By JEANETTE WOLFBERG
HUDSON—The Columbia County Board of Supervisors approved the 2024-25 Columbia-Greene Community College (C-GCC) operating budget, at its monthly full board meeting August 14. The total budget for 2024-25 is $20.3 million, $172,000 (.9%) more than last year’s budget of $20.1 million. Tuition is to be $2,700 per semester for full time students, $225 per credit hour for part time students.
The included table shows the projected revenues and expenditures in the 2024-25 budget, compared with those in 2023-24. Between those years, despite little change in the total expenditures, dramatic changes are budgeted for several categories. Spending on equipment –which includes furniture, machinery, and computer hardware–more than tripled. Contractual Professional Expenses are down by two-thirds, a drop of more than a million. But Other Contractual Expenses are up 33%, and Service and Maintenance is up 24%. Retirement Expenditures are up 25%, and there is a slight drop in expenditures for Salaries and Employee Insurance. Messages to C-GCC asking for explanations were not answered by press time.
The drop in Contractual Professional Expenses, after a two year surge, brings them back closer to the $510 they were in 2021-22. In 2022-23 they jumped to $1.68 million, for 2024-24 stayed close at almost $1.7 million, and for 2024-25 fell to $565,000.
COLUMBIA GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE BUDGET SUMMARY
2024-25 vs 2023-24
| 2024-25 | 2023-24 | ||||||||||||
| $ | % | $ | % | %Change | |||||||||
| REVENUE | |||||||||||||
| Student Charges | 5,785,486 | 28.5 | 5,395,065 | 26.8 | 7.2 | ||||||||
| Regular Tuition | 5,070,075 | 25.0 | 4,760,525 | 23.7 | 6.5 | ||||||||
| Continuing Ed Tuition | 200,000 | 175,000 | |||||||||||
| Out of State Tuition | 60,000 | 40,000 | |||||||||||
| Non-Resident Charges | 60,000 | 50,000 | |||||||||||
| Student Fees | 395,411 | 369,540 | |||||||||||
| State Operating Aid | 2,825,053 | 13.9 | 2,829,326 | 14.1 | -0.2 | ||||||||
| Columbia County’s Contribution | 3,403,896 | 16.8 | 3.4 million | ||||||||||
| Greene County’s Contribution | 3,044,454 | 15.0 | 3.0 million | ||||||||||
| Charges to Other Counties | 2,404,904 | 11.9 | 2,286,900 | 11.4 | 5.2 | ||||||||
| Grants, Gifts, & Contracts | 0 | 0.0 | 63,000 | 0.3 | |||||||||
| Appropriated Fund Balance | 2,653,490 | 13.1 | 2,989,441 | 14.9 | -11.2 | ||||||||
| Other | 175,000 | 0.9 | 108,000 | 0.5 | 62.0 | ||||||||
| TOTAL | 20,292,283 | 100 | 20,120,082 | 100 | 0.9 | ||||||||
| EXPENSES | |||||||||||||
| Salaries | 9,730,677 | 48.0 | 9,791,209 | 48.7 | -0.6 | ||||||||
| Employee Medical & Life Insurance | 3,103,329 | 15.3 | 3,219,236 | 16.0 | -3.6 | ||||||||
| Retirements | 1,470,652 | 7.2 | 1,174,724 | 5.8 | 25.2 | ||||||||
| Other Employee Benefits | 880,240 | 4.3 | 917,513 | 4.6 | -4.1 | ||||||||
| Equipment | 685,183 | 3.4 | 209,363 | 1.0 | 227.3 | ||||||||
| Service & Maintenance | 1,607,456 | 7.9 | 1,291,843 | 6.4 | 24.4 | ||||||||
| Electricity and Fuel Oil | 511,000 | 2.5 | 511,000 | 2.5 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| Contractual Professional Expenses | 565,213 | 2.8 | 1,695,478 | 8.4 | -66.7 | ||||||||
| Other Contractual Expenses | 1,738,533 | 8.6 | 1,309,716 | 6.5 | 32.7 | ||||||||
| TOTAL | 20,292,283 | 100 | 20,120,082 | 100 | 0.9 | ||||||||
