[BLC] Final Legislative Budgets

[Carli Schiffner]

From: John Boesenberg <jboesenberg at sbctc.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2020 3:01 PM
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Subject: FW: Final Legislative Budgets

See the summary of the operating and capital budget below.  Please forward to your respective commission/counsel listserv

John Boesenberg, Deputy Executive Director
Business Operations
360-704-4303; jboesenberg at sbctc.edu<mailto:jboesenberg at sbctc.edu>

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Subject: FW: Final Legislative Budgets


This message is being sent to State Board Members, College Presidents/Chancellors, and the system Commission and Council listservs.



Good Afternoon,



Last night the Legislature passed the final 2020 Operating and Capital Supplemental budgets and ended their 2020 Session.  They are unchanged from the conference budgets we provided yesterday.   Below is a quick summary of each.  Attached is a more detailed summary of the Operating Budget.



Operating Budget

The system was successful in maintaining all of the investments from the Workforce Education Investment Act (ESHB 2158), two of which were threatened in the Senate budget.  Additionally, new funding was provided for incumbent worker training.  A few highlights:



*       $2.4 million in one-time funding for the Job Skills Program for incumbent worker training offered through college-business partnerships.



*       Guided Pathways and Nurse Educator Salary funding was retained. (The Senate had proposed a one-time reduction for both.)  And the budget provides flexibility for colleges to use unspent Nurse Educator Salary funding for nursing program equipment.



*       The Washington Student Achievement Council is tasked with convening a task force to propose strategies to eliminate financial and non-financial barriers to low-income students participating in dual credit.  An earlier proviso directing the colleges to provide very detailed financial information about their Running Start funding to the Legislative committees, OFM and OSPI has been changed to say, SBCTC will coordinate with WSAC and the dual credit task force to provide the data.  This change softens the requirement, but a veto request of this section is being considered.



Attached is a table with more detail, including narrative description of each item.

Capital Budget

The 2020 supplemental Capital budget has $89,473,000 in new appropriations from debt-service limited bonds. This includes the following for the community and technical colleges:


  *   $20,000,000 for construction of Spokane Falls Community College's Fine and Applied Arts facility. "The appropriation in this section is subject to the following conditions and limitations:



The appropriation authorizes Spokane Falls to enter into a contract for the construction of this project. It is the intent of the legislature that $17,140,000 will be appropriated for this project in the 2021-2023 fiscal biennium."



We will work with DES and OFM to determine if this means we can bid the entire project as currently designed or if we need to split it into phases.



  *   $275,000 for a predesign of the Everett Community College's Baker Hall replacement facility.

For the community and technical colleges, the budget also:


  *   Authorizes $10,000,000 in local financing for South Seattle College's Student Wellness and Fitness Center.



  *   Removes the $36,642,000 appropriation in the 2019-21 budget for the construction of the Allied Health, Science & Manufacturing facility at Shoreline Community College.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

John Boesenberg, Deputy Executive Director
Business Operations
360-704-4303; jboesenberg at sbctc.edu<mailto:jboesenberg at sbctc.edu>

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