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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 Chapter 491, entitled "Community College of Allegheny County Appropriations," in order to provide a mechanism for adjusting the County's annual budgetary appropriation to the Community College of Allegheny County in order to keep pace with rising inflationary costs.
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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 maintaining its service levels while ensuring that as many individuals as possible have access to those services; and
WHEREAS, student tuitions at the Community College can pay for no more than one third of the College's annual operating costs, pursuant to the terms of the Pennsylvania Public School Code of 1949, 24 P.S. §19-1908-A; and
WHEREAS, Allegheny County, as the sponsor of the Community College of Allegheny County, was obligated to create a financial management plan for the College, under which the County must appropriate or provide funding equal to the College's total operating costs, less student tuition revenues and reimbursements provided by the Commonwealth, pursuant to the terms of the Public School Code, 24 P.S. §19-1903-A(a); and
WHEREAS, while t...
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