PENDLETON â By a 5-2 vote, the Blue Mountain Community College Board of Education approved reducing the collegeâs staff by 14 positions, including seven layoffs, at a special board meeting on Friday, April 30.
The move represented a slight improvement from a previous projection that anticipated 11 layoffs as a part of 16 staff reductions, but BMCC administrators maintained the cuts needed to happen so the college could stabilize itself as it attempts to recover from a sustained period of declining enrollment exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
BMCC will lay off five supervisory employees that covered areas like grants, student success, admissions and marketing. The college is also laying off a business instructor and a web content specialist.
PENDLETON â By a 5-2 vote, the Blue Mountain Community College Board of Education approved reducing the collegeâs staff by 14 positions, including seven layoffs, at a special board meeting on Friday, April 30.
The move represented a slight improvement from a previous projection that anticipated 11 layoffs as a part of 16 staff reductions, but BMCC administrators maintained that the cuts needed to happen so that the college could stabilize itself as it attempts to recover from a sustained period of declining enrollment exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
BMCC will lay off five supervisory employees that covered areas like grants, student success, admissions and marketing. The college is also laying off a business instructor and a web content specialist.
PENDLETON â The Blue Mountain Community College Board of Education accepted President Dennis Bailey-Fougnier s resignation Thursday, Feb. 11, marking an abrupt end to the brief tenure of the college s top employee.
At a special meeting, board President Jane Hill made a brief statement after the vote, saying that Bailey-Fougnier wrote in his resignation letter that he was leaving the college to focus on his health.
The board then unanimously voted to appoint John Fields, the college s vice president of instruction, as interim president.
A veteran community college administrator, Bailey-Fougnier was hired in March 2019.
PENDLETON â The Blue Mountain Community College Board of Education is seeking to fill vacancies on its Budget Committee for representation from the Pendleton area and Morrow County.
The budget committee holds a series of public meetings to review, discuss, make additions or deletions, and approve the budget that the districtâs budget officer proposes. After finishing its deliberations, the budget committee approves the budget and sends it to the district board of directors for final approval. The committee also specifies the maximum tax rate or amount for any fund imposing a property tax levy.
Budget committee members serve a three-year term, and will have an orientation to the process prior to the Budget Committee meetings that begin April 2021. Interested applicants are to submit a letter briefly outlining their interest and qualifications by Jan. 20, 2021, to the BMCC President’s Office, P.O. Box 100, Pendleton, OR 97801 or by email to President@bluecc.edu.