Ann Motte

“Current Commission guidelines require an off-campus operation to serve a minimum of 500 fall-

term FTES before it can be recognized as a state-approved center and eligible to compete for state

capital outlay funding. The Board of Governors threshold is nearly identical, except it requires at

least 500 FTES annually.”

http://www.cpec.ca.gov/completereports/2009reports/09-08.pdf Page 2

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Latest MSJC enrollment reports 61 FTES in the Pass with head count at 400.  Building a Pass campus without benefit of state capital funding is poor fiscal policy.  It will take years before enrollments in the Pass meet above enrollment FTES guideline targets to qualify as a “state approved center”.

Measure U, the 47 million dollar bond proposal in the Pass for a college campus is poor policy and untimely.

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http://www.pe.com/localnews/banning/stories/PE_News_Local_D_eb26_support.1eba2cd.html

“The BanningCity Council voted 4-1 Tuesday night to support a bond measure that would finance the construction of a MSJC campus in the Pass area.  Councilwoman Debbie Franklin voted against the council backing the initiative.”

“Franklin said she supports education and the college but this is not the right time for the measure.”

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The $47,000,000 bond will NOT qualify for state matching grants because enrollment levels are far below the state guidelines of 500 FTES and the college cannot seek state approval until said enrollments are reached. That will take years.  The campus will also NOT receive operating funds.  Where will those come from?

“Measure U” is the board chair’s personal “job stimulus plan” for the Pass and is counter to the district’s own Educational plan which does NOT propose a Pass campus until 2025-2030.”

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FYI/ Source MSJC Educational Plan, 2009-16 - Page 63

http://www.msjc.edu/InstitutionalPlanningandEffectiveness/Documents/Planning_Documents/Supplement_to_the_Educational_Master_Plan.pdf

3.  Area C: I-15 Corridor

“Need for a Center:   Examining the population present and growing in the I-15 corridor, the college should pursue site selection and state approval for the construction of a 37370 A.S.F. facility.  While only a ’staging campus’, the needs of the population already present could easily and rapidly enroll such a campus to capacity, generating over 1,600 FTES annually.”

4.  Area D: San Gorgonio Pass

“Speed of Development:  In the population projections, data are referenced which would result in over 3,800 enrollees by 2025, assuming 39 enrollments per 1,000 adults.

“The college should pursue state funds for the design stage of a permanent center on the site.”

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A Pass campus is years out (2025) with current head count enrollment at 400. Asking taxpayers for $47,000,000 WITHOUT access to state matching grants and center approval status is counter to district’s own plan.  Administrative recommendation to build Banning now, is politics, not leadership.

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09:05 PM PDT on Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Golden classrooms?

Mt. San Jacinto College has put a measure on the ballot asking for $47 million to build classrooms in Banning (”Mt. San Jacinto College to place bond measure on Nov. 2,” July 24). How does the construction of general education, career and technology classrooms cost $47 million? Did the city manager of Bell write up the contract?

Randall Enders

Beaumont

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MSJC may be “out of touch” with voters.  Transferring class sections to the “Pass” doesn’t create new FTES.

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“Pirots business checks paid for a police dispatch radio licensing fee and a repair bill on a damaged police car, and then Chief Kevin Segawa instructed McComas to recoup the money by not forwarding impound fees owed the college, according to court records and testimony.”

Segawa, 39 of Menifee pleaded guilty in June in the case to eight felonies and two misdemeanors, including bribery, perjury and misappropriation of public funds.  His sentencing is scheduled Aug. 24.

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Former probationary released officers attempted several times to inform the college of perceived wrongdoing. Not until the DA arrived with a search warrant was Segawa placed on administrative leave.  MSJC has not released internal investigative info in this matter due to the former officers civil suit.

Segawa’s supervisor’s contract was renewed.

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