Pennsylvania Code
Title 22 - EDUCATION
Part X - Board of State College and University Directors
Chapter 155 - PERSONNEL
PROCEDURES FOR MAKING RETRENCHMENT DECISIONS
Section 155.12 - The Budget

(a) The Secretary shall provide each college with "retrenchment targets" to be used for retrenchment planning.

(b) The retrenchment targets shall relate to the anticipated costs and anticipated funding levels at each college during the 1975-1976 fiscal year. Current estimates indicate that each college will incur a deficit during that fiscal period. It shall further be assumed that the deficit at each college will recur, at the same level, in fiscal year 1976-1977.

(c) Through the retrenchment planning process covered by the guidelines, each college shall insure that the expenditures throughout fiscal 1976-1977 will be at a level that will eliminate the deficit projected in the budget assumptions. Expenditures and revenues at each college shall be in full balance during 1976-1977.

(d) The assumptions upon which the 1975-1976 budget forecasts shall be based will include at least these elements: stable enrollments; a tuition increase in 1975-1976; no change in Federal funding; self-supporting food services; probable future levels of state appropriations, augmentations, and supplemental allocations; restoration of consumable inventories to minimally "safe" levels; the need for payment of unemployment compensation; an arbitrarily assigned percentage of salary increase projection (This percentage will merely "fill a gap" in the forecasts and shall not be considered in any manner as being Commonwealth policy. Should the Commonwealth actually pay a higher rate of salary than appears in these assumptions, then the level of proposed retrenchments will rise; if the actual rate of salary increase is lower than shown, then the expected level of retrenchments will be reduced). A 12-month base will be used for all forecasts. Retrenchment targets have been calculated on the proportion of college expenditures to the total expenditures of the system.

(e) The retrenchment targets will also honor the continuing commitment for additional resources to support the desegregation plan in the state college system.

(f) The fiscal condition of a college will determine the absolute number of positions to be retrenched at that college.

(g) Budget provisions must be made at each college for the payment of unemployment compensation which shall be a charge made directly against the college budget as long as such payments continue as a Commonwealth obligation.