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An Ordinance of the County of Allegheny, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, amending and supplementing the Allegheny County Code of Ordinances, Division 4, entitled "Finances," through the creation of a new Article IX, entitled "Community College of Allegheny County Tuition Stabilization," in order to provide a mechanism for stabilizing and/or reducing student tuitions at the Community College of Allegheny County.
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WHEREAS, since its opening in September 1966, the mission of the Community College of Allegheny County has been to provide affordable access to quality education, and offer a dynamic, diverse and supportive learning environment that prepares the region's residents for academic, professional, and personal success in our changing global society; and
WHEREAS, the College lists one of its enduring goals as "...maintain[ing] affordability and promot[ing] student learning by effective use and allocation of human, physical, technological and fiscal resources"; and
WHEREAS, increasing costs and an environment in which funding has become more difficult to secure has rendered it increasingly difficult for the College to keep its tuitions as low as possible in order to allow access to its services by as many individuals as possible; and
WHEREAS, the Council deems it advisable to create a formalized means of providing funding to the College for the express purpose of stabilizing and/or reducing student tuitions;
The Council of the County of Allegheny hereby enacts as follows:
SECTION 1. Amendment of the Code
The Allegheny County Code of Ordinances, Division 4, entitled "Finances," is herby amended and supplemented through the creation of a new Article IX, entitled "Community College of Allegheny County Tuition Stabilization," and consisting of the following provisions:
Article IX
Community College of Allegheny County Tuition Stabilization
§500-01. Community College of Allegheny County Tuition Stabilization.
Beginning in Fiscal Year 2009 and in each fiscal year thereafter, Allegheny County Council shall make an annual appropriation to the Community College for the sole purpose of reducing or stabilizing tuitions for students enrolled at the College. In each fiscal year, the Council shall appropriate one dollar for every two dollars raised for the sole purpose of stabilizing or reducing tuitions by the College or affiliated entity, including but not limited to the Community College of Allegheny County Educational Foundation. In no year shall Council appropriate greater than $1 million to the College for tuition stabilization or reduction.
SECTION 2. Severability
If any provision of this Ordinance shall be determined to be unlawful, invalid, void or unenforceable, then that provision shall be considered severable from the remaining provisions of this Ordinance which shall be in full force and effect.