with fees that have risen 130 percent in the past five years and have been unable to get into the classes they need. But the status quo has been protected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91639\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/18/states-community-colleges-spend-millions-on-duplicative-administrators/riverside-community-college-dist-chancellor-gregory-gray-by-carolos-puma-cal-watch/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-91639\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-91639 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Riverside-Community-College-Dist-Chancellor-Gregory-Gray-by-Carolos-Puma-Cal-Watch.jpg\" alt=\"Riverside Community College District Chancellor Gregory Gray (Carlos Puma/California Watch)\" width=\"328\" height=\"218\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riverside Community College District Chancellor Gregory Gray (Carlos Puma/California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The state’s community college system isn’t the only place in California’s $92 billion budget where excess can be found. California Watch chose to zero in on the college system because of its sheer size and because it touches so many lives. Some 2.4 million students attend community college classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s community college system is the largest in the nation and the backbone of higher education in the state, serving the vast majority of the state’s college students at the lowest price with the greatest number of locations. The system is especially essential now, as President Barack Obama has pushed for greater resources for community colleges to shore up the country’s workforce through job training and education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Watch reporters examined parts of the state community college system’s bureaucracy to identify spending patterns and understand why reforms may prove elusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 72 districts keep payroll and other data in different formats, which makes comparison difficult. So California Watch drilled down on 16 districts, taking into consideration the availability of detailed payroll data, geographic proximity and district size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group of 16 districts had duplicative executives or managers in 21 positions, not including chancellors and presidents. A total of 253 individuals cost the districts $30 million in salaries and at least $7.9 million in benefits in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A broader analysis of the system revealed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The state Education Code prevents districts from laying off any administrators for the first two years after merging, making it more difficult for districts to save money by consolidating.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The public appears open to change. California Watch commissioned a Field Poll that found an overwhelming majority favors consolidating community college administrative functions to save money.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>As the ranks of elected community college trustees have swollen, their power and profile have diminished. The state pays for 442 community college district trustees, including an average annual cost of $5 million for elections. But the authority of these elected board members weakened significantly 35 years ago when voters approved Proposition 13, which transferred control over revenues from the boards of trustees to the state.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Field Poll conducted in the fall for California Watch found that the majority of respondents had little or no knowledge about district board elections.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Unlike the centrally managed systems for the California State University and University of California, community colleges sprouted up largely as extensions of high school districts. That helps explain why they’re organized into 72 locally governed bodies dotting the California terrain – each with its own bureaucracy\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>Read more on this issue:\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/state%E2%80%99s-community-colleges-spend-millions-duplicative-administrators-4278\">State’s community colleges spend millions on duplicative administrators\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/blog/post/community-college-boards-lose-power-stature-system-changes-4275\">Community college boards lose power, stature as system changes\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/blog/post/how-we-analyzed-community-colleges%E2%80%99-administrative-costs-4274\">How we analyzed community colleges’ administrative costs \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\u003c/aside>\n\n\n\u003cp>In 2010, community colleges reported spending at least $1.7 billion on top-level administration, including pay for district executives and the cost of the 72 separate governing boards, according to a California Watch analysis of U.S. Department of Education data. The total cost of the system that year topped $10 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the 72 districts don’t all report administrative spending to the federal government in the same way. That makes it difficult to compare how much each district spends on bureaucracy or to compare the community college system to other higher education systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Riverside Community College District, for example, included $3.5 million in state money it spent on enterprises such as parking and student activities. The Long Beach Community College District did not include that category of expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chairman of the Assembly Higher Education Committee, Das Williams, D-Santa Barbara, said the state should consider district consolidation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no question that there (are) more individual districts than is efficient and, in many cases, the efficiencies that can be gained would mean more classes for students,” Williams said. “And that’s really the tragedy of the system, is the lack of funding and the lack of reform.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, while lawmakers can encourage a statewide examination into the costs and benefits of district unification – through studies and hearings – Williams said local leaders ultimately need to sign on to make such a move successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Creating a new district\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To see how much cost a district structure can add, consider how much California paid when it built one from scratch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seeds of Copper Mountain College in the High Desert took root in 1967, when the Desert Community College District in Palm Desert began offering college classes at local schools in the Morongo Basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community leaders in the area began to envision having their own full-fledged college. In 1970, the district bought land on the side of Copper Mountain in Joshua Tree with the idea of eventually building a campus there. And in 1977, voters elected the first Morongo Basin resident to the district board of trustees. Virnita McDonald advocated for a college at Copper Mountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new foundation, the Friends of Copper Mountain College, began raising money for a building campaign. Its success \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/618112-cmc-master-plan-2007-2011.html\" target=\"_blank\">led to the opening of the Copper Mountain campus\u003c/a> in 1984.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, college leaders wanted independence from the Palm Desert district. They argued that their campus wasn’t getting its fair share of resources. They believed the district should have built the Copper Mountain campus sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We felt that we were significantly different from the Palm Desert community,” said Owen Gillick, who has been involved with Copper Mountain College since 1975 and recently retired from the district’s board of trustees. “We felt that even having one of five trustees residing here did not give … us the control over our destiny that we felt we deserved to have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frustrated by what it saw as a lack of action by district leaders, the Friends of Copper Mountain College \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/618118-feb-1998-dccd-meeting.html\" target=\"_blank\">met with Republican state Sen. Jim Brulte\u003c/a> in 1998, hoping for a political solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brulte agreed to tackle the issue. \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/97-98/bill/sen/sb_1651-1700/sb_1665_bill_19980217_introduced.html\" target=\"_blank\">A bill he introduced\u003c/a> authorized a new, separately funded district – without needing the approval of voters in Palm Desert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Wolf, then the executive director of the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, said in an interview that he was uncomfortable with the creation of a district of that size in that location because of obvious fiscal limitations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91640\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/18/states-community-colleges-spend-millions-on-duplicative-administrators/copper-mountain-college-bell-center-by-carolos-puma-cal-watch/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-91640\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-91640 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Copper-Mountain-College-Bell-Center-by-Carolos-Puma-Cal-Watch.jpg\" alt=\" Copper Mountain College’s Bell Center, a 40,000-square-foot multiuse facility.(Carlos Puma/California Watch) \" width=\"328\" height=\"218\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Copper Mountain College’s Bell Center, a 40,000-square-foot multiuse facility.\u003cbr>(Carlos Puma/California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thomas Nussbaum, chancellor of the community college system at the time, also said he had concerns – not only about the extra cost, but also about the circumvention of the standard process for forming a district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the involvement of a powerful legislator made the move inevitable, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brulte “had already made up his mind on the subject and probably had the ability to pass whatever legislation he wanted to pass,” Nussbaum said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1999, the bill became law. Almost overnight, the region went from having one college and one district to two colleges and two districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the new designation came new trappings. The district created two new jobs that mirrored positions at Palm Desert’s College of the Desert: a chief human resources officer and a chief business officer. Copper Mountain also hired a director of fiscal services, promoted the provost to CEO and promoted a professor to a position as chief instructional officer. A new local board was elected. State budgets provided $3 million in the first two years to foot the bill for the transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 1998, before the secession, to 2002, four years after the split, the cost of top-level administration for College of the Desert and Copper Mountain College doubled, growing at twice the rate of the system as a whole. Copper Mountain currently has nine administrators and faculty who make more than $100,000 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both districts are among California’s smallest. The Desert Community College District enrolls roughly 13,000 students. Copper Mountain, the spinoff, is the second-tiniest district in the state, with 3,000 students enrolled last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiny districts are, by nature, inefficient. In fact, their fixed costs are so high that the state funding formula adds on extra money for them. As a result, per-student funding at Copper Mountain in 2010 was about $8,200 – more than 40 percent higher than the state average of $5,700.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve got to have a board, they’ve got to have a basic campus, they’ve got to have a basic administration, they’ve got to have a basic faculty even if their class size is very small,” Wolf said. “So why would you create something like this … when there’s 55 miles away a great big campus that provides everything?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gillick did not dispute that forming a new small district entailed significant costs. But he said consolidating Copper Mountain with a neighboring district would be an “unsuccessful implant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These small things (districts) are costly, but they have a value that can’t be measured in bucks,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brulte, now the California Republican Party chairman, said there was no requirement in the law that the new district add more administrators. The move had a positive impact in the area, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, additional resources went to Copper Mountain, and it eliminated a tremendous source of conflict within the Morongo Basin,” he said. “The people of the Morongo Basin got to have control of the college district in their community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Overlapping roles\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you look at a map of California’s community college districts, the dots tend to cluster. More than half of the districts are within 20 miles of at least one other community college district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each district comes with a cadre of highly compensated executives who do the same thing as their counterpart with the same title at a district 10 or 15 miles away. In theory, geographically close districts could share a vice president of human resources or a chief business officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how much could be cut, but the community college system spends at least 17 cents of every dollar on top-level administrative costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Watch analyzed payroll data for 16 districts. Combined, the districts – a mix of small and larger ones – had 18 directors of public relations, 21 directors of campus facilities and 12 institutional research chiefs. Not including the district superintendents or college presidents, the districts had some level of overlap in 21 executive or management positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, colleges have dealt with budget cuts by cutting classes. Before last year’s passage of Proposition 30, which temporarily increases income and sales taxes to fund education, funding for community colleges had decreased by $809 million, or 12 percent, since 2008-09.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that time period, the number of students served sunk by nearly half a million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/618124-pr-budgetimpactsurveyquestions-082812-final.html\" target=\"_blank\">an August 2012 survey\u003c/a> conducted by the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, 66 of 78 colleges that responded reported having waitlists for fall classes. On average, there were 7,157 students waitlisted per college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley City College student Clay Smith, 22, witnessed the effects of reduced class offerings firsthand. Last semester was the most hectic he’d ever seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were at least 10 kids standing in every class,” Smith said. “There’s people on the floor and in the hall. … I made sure to get to class 20 minutes early so I knew I had a seat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith needs one more business class to meet the requirements to transfer to a UC school. But he never thought it would take him three years to get here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had no clue,” Smith said. “I didn’t think it was going to take this long of a journey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Obstacles to consolidation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Education Code makes it all but impossible for districts to achieve cost savings right away by merging operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the Napa Valley, Solano and Contra Costa community college districts, which together oversee five colleges. The district offices are within 15 to 25 miles of each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combined, they serve about 81,000 students – fewer than at City College of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you look at them together, Napa Valley, Solano and Contra Costa had three chief business officers, five directors of campus facilities, three athletic directors and three public relations chiefs in 2011. They also had two directors of information technology, chief financial aid officers and vice presidents of student success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were 12 key executive or administrative positions that clearly overlapped across all three districts and two other positions duplicated in 2 out of 3 districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salaries and benefits for these 43 people totaled roughly $6.4 million. The districts employed more than 150 executives in total in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some district officials questioned whether a district spanning three counties would reduce colleges’ ability to respond to local business needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timothy Leong, spokesman for the Contra Costa Community College District, said that while his district sees jobs in the energy sector, Napa may see more in the agricultural or wine industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Community colleges in those respective areas work closely with the businesses in order to meet those educational needs for their future workforce,” Leong said. “The question becomes, by proposed consolidation … will you be able to still meet the business needs and training needs for your students in the same way?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yulian Ligioso, vice president of finance and administration for Solano Community College, said a merger would entail many additional costs. For example, the districts would have to standardize their curriculums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While on the surface, I think it’s certainly not something you cannot do, there are many obstacles you’d have to address in trying to merge the institutions,” Ligioso said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The districts have not discussed merging, but even if they did, they wouldn’t be able to immediately reduce duplicative positions. California’s Education Code \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/618120-california-education-code-sec-88018.html\" target=\"_blank\">prohibits districts from laying off nonacademic employees\u003c/a> for two years following a merger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That protection originates from a 1961 bill sponsored by the California School Employees Association, which ensured a year of job security for nonacademic employees after a merger. The union sponsored another bill in 1970 that pushed the protection to two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before a merger could be approved, a litany of other financial, legal and political hurdles would stand in the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several groups must sign off on the deal, including the community college system’s Board of Governors, a committee of K-12 school officials in every affected county and the merging districts’ boards of trustees – who which would be voting on whether to eliminate their own positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91641\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/18/states-community-colleges-spend-millions-on-duplicative-administrators/berkeley-city-college-student-clay-smith-by-michael-short-cal-watch/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-91641\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-91641 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Berkeley-City-College-student-Clay-Smith-by-Michael-Short-cal-watch.jpg\" alt=\"Berkeley City College student Clay Smith (Michael Short/California Watch)\" width=\"328\" height=\"218\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley City College student Clay Smith (Michael Short/California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Voters in every affected county would have to approve the merger at the polls, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The colleges, meanwhile, would have to get approval from the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges. They would have to show that they could maintain the same quality of instruction and student support. The process entails legal review and a fee of $20,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new district also would have to sort out multiple collective bargaining agreements, each with its own salary schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill McGinnis, a trustee at the Butte-Glenn Community College District in Oroville, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/618122-mcginnis-report.html\" target=\"_blank\">took a deeper look\u003c/a> at these laws and regulations in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very complicated process and a very costly process,” McGinnis said. “There’s no cost savings for at least two years. In order to make it work, you’d definitely need to have changes in the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not to say districts that currently operate multiple colleges are more efficient than single-college districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Watch looked at three years of administrator-to-student ratios for each district. While the ratios varied, no clear pattern emerged that would explain why some districts had lots of administrators per student and others had very few. Districts with multiple colleges, for example, were no more likely than single-college districts to have a low administrator-to-student ratio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many community college officials point to this fact when they caution against merging districts. They often cite the state’s largest district, the nine-college, 230,000-student Los Angeles Community College District, as a highly bureaucratic organization they do not want to emulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mergers would be rather complicated legally, and we would have to be convinced that such mergers would bring about savings,” said Jack Scott, former chancellor of the California Community Colleges. “Unfortunately, there’s not evidence that (multicollege districts) operate more efficiently than some of the surrounding districts that are one-college districts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Small districts consider collaboration\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the state’s small districts are in precarious financial straits because budget cuts are making it increasingly difficult to support the administrative costs of running a district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When statewide budget cuts hit, community colleges get lower enrollment targets – meaning fewer classes and student services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But districts can scale down instructional and support services more easily than they can adjust the cost of administrative services such as payroll, accounting, information technology and institutional research, said Yuba Community College District Chancellor Doug Houston. That means courses and educational services end up on the chopping block first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re making the cuts by reducing our core academic functions, and we’re kind of chipping away at the margins of being more efficient with those noncore functions,” Houston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal and political obstacles involved in merging districts have stopped districts from getting past the most preliminary discussions about consolidating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houston stops short of advocating that small districts should merge to save money. He’s concerned that moving a district administration farther away would take something away from those communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he has been working with a group of mostly small rural college districts to explore ways to share some of these administrative services, such as payroll services or server farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group includes the Mendocino-Lake, Siskiyou Joint, Shasta-Tehama-Trinity Joint, Lassen, Feather River, Lake Tahoe, Monterey Peninsula\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> Butte-Glenn and Yuba districts in Northern California, plus the Copper Mountain, Barstow and Palo Verde college districts in the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My fear is that for these smaller colleges that they’re already on the precipice, and that another round of cuts will put them in extreme jeopardy,” Houston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group does not yet have an estimate of the potential savings districts could achieve. At Houston’s former district, the 5,000-student Lassen Community College District in Susanville, he estimated administrative costs made up 21 percent of the budget. He figures at least a quarter of that could be shaved through collaboration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houston and Kindred Murillo, president of the Lake Tahoe Community College District, are talking about sharing one or more senior administrators in the future, even though the two district offices are 145 miles apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The districts’ immediate financial woes are only the short-term context for the push toward collaboration, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bigger context is that the paying public, quite legitimately, is skeptical as to how efficient we have been in public services and is demanding greater efficiency,” Houston said. “And I think legitimately so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Watch reporter Kendall Taggart contributed to this story. This story was edited by Mark Katches. It was copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>by Erica Perez and Kendall Taggart, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/state%E2%80%99s-community-colleges-spend-millions-duplicative-administrators-4278\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s 72 community college districts spend tens of millions of dollars on administrative positions that could be consolidated or shared by districts a short drive away, a California Watch analysis has found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91638\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 266px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/18/states-community-colleges-spend-millions-on-duplicative-administrators/richard-raasueld-at-copper-mountain-college-by-carolos-puma-cal-watch/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-91638\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-91638\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Richard-Raasueld-at-Copper-Mountain-College-by-Carolos-Puma-Cal-Watch.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Raasueld studies at Copper Mountain College in Joshua Tree. (Carlos Puma/California Watch)\" width=\"266\" height=\"183\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Raasueld studies at Copper Mountain College in Joshua Tree. (Carlos Puma/California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the wake of huge budget shortfalls, California’s vast community college system has reduced its core academic functions – slashing millions of dollars by eliminating nearly a quarter of class sections, cutting services and laying off employees. At the start of the fall 2012 semester, more than 470,000 students \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/618107-press-release.html\" target=\"_blank\">had been waitlisted for classes\u003c/a> at community colleges statewide. But millions of dollars still are spent on duplicative administrative costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half of the state’s community college districts are within 20 miles of another district. And the vast majority of those districts have a single college. If these districts shared administrators, they potentially could shave millions off their expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the Riverside, Mt. San Jacinto and Desert community college districts, all in Riverside County. Together, they operate five colleges with three chancellor’s offices, three human resources departments, three finance offices, three facilities departments and three academic affairs offices, not to mention three boards of trustees.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost of employing the 15 executives who lead these departments, plus one or two support staff for each, totals nearly $6 million. The cost of running the three boards, including elections, legal support, stipends, benefits, support staff and travel expenses, equals nearly $1.7 million, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91642\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 225px\">\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/infographic-look-administrative-costs-across-community-colleges-4281\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-91642\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-91642 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/community-college-infographic.jpg\" alt=\"Infographic: A look at administrative costs across community colleges (California Watch)\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Infographic: A look at administrative costs across community colleges. Click on this image for details. (California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The three districts employed more than 130 executives in total in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the three districts could consolidate and whittle their bureaucracies down to one chancellor, one board and one head of each big administrative office, the savings would total $4.9 million – money that could, for example, pay for 960 additional class sections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riverside Community College District Chancellor Gregory Gray believes the savings could be even bigger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this one district alone, you could easily save $5, $6, $7 million,” he said. “Multiply that up and down the state and you get a big number.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether the system should consider merging some districts to save money, Gray didn’t hesitate. “Without a doubt and unquestionably, the answer to that is we should do that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could look at those facts, take note of the state’s revenue challenges and wonder why lawmakers aren’t already ordering cuts, mergers and cost savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But first you’d need a lesson on the way things operate in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is extremely difficult for a local chancellor like myself to try and initiate this type of discussion unless it’s really starting from the top,” said Gray, noting that no one in the state Capitol is championing consolidation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many of the community college districts, the potential savings may never be realized because the system of local districts is so deeply entrenched. In fact, obscure statutes in the California Education Code make it all but impossible to save money through merging districts – at least in the short run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students have borne the brunt of cuts to the system. They have been slapped with fees that have risen 130 percent in the past five years and have been unable to get into the classes they need. But the status quo has been protected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91639\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/18/states-community-colleges-spend-millions-on-duplicative-administrators/riverside-community-college-dist-chancellor-gregory-gray-by-carolos-puma-cal-watch/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-91639\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-91639 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Riverside-Community-College-Dist-Chancellor-Gregory-Gray-by-Carolos-Puma-Cal-Watch.jpg\" alt=\"Riverside Community College District Chancellor Gregory Gray (Carlos Puma/California Watch)\" width=\"328\" height=\"218\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riverside Community College District Chancellor Gregory Gray (Carlos Puma/California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The state’s community college system isn’t the only place in California’s $92 billion budget where excess can be found. California Watch chose to zero in on the college system because of its sheer size and because it touches so many lives. Some 2.4 million students attend community college classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s community college system is the largest in the nation and the backbone of higher education in the state, serving the vast majority of the state’s college students at the lowest price with the greatest number of locations. The system is especially essential now, as President Barack Obama has pushed for greater resources for community colleges to shore up the country’s workforce through job training and education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Watch reporters examined parts of the state community college system’s bureaucracy to identify spending patterns and understand why reforms may prove elusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 72 districts keep payroll and other data in different formats, which makes comparison difficult. So California Watch drilled down on 16 districts, taking into consideration the availability of detailed payroll data, geographic proximity and district size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group of 16 districts had duplicative executives or managers in 21 positions, not including chancellors and presidents. A total of 253 individuals cost the districts $30 million in salaries and at least $7.9 million in benefits in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A broader analysis of the system revealed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The state Education Code prevents districts from laying off any administrators for the first two years after merging, making it more difficult for districts to save money by consolidating.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The public appears open to change. California Watch commissioned a Field Poll that found an overwhelming majority favors consolidating community college administrative functions to save money.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>As the ranks of elected community college trustees have swollen, their power and profile have diminished. The state pays for 442 community college district trustees, including an average annual cost of $5 million for elections. But the authority of these elected board members weakened significantly 35 years ago when voters approved Proposition 13, which transferred control over revenues from the boards of trustees to the state.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Field Poll conducted in the fall for California Watch found that the majority of respondents had little or no knowledge about district board elections.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Unlike the centrally managed systems for the California State University and University of California, community colleges sprouted up largely as extensions of high school districts. That helps explain why they’re organized into 72 locally governed bodies dotting the California terrain – each with its own bureaucracy\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>Read more on this issue:\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/state%E2%80%99s-community-colleges-spend-millions-duplicative-administrators-4278\">State’s community colleges spend millions on duplicative administrators\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/blog/post/community-college-boards-lose-power-stature-system-changes-4275\">Community college boards lose power, stature as system changes\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/blog/post/how-we-analyzed-community-colleges%E2%80%99-administrative-costs-4274\">How we analyzed community colleges’ administrative costs \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\u003c/aside>\n\n\n\u003cp>In 2010, community colleges reported spending at least $1.7 billion on top-level administration, including pay for district executives and the cost of the 72 separate governing boards, according to a California Watch analysis of U.S. Department of Education data. The total cost of the system that year topped $10 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the 72 districts don’t all report administrative spending to the federal government in the same way. That makes it difficult to compare how much each district spends on bureaucracy or to compare the community college system to other higher education systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Riverside Community College District, for example, included $3.5 million in state money it spent on enterprises such as parking and student activities. The Long Beach Community College District did not include that category of expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chairman of the Assembly Higher Education Committee, Das Williams, D-Santa Barbara, said the state should consider district consolidation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no question that there (are) more individual districts than is efficient and, in many cases, the efficiencies that can be gained would mean more classes for students,” Williams said. “And that’s really the tragedy of the system, is the lack of funding and the lack of reform.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, while lawmakers can encourage a statewide examination into the costs and benefits of district unification – through studies and hearings – Williams said local leaders ultimately need to sign on to make such a move successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Creating a new district\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To see how much cost a district structure can add, consider how much California paid when it built one from scratch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seeds of Copper Mountain College in the High Desert took root in 1967, when the Desert Community College District in Palm Desert began offering college classes at local schools in the Morongo Basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community leaders in the area began to envision having their own full-fledged college. In 1970, the district bought land on the side of Copper Mountain in Joshua Tree with the idea of eventually building a campus there. And in 1977, voters elected the first Morongo Basin resident to the district board of trustees. Virnita McDonald advocated for a college at Copper Mountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new foundation, the Friends of Copper Mountain College, began raising money for a building campaign. Its success \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/618112-cmc-master-plan-2007-2011.html\" target=\"_blank\">led to the opening of the Copper Mountain campus\u003c/a> in 1984.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, college leaders wanted independence from the Palm Desert district. They argued that their campus wasn’t getting its fair share of resources. They believed the district should have built the Copper Mountain campus sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We felt that we were significantly different from the Palm Desert community,” said Owen Gillick, who has been involved with Copper Mountain College since 1975 and recently retired from the district’s board of trustees. “We felt that even having one of five trustees residing here did not give … us the control over our destiny that we felt we deserved to have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frustrated by what it saw as a lack of action by district leaders, the Friends of Copper Mountain College \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/618118-feb-1998-dccd-meeting.html\" target=\"_blank\">met with Republican state Sen. Jim Brulte\u003c/a> in 1998, hoping for a political solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brulte agreed to tackle the issue. \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/97-98/bill/sen/sb_1651-1700/sb_1665_bill_19980217_introduced.html\" target=\"_blank\">A bill he introduced\u003c/a> authorized a new, separately funded district – without needing the approval of voters in Palm Desert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Wolf, then the executive director of the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, said in an interview that he was uncomfortable with the creation of a district of that size in that location because of obvious fiscal limitations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91640\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/18/states-community-colleges-spend-millions-on-duplicative-administrators/copper-mountain-college-bell-center-by-carolos-puma-cal-watch/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-91640\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-91640 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Copper-Mountain-College-Bell-Center-by-Carolos-Puma-Cal-Watch.jpg\" alt=\" Copper Mountain College’s Bell Center, a 40,000-square-foot multiuse facility.(Carlos Puma/California Watch) \" width=\"328\" height=\"218\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Copper Mountain College’s Bell Center, a 40,000-square-foot multiuse facility.\u003cbr>(Carlos Puma/California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thomas Nussbaum, chancellor of the community college system at the time, also said he had concerns – not only about the extra cost, but also about the circumvention of the standard process for forming a district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the involvement of a powerful legislator made the move inevitable, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brulte “had already made up his mind on the subject and probably had the ability to pass whatever legislation he wanted to pass,” Nussbaum said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1999, the bill became law. Almost overnight, the region went from having one college and one district to two colleges and two districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the new designation came new trappings. The district created two new jobs that mirrored positions at Palm Desert’s College of the Desert: a chief human resources officer and a chief business officer. Copper Mountain also hired a director of fiscal services, promoted the provost to CEO and promoted a professor to a position as chief instructional officer. A new local board was elected. State budgets provided $3 million in the first two years to foot the bill for the transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 1998, before the secession, to 2002, four years after the split, the cost of top-level administration for College of the Desert and Copper Mountain College doubled, growing at twice the rate of the system as a whole. Copper Mountain currently has nine administrators and faculty who make more than $100,000 per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both districts are among California’s smallest. The Desert Community College District enrolls roughly 13,000 students. Copper Mountain, the spinoff, is the second-tiniest district in the state, with 3,000 students enrolled last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiny districts are, by nature, inefficient. In fact, their fixed costs are so high that the state funding formula adds on extra money for them. As a result, per-student funding at Copper Mountain in 2010 was about $8,200 – more than 40 percent higher than the state average of $5,700.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve got to have a board, they’ve got to have a basic campus, they’ve got to have a basic administration, they’ve got to have a basic faculty even if their class size is very small,” Wolf said. “So why would you create something like this … when there’s 55 miles away a great big campus that provides everything?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gillick did not dispute that forming a new small district entailed significant costs. But he said consolidating Copper Mountain with a neighboring district would be an “unsuccessful implant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These small things (districts) are costly, but they have a value that can’t be measured in bucks,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brulte, now the California Republican Party chairman, said there was no requirement in the law that the new district add more administrators. The move had a positive impact in the area, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, additional resources went to Copper Mountain, and it eliminated a tremendous source of conflict within the Morongo Basin,” he said. “The people of the Morongo Basin got to have control of the college district in their community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Overlapping roles\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you look at a map of California’s community college districts, the dots tend to cluster. More than half of the districts are within 20 miles of at least one other community college district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each district comes with a cadre of highly compensated executives who do the same thing as their counterpart with the same title at a district 10 or 15 miles away. In theory, geographically close districts could share a vice president of human resources or a chief business officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how much could be cut, but the community college system spends at least 17 cents of every dollar on top-level administrative costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Watch analyzed payroll data for 16 districts. Combined, the districts – a mix of small and larger ones – had 18 directors of public relations, 21 directors of campus facilities and 12 institutional research chiefs. Not including the district superintendents or college presidents, the districts had some level of overlap in 21 executive or management positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, colleges have dealt with budget cuts by cutting classes. Before last year’s passage of Proposition 30, which temporarily increases income and sales taxes to fund education, funding for community colleges had decreased by $809 million, or 12 percent, since 2008-09.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that time period, the number of students served sunk by nearly half a million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/618124-pr-budgetimpactsurveyquestions-082812-final.html\" target=\"_blank\">an August 2012 survey\u003c/a> conducted by the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, 66 of 78 colleges that responded reported having waitlists for fall classes. On average, there were 7,157 students waitlisted per college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley City College student Clay Smith, 22, witnessed the effects of reduced class offerings firsthand. Last semester was the most hectic he’d ever seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were at least 10 kids standing in every class,” Smith said. “There’s people on the floor and in the hall. … I made sure to get to class 20 minutes early so I knew I had a seat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith needs one more business class to meet the requirements to transfer to a UC school. But he never thought it would take him three years to get here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had no clue,” Smith said. “I didn’t think it was going to take this long of a journey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Obstacles to consolidation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Education Code makes it all but impossible for districts to achieve cost savings right away by merging operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the Napa Valley, Solano and Contra Costa community college districts, which together oversee five colleges. The district offices are within 15 to 25 miles of each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combined, they serve about 81,000 students – fewer than at City College of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you look at them together, Napa Valley, Solano and Contra Costa had three chief business officers, five directors of campus facilities, three athletic directors and three public relations chiefs in 2011. They also had two directors of information technology, chief financial aid officers and vice presidents of student success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were 12 key executive or administrative positions that clearly overlapped across all three districts and two other positions duplicated in 2 out of 3 districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salaries and benefits for these 43 people totaled roughly $6.4 million. 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For example, the districts would have to standardize their curriculums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While on the surface, I think it’s certainly not something you cannot do, there are many obstacles you’d have to address in trying to merge the institutions,” Ligioso said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The districts have not discussed merging, but even if they did, they wouldn’t be able to immediately reduce duplicative positions. California’s Education Code \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/618120-california-education-code-sec-88018.html\" target=\"_blank\">prohibits districts from laying off nonacademic employees\u003c/a> for two years following a merger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That protection originates from a 1961 bill sponsored by the California School Employees Association, which ensured a year of job security for nonacademic employees after a merger. 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They would have to show that they could maintain the same quality of instruction and student support. The process entails legal review and a fee of $20,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new district also would have to sort out multiple collective bargaining agreements, each with its own salary schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill McGinnis, a trustee at the Butte-Glenn Community College District in Oroville, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/618122-mcginnis-report.html\" target=\"_blank\">took a deeper look\u003c/a> at these laws and regulations in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very complicated process and a very costly process,” McGinnis said. “There’s no cost savings for at least two years. 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They often cite the state’s largest district, the nine-college, 230,000-student Los Angeles Community College District, as a highly bureaucratic organization they do not want to emulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mergers would be rather complicated legally, and we would have to be convinced that such mergers would bring about savings,” said Jack Scott, former chancellor of the California Community Colleges. “Unfortunately, there’s not evidence that (multicollege districts) operate more efficiently than some of the surrounding districts that are one-college districts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Small districts consider collaboration\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the state’s small districts are in precarious financial straits because budget cuts are making it increasingly difficult to support the administrative costs of running a district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When statewide budget cuts hit, community colleges get lower enrollment targets – meaning fewer classes and student services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But districts can scale down instructional and support services more easily than they can adjust the cost of administrative services such as payroll, accounting, information technology and institutional research, said Yuba Community College District Chancellor Doug Houston. That means courses and educational services end up on the chopping block first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re making the cuts by reducing our core academic functions, and we’re kind of chipping away at the margins of being more efficient with those noncore functions,” Houston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal and political obstacles involved in merging districts have stopped districts from getting past the most preliminary discussions about consolidating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houston stops short of advocating that small districts should merge to save money. He’s concerned that moving a district administration farther away would take something away from those communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he has been working with a group of mostly small rural college districts to explore ways to share some of these administrative services, such as payroll services or server farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group includes the Mendocino-Lake, Siskiyou Joint, Shasta-Tehama-Trinity Joint, Lassen, Feather River, Lake Tahoe, Monterey Peninsula\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> Butte-Glenn and Yuba districts in Northern California, plus the Copper Mountain, Barstow and Palo Verde college districts in the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My fear is that for these smaller colleges that they’re already on the precipice, and that another round of cuts will put them in extreme jeopardy,” Houston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group does not yet have an estimate of the potential savings districts could achieve. At Houston’s former district, the 5,000-student Lassen Community College District in Susanville, he estimated administrative costs made up 21 percent of the budget. He figures at least a quarter of that could be shaved through collaboration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houston and Kindred Murillo, president of the Lake Tahoe Community College District, are talking about sharing one or more senior administrators in the future, even though the two district offices are 145 miles apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The districts’ immediate financial woes are only the short-term context for the push toward collaboration, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bigger context is that the paying public, quite legitimately, is skeptical as to how efficient we have been in public services and is demanding greater efficiency,” Houston said. “And I think legitimately so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-91501\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/PhotoWeek130315popemass.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoWeek130315popemass\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone conducts a mass in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/13/new-pope-chosen/\">honor of the election of Pope Francis\u003c/a>, the first Pope from South America, on March 14, 2013. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-91503\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/PhotoWeek130315symphony.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoWeek130315symphony\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">Musicians for the San Francisco Symphony \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/13/san-francisco-symphony-on-strike-concert-cancelled/\" target=\"_blank\">went on strike\u003c/a> Wednesday, March 13 after eight months of fruitless talks with management centered on wage and benefit issues. Violinist Suzanne Leon (left) is in her 23rd season with the symphony, and says that management should value musicians' experience and ability. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-91504\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/PhotoWeek130315persian.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoWeek130315persian\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">On March 12, Berkeley held its customary, highly popular, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/03/13/photos-berkeley-leaps-the-fires-for-persian-new-year/\">Persian New Year Festival\u003c/a>, the Chahar Shanbeh Suri, on Durant Avenue. One of the key elements of the celebration is jumping over fire. The tradition is seen as a cleansing ritual, bidding farewell to winter and burning away negativity. (Kaia Diringer/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-91502\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/PhotoWeek130315turkeys.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoWeek130315turkeys\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">Part of a flock of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/14/can-you-shoot-a-goose-and-other-bay-area-wildlife-questions/\">about 30 wild turkeys that invaded\u003c/a> and took up residence in an Albany neighborhood in December 2012. As more and more wild creatures set up housekeeping in Bay Area cities and suburbs, some residents are getting tired of squirrels eating their bird food. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-91517\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/RS4263_019.jpg-PhotoWeek130315CCSFprotest.jpg\" alt=\"RS4263_019.jpg-PhotoWeek130315CCSFprotest\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">On Friday, the City College of San Francisco submitted a report to an accreditation agency detailing how the school plans to address a host of financial and administrative concerns. If the college loses accreditation, the state would withdraw funding, leaving City College essentially bankrupt. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/15/city-college-of-san-francisco-fights-for-its-future/\">During a protest on Thursday\u003c/a>, Eric Blanc asked protesters to raise their hands to show how many of them had entered San Francisco City Hall. The protesters asked Mayor Ed Lee to \"save city college\" by committing to further funding the school. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-91518\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/PhotoWeek130315GGNRA.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoWeek130315GGNRA\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">Amanda Williford, curator and reference archivist for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/goga/historyculture/collections.htm\">Golden Gate National Recreation Area\u003c/a>, holds an original glass-plate negative showing the second Cliff House, which burned down in 1907, above San Francisco's Ocean Beach. Historical materials from throughout the national park will be \u003ca href=\"http://oceanbeachbulletin.com/2013/03/15/ggnra-archive-open-house-offers-look-into-national-parks-past/\">on display at an open house at the GGNRA's Golden Gate Museum Program \u003c/a>on Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Tom Prete/\u003ca href=\"http://oceanbeachbulletin.com/\">Ocean Beach Bulletin\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-91521\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/PhotoWeek130315butterflies.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoWeek130315butterflies\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">Butterflies collected from Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) lands will be among the materials on display at an open house Friday and Saturday at the \u003ca href=\"http://oceanbeachbulletin.com/2013/03/15/ggnra-archive-open-house-offers-look-into-national-parks-past/\">GGNRA's archives\u003c/a>. The open house will display both the human and ecological history of the area. (Tom Prete/\u003ca href=\"http://oceanbeachbulletin.com/\">Ocean Beach Bulletin\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-91519\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/PhotoWeek130315basketball.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoWeek130315basketball\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">Kennedy Lady Eagles Raven Caldwell had to be carried off the court by her coaches in her \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2013/03/12/lady-eagles-lose-to-sacred-heart-prepare-for-next-season/\">very last game as an Eagle\u003c/a>. The senior point guard turned her ankle while playing defense. Sacred Heart Cathedral, the number one seed in the NorCal Division III playoffs, withstood a frenzied Kennedy first-half attack to win 86-70. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>By Charla Bear\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s tough for Teresa Villicana, a student at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccsf.edu/NEW/\">City College of San Francisco\u003c/a>, to focus on her studies right now. She’s got a more pressing concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 408px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" \" src=\"https://newsimage.kqed.org/filestore/4/2/6/5_d15256a1b80b662/4265scr_3eaf1ad48db8875.jpg?v=2013-03-14+17%3A20%3A38\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"272\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students marched from several city college campuses, to Mission High school to ask students to join them on their march to city hall, where they went inside and chanted. They then held a rally outside, with several hundred people. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If they close, where are we going to be?” she asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closure is a real possibility for CCSF. It’s facing a deadline Friday to prove to an accreditation agency how it plans to address a long list of financial and administrative concerns. If the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges pulls CCSF’s credentials, the state would follow suit by withdrawing funding. And City College is not alone: Its financial difficulties reflect the the growing struggle that many California colleges face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The troubles at City College, which serves more than 80,000 students, have sparked a local campaign to save the school. 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But he adds there’s still a lot of hard work to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t get around our fiscal challenge,” Kamer said. “We have an institution that has grown to unsustainable levels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The college hasn’t been able to resolve one of the commission’s biggest concerns—that roughly 92 percent of its budget goes to salaries, benefits and retirement, leaving only 8 percent for all remaining operations and site maintenance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The college’s board of trustees approved a $187 million 2012-13 budget. About $97 million of that total comes from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not Just a City College Problem\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCSF is \u003ca href=\"http://www.accjc.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ACCJC-Memo-to-Field-w-Jan-2013-Commission-Actions_REVISED_3-7-13.pdf\">not the only community college in the state\u003c/a> in danger of shutting down. 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The reported abuses included cases of rape and molestation as well as allegations that a state worker used a Taser to inflict burns on a dozen patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Watch investigation exposed these cases and focused on failures of an internal police force to get to the bottom of the abuses. One-third of the 36 alleged rapes occurred at the Sonoma board-and-care center – one of five such facilities in California that house about 1,600 patients with severe disabilities.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state Office of Protective Services, a unique internal police force set up exclusively to protect residents of these state centers, routinely mishandled cases – waiting too long to interview witnesses or suspects and failing to collect evidence. In the alleged sex assaults reported at these state facilities, the police force never ordered a “rape kit,” a standard law enforcement investigatory tool. 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One former doctor at the facility was particularly critical of the appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her appointment is an amazing bit of duplicity,” said Dr. Van Peña, a physician at the Sonoma Developmental Center from 1990 to 2000. “She is totally party line, so I don’t know how she’s going to right the ship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faria could not be reached for comment today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faria began at the Sonoma center as a recreation therapist in 1985 and rose through the ranks as the clients’ rights advocate, quality assurance program director and clinical director from 2000 to 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peña said Faria’s success at the center came from keeping her head down and not questioning authority, even when patient safety was on the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is not an independent thinker,” Peña said. “If someone above her told her to do this or that, she would do it. That’s why that place had such abysmal care – because those instructions didn’t help patients, they helped people keep their jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peña is suing the Department of Developmental Services, alleging officials at the Sonoma center fired him for reporting suspicious injuries to outside regulators and to law enforcement. The state denies the claim and has fought the doctor’s lawsuit for a decade. It is scheduled to go to trial in federal court later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Lungren, a spokeswoman for the Department of Developmental Services, which oversees the state’s five developmental centers, said Faria’s background was carefully reviewed before the selection was made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These background checks indicated Ms. Faria would be a strong leader committed to client protection,” Lungren said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma center is appealing the loss of its license with state public health officials. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>by Amy Julia Harris, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/new-director-take-over-troubled-sonoma-disability-center-18827\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former employee of the Sonoma Developmental Center has been tapped to head California’s largest full-time care facility for the severely disabled, at a time when the institution is struggling to reinvent itself in the wake of patient abuse scandals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91099\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/11/new-director-to-take-over-troubled-sonoma-disability-center/sonoma-developmental-center-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-91099\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-91099\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Sonoma-Developmental-Center.jpg\" alt=\"Donna Lazzini embraces her son, Timothy Lazzini, a resident of the Sonoma Developmental Center who died in 2005. (Monica Lam/California Watch)\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donna Lazzini embraces her son, Timothy Lazzini, a resident of the Sonoma Developmental Center who died in 2005. (Monica Lam/California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Department of Developmental Services announced Wednesday that Karen Faria, who worked at the Sonoma Developmental Center from 1985 to 2005, will become the embattled facility’s latest executive director starting April 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appointment comes in the wake of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiawatch.org/broken-shield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Watch series\u003c/a> that uncovered serious allegations of patient abuse at the Sonoma Developmental Center. The reported abuses included cases of rape and molestation as well as allegations that a state worker used a Taser to inflict burns on a dozen patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Watch investigation exposed these cases and focused on failures of an internal police force to get to the bottom of the abuses. One-third of the 36 alleged rapes occurred at the Sonoma board-and-care center – one of five such facilities in California that house about 1,600 patients with severe disabilities.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state Office of Protective Services, a unique internal police force set up exclusively to protect residents of these state centers, routinely mishandled cases – waiting too long to interview witnesses or suspects and failing to collect evidence. In the alleged sex assaults reported at these state facilities, the police force never ordered a “rape kit,” a standard law enforcement investigatory tool. After a state worker was accused of using a stun gun to inflict burns on a dozen severely autistic male patients, the police force waited at least nine days to interview the suspect, who was never charged with a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The series sparked new polices, a complete retraining of the police force, leadership changes and a criminal investigation by the Sonoma County district attorney’s office into the stun gun abuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The series also led to two new laws signed by Gov. Jerry Brown designed to bring greater protections to the severely disabled living in these state centers. A third bill, introduced last month, would mandate that rape kit examinations be conducted if a patient at any state-operated institution accuses an employee of sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 651 written by Sen. Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, and Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, would require the exam be performed “at an appropriate facility off the grounds of the developmental center or state hospital.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the state revoked the Sonoma facility’s primary license to operate, threatening a loss of millions of dollars in federal support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faria’s appointment is the latest move to make changes at the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am thrilled that Ms. Faria is returning to lead Sonoma Developmental Center and continue implementation of necessary reforms at the facility,” said California Health and Human Services Secretary Diana S. Dooley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some are already expressing concern about the appointment. Former employees of the Sonoma center say that Faria was part of the administrative old guard that knew of patient abuse and tried to suppress investigations into wrongdoing at the center. One former doctor at the facility was particularly critical of the appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her appointment is an amazing bit of duplicity,” said Dr. Van Peña, a physician at the Sonoma Developmental Center from 1990 to 2000. “She is totally party line, so I don’t know how she’s going to right the ship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faria could not be reached for comment today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faria began at the Sonoma center as a recreation therapist in 1985 and rose through the ranks as the clients’ rights advocate, quality assurance program director and clinical director from 2000 to 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peña said Faria’s success at the center came from keeping her head down and not questioning authority, even when patient safety was on the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is not an independent thinker,” Peña said. “If someone above her told her to do this or that, she would do it. That’s why that place had such abysmal care – because those instructions didn’t help patients, they helped people keep their jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peña is suing the Department of Developmental Services, alleging officials at the Sonoma center fired him for reporting suspicious injuries to outside regulators and to law enforcement. The state denies the claim and has fought the doctor’s lawsuit for a decade. It is scheduled to go to trial in federal court later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Lungren, a spokeswoman for the Department of Developmental Services, which oversees the state’s five developmental centers, said Faria’s background was carefully reviewed before the selection was made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These background checks indicated Ms. Faria would be a strong leader committed to client protection,” Lungren said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma center is appealing the loss of its license with state public health officials. In January, the Department of Developmental Services agreed to forfeit more than $1 million a month in federal funding for failing to protect severely disabled patients from abuse at some of the center’s housing units. The federal funds cover as much as half of the treatment costs for patients who qualify for the federal program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has taken what it calls “aggressive actions” to correct problems at Sonoma, including having the California Highway Patrol oversee the law enforcement, establishing an independent on-site monitor and enhancing staff training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With her extensive experience, Ms. Faria will be able to provide the strong leadership needed to improve services and ensure that residents are living in a healthy and safe environment,” said Terri Delgadillo, the department’s director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faria assumes her new position April 1 with an annual salary of $108,564, according to the Department of Developmental Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Peña doubted Faria could now protect patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless she was locked in a closet with bricks all those years, the physicians and nurses would have seen incident reports of patient neglect and abuse,” said Peña. “She would have known about the incident reports.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For the last several years, the first Friday of every month has been a date Oaklanders, fans of Oakland, art aficionados, and connoisseurs of community celebrations have all looked forward to. Starting with an event called \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandartmurmur.org/about-oakland-art-murmur/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art Murmur\u003c/a>–a gallery walk centered in the Uptown neighborhood on Telegraph Avenue–\u003ca href=\"http://oaklandfirstfridays.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Friday\u003c/a> has become a monthly street party, music fest, and craft fair–a moment to look beyond the city’s many problems and celebrate what the city is at its best. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the reality of the city’s biggest crisis–violent crime–intruded on First Friday last month. Near the end of the evening’s festivities, 18-year-old Kiante Campbell was shot and killed in the parking lot of a beauty supply store at 20th Street and Telegraph Avenue. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED News Associate Oakland Local \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandlocal.com/article/remembering-kiante-campbell-oaklands-first-friday-returns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">notes\u003c/a> that both Campbell and his accused killer, another 18-year-old, exemplify a certain tragic dimension of violence in the city: Nearly half of Oakland’s 131 homicide victims last year were between the ages of 15 and 25; many of the suspects in those cases are also very young. \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“This happens a lot, and we ignore it. I get to see it regularly, because I bury a lot of them,” said Pastor Matthew Graves, executive director of Scotlan Youth & Family Center, where Kiante was enrolled in the Highway to Work Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He met Kiante through his parish about a year ago and described Campbell as a young man who “boldly went” wherever he was going, an active participant in their jobs program and a counselor at the Boys & Girls Club. He said Kiante had attended a fundraiser for the Scotlan Center the Thursday before the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We lost one of ours. We lost them both: Kiante and his shooter,” Graves said. “We need to find a way to put value back into their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donald Parks Jr., the 18-year-old man accused of killing Campbell, was also a client of Grave’s jobs program. Parks recently had a child who the Scotlan Center is helping to support.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>When First Friday takes to the streets again tonight, last month’s shooting will hang over proceedings.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nThe event is scheduled to include two moments of silence–one for Campbell, and one for last year’s homicide victims. City officials \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/ceda/documents/pressrelease/oak039836.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have announced\u003c/a> police will strictly enforce open-bottle laws to curb drinking on the street. Art galleries won’t be serving alcohol. The party will be confined to the area between West Grand Avenue and 27th Street. The number of music stages will be limited to two, and performances will focus on themes of peace and reconciliation. The event, which officially ended at 10 p.m. previously, will be shut down at 9 p.m. And more security will likely be on hand. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(And if tonight doesn’t sound interesting enough already, a faction of Occupy Oakland has scheduled a downtown \u003ca href=\"http://occupyoakland.org/ai1ec_event/occupy-oakland-ftp-march/?instance_id=245462\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-police march\u003c/a> tonight at 7.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s for this month’s First Friday. As \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_22682103/first-friday-returns-amid-talk-changes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew Artz reported in the Oakland Tribune\u003c/a> more dramatic changes may be in store: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>But several business operators say the city and the volunteer group that organizes the festival need more security guards and seasoned managers to handle crowds that have swelled beyond expectations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Fox Theater General Manager Ruth Carlton told council members she was concerned her patrons “walk out into a bit of chaos” on festival nights and urged the city to adopt a professional security plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Rick Mitchell, owner of Luka’s Taproom, convened the owners of several large Uptown bars and restaurants, who agreed to help provide organizational and security support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s first step, Mitchell said, is to explore moving the festival to Saturday afternoons when fewer security guards would be needed to keep the peace.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by Jennifer Gollan, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/print/18817\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the head of one of the state’s largest independent pension funds received an invitation recently for his staff to attend a conference in Hawaii, his response lacked the aloha spirit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_90312\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/27/retirement-systems-to-send-members-to-hawaii-summit/waikiki-beach/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90312\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-90312 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/waikiki-beach-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Waikiki Beach, Hawaii (Medioimages/Photodisc)\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waikiki Beach, Hawaii (Medioimages/Photodisc)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t plan on approving anyone to attend this conference given its location. … Hawaii is just not the right message to send at this time,” William Raggio, interim general manager of the Los Angeles Fire and Police Pensions, warned in an email to his staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other pension plans couldn’t resist. Four of the state’s 24 largest independent municipal retirement systems intend to send up to five board members each, a survey by California Watch has found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They include the city of Los Angeles, as well as Contra Costa, Los Angeles and San Diego counties – which are short a combined $17.5 billion to pay promised retiree pension benefits, according to figures provided by the plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conference organizers expect about 1,000 pension trustees, money managers and consultants from across the nation to converge on the famed beaches of Waikiki from May 19 to 23 for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncpers.org/\" target=\"_blank\">National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems\u003c/a>, billed as the largest gathering of its kind for public pension plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An agenda shows most conference sessions end by early afternoon, leaving ample time for surfing, golfing, tanning or relaxing at one of the conference hotel’s five swimming pools. The total cost per attendee: $2,600 or more, by some estimates, including airfare, hotel, registration and other expenses.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conference website supplies board members hoping to shore up support for their expenses-paid trip a “\u003ca href=\"http://www.ncpers.org/page.php?pageid=147\" target=\"_blank\">2013 Attendance Justification Tool Kit\u003c/a>.” The site also includes “7 Tips for Building Your Case for Attending the Annual Conference,” which suggests that trustees emphasize how the conference could help them “build a networking list” and identify ways to help “save your fund money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked why pension officials needed a tool kit to rationalize their trip to Honolulu, Hank Kim, executive director and counsel for the trade association organizing the national conference, said, “In hindsight, maybe ‘justification’ wasn’t the best choice of words.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of government spending – and some pension officials – say travel to exotic destinations by those overseeing ailing pension funds is unseemly, especially as taxpayers watch their public services diminish to offset growing pension costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no such thing as a free trip to Waikiki,” said Joe Nation, a professor of the practice of public policy at Stanford University, who specializes in public employee pensions. “Everybody loses; taxpayers will have to pay more, or beneficiaries will have to pay more, or a combination of the two.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nation, a former Assembly Democrat from Marin, added that the pension managers “would have higher returns and their beneficiaries would be better off if they were to forgo this trip or travel close to home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conference in Hawaii was planned and booked back in 2006, before the recent recession, Kim said. Still, organizers expect a strong turnout as trustees and money managers seek to gain an edge in a recovering economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being able to have discussions and network with pension officials from all over the country is one of the things that our members find most valuable,” said Kim, whose organization represents nearly 560 public pension plans nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sessions are to include “Avoiding a Front Page Scandal at Your Pension Fund: Learning by Example,” and “How Do We Transform the Way People Think, Talk, and Act about Pensions?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Cabral, one of five board members from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cccera.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Contra Costa County Employees’ Retirement Association\u003c/a> who plans to attend, said he doesn’t think current and future retirees view “my travel as a boondoggle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are trustees who are trying to further their own personal wealth, who are looking for employment with money managers,” said Cabral, a board member since 1977. “But my job is here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The real big value is interacting with other trustees. It helps to get different points of view,” said Cabral, who also serves as president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO Local 512, a union that represents 300 employees in Contra Costa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But fellow Contra Costa pension trustee John Gioia questioned the plan to send a large delegation using public funds, especially to a place like Hawaii.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pension trustees should exercise self-discipline and consider public perception in deciding which conferences to attend, otherwise the pension board may have to set limits on the number of trustees it sends,” said Gioia, who also is a county supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Full travel costs for most local pension board members attending the conference have not been finalized. Along with the five board members from Contra Costa County, attendees will include three from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdcera.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego County Employees Retirement Association\u003c/a>, two from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacers.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System\u003c/a> and one from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacera.com/home/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pension administrators in San Diego County estimate that they will spend a total of $7,950 to send three trustees: board Chairman David Myers, Vice Chairman E.F. “Skip” Murphy and alternate board member Tim Hancock. That includes airfare, conference registration and a five- or six-night stay at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls to Myers, Murphy and Hancock were referred to Brian White, the plan’s chief executive. Through a spokesman, White issued a statement that said: “California state law requires board members to fulfill an education requirement. SDCERA assists Board members in fulfilling this requirement to educate and continuously improve the knowledge and understanding of complex topics and trends involving the governance of a public pension fund. Educational seminars typically cover critical topics such as legal requirements, investing, and trustee ethics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those new training requirements went into effect in January. Under a law amended by the state Legislature last year, boards overseeing pension systems in 20 California counties must ensure board members receive 24 hours of education every two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the more frugal pension plans encourage their trustees to attend seminars in state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to save money,” said Greg Frank, a management analyst for the San Joaquin County Employees’ Retirement Association, a $2 billion plan covering roughly 11,000 current and future retirees. “We give the trustees classes to attend that are local, in places like Berkeley. It’s real easy to keep it in California and keep costs down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill’s author, Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont, said he did not believe pension board members – or, for that matter, groups of trustees – needed to travel to exotic locations to fulfill the new training requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Hawaii conference would fulfill the requirements, so do programs set up through accredited academic institutions in California. Educational conferences scheduled over the next two years include those in Napa, Indian Wells, Sacramento and Monterey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think that running up travel expenses and hotel rooms was a requirement of getting educated,” Wieckowski said. “We’re asking the public to show fiscal restraint, the cities and counties and the state are providing less services, and people are paying more taxes. So you would think these decision-makers would reflect that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PENSION BOARD MEMBERS PLANNING TO ATTEND THE CONFERENCE\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n- Jeffrey Penichet, board vice president\u003cbr>\n- Elizabeth Greenwood, commissioner\u003cbr>\nExpenses have not been finalized. Penichet and Greenwood did not return calls and emails requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n- Herman Santos, chairman of the Board of Investments\u003cbr>\nHotel stay estimated to cost $1,139.60. Other expenses have not been finalized. Santos referred questions to Gregg Rademacher, chief executive of the pension plan, who issued a written statement: “While conferences are generally held in the continental U.S., we are fortunate that our 50th state, Hawaii, is easier and more cost effective to attend than policy and investment conferences on the East Coast, namely, Washington D.C. and New York city. Although the flight times are approximately the same for Honolulu and Washington D.C., flying to and lodging in Hawaii is consistently more cost effective (and safe). The best case scenario is having a world-class conference, such as a NCPERS conference, in your home town, however, that is seldom the case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Contra Costa County Employees’ Retirement Association \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n- Terry Buck, trustee: registration is $1,000\u003cbr>\n- Richard Cabral, trustee: registration is $650\u003cbr>\n- Jerry Telles, trustee: registration is $1,000\u003cbr>\n- Gabe Rodrigues, alternate trustee: registration is $1,000\u003cbr>\n- Debora Allen, trustee: registration is $650\u003cbr>\nEstimated travel costs for the board members have not been finalized. 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