The Flint Hills Technical College Board of Trustees has approved the college’s fiscal year 2022 budget.
The board gave unanimous approval at their monthly meeting Monday afternoon. The total budget comes in right around $7.6 million which is roughly $50,000 less than fiscal year 2021 according to Vice President of Business Services Nancy Thompson.
Thompson says the only major adjustment to the budget was a reduction in expenditures for the coming year. She says the college will be utilizing CARES Act funding to offset that decrease.
Thompson says CARES Act and other state and federal funding have been a major boost for the college over the past year and will continue to be so in the coming year.
In other business, the board approved the master agreement for the 2021-22 school year. Again, there was very little changed from the previous year according to College Human Resources Director Sandy Weeks. She says the only adjustment of note was a modest salary increase for all staff.
According to Weeks, the college wanted to give a larger increase to reward the staff for their diligent work, especially over the past year with COVID in the picture. She says there is a possibility the college could approve another one percent increase in the coming year.
In addition to these items the board also approved the election of officers and received a Higher Learning Institution Peer Reviewer information update from incoming college president Dr. Caron Daugherty.
The FHTC Board of Trustees will reconvene for its monthly meeting in July.
