LCC Faculty Colleagues,

Please find below and attached essential information about the proposed FY26 budget. The Budget Committee, comprised of Board of Education members and their 7 community member appointees, will be meeting again today at 5 p.m. in the Boardroom.

In particular, please note the following.

It is entirely possible to balance the budget in a more reasonable, realistic, accurate manner, which the Administration, including all of the highest ranking administrator positions, and all stakeholder groups did collaboratively and with unanimous agreement just two weeks prior to the May 7 release of the dramatically changed budget.

Unfortunately, the Administration has already provided notice yesterday of one faculty retrenchment to take effect in Winter 2026 and appears to be implementing one partial retrenchment for next year as well. This is not necessary and is the direct result of the Administration adding excess expenditures, excess expense estimates and newly created positions as well as by making significant other changes to the proposed budget in a two week period prior to May 7, which create a budget that would use $3.1M in reserves, rather than presenting a balanced budget for the Board and Budget Committee to consider.

In solidarity,

Adrienne

Forecast Modeling Tool–FY25-29 a/o 05/01/25 BDS