“At last night’s Board of Trustee’s meeting, Trustee Bill Kilquist said he would no longer vote for approval of college expenditures as long as the college continued to spend “so much money on travel and pizza.” He said he wanted one person to ultimately approve travel so there was accountability.
As the President, I agreed to accept that role. Until further notice, all out-of-state travel must be approved by the President.
I will be studying the pizza data to determine if our consumption merits a new policy.”
People are losing their jobs and Trustee Kilquist is worried about pizza? It is that lack of vision and insight that helped get JALC into this mess in the first place. Just what higher education needs – pizza data!
Trustee Kilquist worried about Pizza? Pretty funny when a few years back he was trying to put bathrooms in the girls softball dugouts because they had so far to walk to get to present structure at the fields...maybe 200 yards at the most. All about Kilquist-a LEGEND IN HIS OWN TIME IN HIS OWN MIND!
ReplyDeleteIt's great they've sussed out the true culprit -pizza -behind this budgetary fiasco. I was worried they would go after the capable administrative leaders of JALC who have bravely refused calls for pay cuts to their well-deserved salaries. The capable administrators are assuredly following the firm example of Chairman Rendleman, whose absence in the forthcoming candidates' forum illustrates his unfailing commitment to open dialogue and transparency in the management of college business.
ReplyDeleteI would think that Mr. Kilquist (showing him the respect that he really doesn't deserve) would take a look at the expenditures alright and should look very closely at the salaries of the TOP HEAVY CHIEFS on the logan staff. They cut from athletics, they cut educational spending but just when have they eliminated some of those "cushy" positions created when the school had money? Time to chop the payroll of administration and assistants. The big white collar people need to roll up their sleeves and give too. APPLY SOME OF those cuts to the Chiefs-not the Indians and the student activities!
ReplyDeleteI own a business. I am starting it with a list of programs which i want to instill and put down the cost factors involved in those programs..I build from the bottom up and i find out if my budget meets my desires...LOGAN NEEDS TO START ALL OVER AND START FROM THE BOTTOM UP...see whats left and then fill in those administrative positions.. Only way you are going to level the playing field as far as $... KNOW WHAT REVENUE you have available and start all over. You will then realize the "costs" that have to be removed! I am not a "cpa or accountant" but this is common sense..If you don't have the cash...quit nit picking certain areas...start all over!
ReplyDeleteLogan won't start over. The entrenched self-serving arrogance of those in charge is simply too great. They continue to squander every opportunity to demonstrate the committed leadership the college so desperately needs. Instead, the only commitment the "main players" appear committed to is cashing in their undeserved paychecks and ensuring their relatives and friends have choice college positions into the next generation. It is sad, as it need not be this way.
Deletelooks like to me that the bean counter VP needs to be held accountable on the strategy to do a budget..which isn't even done for 2016 or at least not known to the public. Maybe it is time for the ex Southeastern Il College employee who resides in Harrisburg and not even paying taxes to JALC to resign or retire like the other VP..another way for the BOT to save money
ReplyDeleteDid the basketball team get approval from Mr Kilquist to travel to Hutchinson Kansas--it is out of state and he won't approve expenditures...on Pizza...bet those kids get Pizza out there in out of state travel...budget had already been set for any teams that go to nationals...so hard to object to that.
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