COLLEGE LAYOFFS TO REAP HALF SAVINGS EXPECTED.Byline: Sharline Chiang Daily News Staff Writer The Los Angeles Community College District The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) is the community college district serving Los Angeles, California and some of its neighboring cities. In addition to typical college aged students, the LACCD also serves adults of all ages. will save only $1 million - about half of what it projected - by laying off students and other temporary employees, officials said Thursday Thursday: see week. . That development comes after leaders of two unions representing nearly 5,000 instructors and clerks rejected requests from district trustees to negotiate pay deferrals as a way to close a $13 million budget deficit by June June: see month. . As many as 860 student and temporary employees at Pierce Pierce may refer to: Places
The layoffs were projected to save as much as $2 million. But administrators overestimated the savings by miscalculating the work hours of many of the temporary employees. The district expects to save an additional $3 million by freezing all non-payroll expenses and shifting maintenance costs to restricted-fund accounts. So district trustees now must find a new plan to close the multimillion-dollar deficit by June. ``It means that other areas need to be squeezed for additional savings,'' said Lucian Lucian (l  `shən), b. c.120, d. after 180, Greek writer, also called Lucianus, b. Samosata, Syria. In late life he held a government position in Egypt. Carter, LACCD LACCD Los Angeles Community College District director of personnel operations. Campus presidents will decide which employees will be laid off, Carter said. They are expected to try to spare student jobs for those who would otherwise be left facing financial hardship. Of the 860 temporary workers targeted for layoffs, about three-fourths Noun 1. three-fourths - three of four equal parts; "three-fourths of a pound" three-quarters common fraction, simple fraction - the quotient of two integers , or 645, are expected to be students. They include those who work at the district's downtown headquarters. The layoffs only will affect temporary workers covered by unrestricted general funds, mainly students who help out as tutors, computer lab assistants, and clerks in recruitment, admissions and registration offices. The cuts will not affect part-time instructors or students with work-study jobs paid through restricted state and federal grants. Meanwhile, talks of layoffs are sending ripples of worry among students. ``Unfortunately they are doing it in midterms and the students don't need any more stress,'' said Alma Martinez, president of the Associated Students Organization at Mission College in Sylmar. ``A lot of students are afraid of losing their jobs, and whether they can continue going to school,'' she said. |
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