{"id":437,"date":"2008-04-01T05:49:55","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T10:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/2008\/04\/01\/budget-provisos\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T05:49:55","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T10:49:55","slug":"budget-provisos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/budget-provisos\/","title":{"rendered":"budget provisos: prepaid tuition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\">Monday was my first day of the first year of the Finance Committee\u2019s work on the budget. We went over several subcommittee reports and adopted most of the subcommittee\u2019s recommendations on numerous provisos.<br \/>\n<span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><br \/>\nThe tuition pre-payment program shall not accept any new participants. This was a good plan with good intentions. Because of higher ed&#8217;s reckless, unquenchable appetite for spending,\u00a0tuition costs have been soaring through the roof, so it was a fiscally untenable plan. We will not take any new enrollees, yet a current participant won\u2019t have to pay additional out of pocket money for the difference of the tuition escalation.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"absMiddle\" width=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.eocc.edu\/adminoffices\/registrar\/images\/tuition.jpg?resize=253%2C258\" height=\"258\" style=\"width: 208px; height: 193px\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday was my first day of the first year of the Finance Committee\u2019s work on the budget. We went over several subcommittee reports and adopted most of the subcommittee\u2019s recommendations on numerous provisos. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The tuition pre-payment program shall not accept any new participants. This was a good plan with good intentions. Because of higher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-73","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}