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Northwestern, Coosa Valley tech colleges will merge services ...
Found: 3 Weeks 3 Days 16 Hours 20 Minutes ago
Catoosa County News - SOUNDOFF: Post your commentsUPDATED with comments from state Sen. Jeff MullisNorthwestern Technical College will merge administrative services with Coosa Valley Technical College in Rome, Ga.It was announced earlier this month that the merger was being considered by the Technical College System of Georgia.Northwestern officials were not available for comment Monday morning.Northwestern is headquartered in Rock Spring and serves Northwest Georgia. It has a satellite campus on Battlefield Parkway in Ringgold.According to the Technical College System of Georgia, neither campus will be closed as a result of the merger, but personnel will be cut.Coosa Valley Tech president Craig McDaniel said a significant reduction in both schools’ budgets is expected. “Each school will lose $250,000,” McDaniel said. “We don’t have the luxury to lose $700,000 or $800,000 without losing people.”Specific personnel cuts have not yet been announced. “We’re going to take care of this consolidation thing, it’s been given to us and we’re going to make it work,” McDaniel said.Republican Sen. Jeff Mullis of Chickamauga said of the merger, “I am against the merger. Our local legislative delegation is advocating against it. We don’t want to lose our local identity.”But Mullis said he also understands the need behind the merger. “I understand the state must take strong measures to avoid a looming budget crisis. The state is looking to save money. The governor has given a directive that each department throughout the state is to cut operating costs by 6 percent. This is the technical college system’s way of meeting the governor’s directive.”Under the proposal, administrative services at 14 of the state’s technical schools will be consolidate into seven. The state has 33 technical schools. Each of the 14 campuses will continue to operate. The mergers are expected to save about $3.5 million.“Combining the office of the president will save the state money,” Mullis said.But he said he regrets seeing the office cut from Northwestern. “The current administration of Jeff King (interim president at Northwestern) has been outstanding. He is to be applauded for filling the office vacated by long-time president Dr. Ray Brooks.”Brooks left Northwestern in February to become president of Piedmont Technical College in Greeenwood, S.C. Related content on catoosanews.comNorthwestern, Coosa Valley tech colleges could merge (published Sept. 10)CLICK ON THESE LINKSFEEDBACK: Send a letter to the editorSUBSCRIBE: Get The Catoosa County News each WednesdayGO BACK:Return to our homepage...
Cutting to the quick: Northwestern Tech bracing for deeper cuts ...
Found: 3 Weeks 4 Days 8 Hours 49 Minutes ago
Catoosa County News - ROCK SPRING -- In a meeting Monday with Northwestern Technical College’s board of directors, interim president Jeff King said “deeper cuts are likely.”These would be in addition to cuts needed to for a merger between the school and Coosa Valley Technical College in Rome.The cuts to which King referred are being imposed by state officials who are trying to erase a $1.6 billion shortfall in state revenue.“The current state budget situation is the worst I have seen since I’ve been here and I’ve been here since 1993,” King said.Northwestern’s main campus is in Rock Spring. The school serves four counties in Northwest Georgia — Walker, Catoosa, Dade and Chattooga. The school has a satellite campus on Battlefield Parkway in Ringgold.Georgia law requires lawmakers to end the fiscal year with a balanced budget. Gov. Sonny Perdue has said state spending must be reduced by six percent for the state to end its fiscal year in the black on July 31.King cited six areas where the school will look to reduce its operating expenses.“Some of the cost-cutting measures we are doing is eliminating our landscaping services,” King said. “We are reducing our billboard advertising and changing our method of quarterly schedule printing and distribution. We in the past have printed schedules and mailed them out on a quarterly basis to everyone in the four-county area. We are going to currently make those available on our Web site and mail individuals when asked.”King said the reduction in printing schedules will save the school about $100,000.“We will also eliminate our evening commercial truck driving class,” King continued. “We will also have a major reduction in travel and will not fill an open general education position. These are just some of the cost-cutting measures we are doing to meet the six percent cut imposed for 2009.”King said there might be additional cuts that state agencies will face, but only time will tell what the state may sanction in light of the current economic downturn.King also spoke of the merger between Northwestern and Coosa Valley Tech.King described the merger as “a cost-saving measure for FY 2010 due to serve budget reduction.”The merger of the two Northwest Georgia schools follows a plan officials first began to consider about a year ago of consolidating 14 technical schools across the state into seven.Essentially, the Technical College System of Georgia has described the mergers as little more than combing the administration of the 14 schools into seven.However, King said additional changes are likely to occur, including a name change for his school and Coosa Valley Tech.“The name of the college will be left up to the two local boards, but in all likelihood there will be a name change,” King said.The decision to combine the two schools came late last week after officials had made public that state officials were considering such a merger.King said, “Our situation is not what anyone of us would have chosen, but I fully understand the gravity of the state’s economic condition and I have made a commitment to our system’s leadership that I will do everything in my power to make this merger on time and in as painless a manner as possible.”Although initially it seemed that personnel cuts might escape the chopping block, King explained that such cuts were inevitable.“I will be as fair as I can possibly be, but there will be some very tough personnel and staffing decisions that will have to be made,” King said.King said the boards of both schools will meet Sept. 25 in Summerville at United Community Bank to begin discussing details concerning the merger.“Above all we must maintain our commitment that our students won’t be affected in a negative manner and that our services to our business partners and to our local community will remain positive,” King said.CLICK ON THESE LINKSFEEDBACK: Send a letter to the editorSUBSCRIBE: Get The Catoosa County News each WednesdayGO BACK:Return to our homepage...
High school football: Cairo up to No. 1 in AP poll
Found: 3 Weeks 4 Days 10 Hours 2 Minutes ago
Gainesville Times - ATLANTA — After losing to Class AAAAA No. 3 Northside-Warner Robins, Class AAA Carver-Columbus drops to No. 2 and makes way for Cairo to top the poll in this week's Associated Press high school football poll. ...
Ga. parole board to hear Alderman clemency bid
Found: 3 Weeks 5 Days 4 Hours 12 Minutes ago
Georgia Examiner - The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles hastily scheduled a clemency hearing for convicted killer Jack Alderman after a judge ruled Monday that his execution could not proceed without one. Alderman, 57, is Georgia's longest serving death row inmate. If the five-member board denies clemency his execution could go forward as scheduled at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Alderman's legal team has also asked the Georgia Supreme Court for a stay. ...
McCain calls into Ga. GOP rally
Found: 4 Weeks 4 Hours 48 Minutes ago
Georgia Examiner - With about 50 days left until the election, Georgia Republicans revved up their base Saturday with a rally urging voters to send Saxby Chambliss back to the U.S. Senate for a second term. But it was the race for the White House that grabbed center stage. ...
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