An ad hoc subcommittee of the Lane Community College Board of Education took a first crack Friday, Jan. 2, at a three-year plan proposed by college administrators to cut spending by $8 million over the next three school years.
The subcommittee — board Chair Austin Fölnagy, Vice Chair Jerry Rust and member Zachary Mulholland — posed questions about the plan, which is intended to boost the college’s ending fund balance (essentially, its reserves) back to the level required by board policy by the end of the 2029 school year.
Most LCC administrators — still on their holiday break — were not available to offer immediate answers during Friday’s meeting on Zoom. Mulholland said he would compile a list of the questions and submit it, with hopes that answers would be ready in time for the subcommittee’s next meetings, scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 5 and 6, at 2 p.m…