Danville Area Community College Trustees have approved a new Fiscal Year 2022 operational budget totaling just over $17-million, 500-thousand dollars. College President Stephen Nacco says it contains good news….
{”DACC is going into its next fiscal year with a balanced budget, in spite of whatever has gone on with pandemics and fear. We’re keeping the ship floating and we’re moving ahead into this coming year with the highest of hopes that we can run a regular college and have normal classes – as normal as possible. Yes, we’re all going to have masks, but we’re also going to run full classes.”}
Depending on the fluctuation in the Equalized Assessed Valuation, the DACC tax levy rate is expected to be approximately 61.95 cents (per $100 of equalized assessed value). The current rate is 61.36 cents.
Also during Thursday’s DACC Trustee meeting, President Nacco (shown above) reported the average age of students has dropped considerably….
{”Every year generally here it’s been between 27 and 29 years of age. In the last year our average age dropped to 20. And so, twenty itself for a community college is extremely low. I mean it’s really saying to you — the traditional age students — where are the adult learners?”}
Nacco says DACC is going to have to work to win those older students back….
{”We have to win back their confidence and hope that their family situation allows them to get back on track.”}
The Fall term classes at Danville Area Community College begin on Monday (August 23, 2021).
