Community College Board Seeks Site Study By County Planners

The trustees of the Washtenaw County community college approved arrangements for obtaining professional planning advice, discussed financing and naming the college, and received the first offer to start a scholarship fund at last night's formal board session.
Five trustees, Samuel T. Harmon Jr., Richard C. Creal, Evart W. Ardis, Ralph C. Wenrich, and Kenneth L. Yourd, were present for the 3 1/2 hour meeting. Trustee Edward Adams Jr. is on vacation.
The Washtenaw County Metropolitan Planning Commission will be asked tonight to allow its staff to conduct a one-month site analysis study for the college board.
The planners would study 10 geographical areas with common characteristics and would not pinpoint particular parcels of land within these areas. Among the considerations will be availability of 200 to 300 acres of land in the area at market prices, zoning and land use, physical characteristics, economic factors including availability of public services and access roads, and educational adaptability.
The areas scheduled for intensive analysis are:
1) North of the Huron River, east of US-23, west of LeForge Rd. and south of M-14 and Ford Rd.;
2) South of the Huron Rivcr; east of US-23, and north 'of. f Washtenaw Ave.:
3) South of Washtenaw. Ave.;r east of US-23, and n. o r t h. of US-12.;
4) South of 1-94, west, of XJS23, east of Ann Arbor-Saline Rd., and north of Textile Rd.;
5) South of Liberty Ave. west of Ann Arbor-Saline. Rd.. !and east of Zeeb Rd.;
6) North of Liberty Mvf.; south of Ann Arbor-Dexter Rd; and east of Zeeb Rd.;
7) North of Ann Arbor-Dexter Rd., south of the Huron Rivej, and east of Zeeb Rd.;
8) North of the Huron River, west of US-23, east of Zeeb RïL and south of Joy Rd.;
9) East of US-23, south ó& : Warren Rd., north of M-14, and west of Dixboro Rd. ;
10) North of the Huron River. south of M-14, and west of US-23.
The trustees also agreed to call on a four-member team of community college authorities through the University of Michigan Bureau of School Services, and a similar team at Eastern Michigan University, for consultation as needed. Dr. Raymond Young, director of the citizens study which indicated need for a college here, will head the U-M team, and Dr. Carl R. Anderson, president of the County Board of Education, will head the EMU group.
The advisability of approving a summer tax collection in the cities of Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, and Saline was discussed at length last night. A new law, as yet unused, provides that the college board may ask cities to collect the college tax in July with their city tax rather than in December with the county and school taxes. The townships which have only the December levy would collect for the college then.
Harmon said that the $18,000 or $27,000 which the college may be able to borrow in anticipation of taxes "will not go far toward paying staff salaries and expenses to December." He said funds will be needed to pay administrators, architects fees, an option on land, and attorney fees.
Ardis questioned "The propriety of taxing some citizens before others," and said because some persons would have the possibility of earning interest on their money for six months longer than others, it would amount to unequal taxation.
The board plans to meet with tax collecting officials b e f o r e making its decisión on the summer levy. A decisión is expected in April.
Names suggested by Yourd last night were Washtenaw County Community College, Washtenaw Communily College, and Huron Valley Community College.
The board received its first offer to start a scholarship fund from the Ypsilanti Junior Chamber of Commerce. That organization wishes to offer $1,166.56 from a Hugo Fenker Memorial Fund to provide schl ship aid for students from iY" lanti and Ypsilanti Tow.s'PThe offer will be accept' soon as the board esta.lsnes procedures for accepting tls.
Robert W. Harrington cnauImari of the citizens clUee which campaigned for oter ■ v iproval of the colleg, ,tuin over $2,000 remainin, m l ■ campaign fund to e boaro This also will Proba3ly be use for scholarships.
Ardis reported that he has received four Valid applwat for the college presidency ? that a job description has been sent out to numerous persons asking them to recommend outstanding candidates. The board will begin screening candidates af er May 1.
Creal presented a list of 25 architectural firms, five of whom are from out of the state, as possible designers for the college. Harmon and Wenrich were designated to, met informally this week with acommiüee of the Washtenaw County School Administrators Association to discuss the possibility of the community college bc the Area Vocational Center for this county. Board members indicated that they will not be ready to commit themselves until they start planning technical curriculum.
A letter from the Cleary Colege board inviting the community college trustees to a meeting to discuss "mutual concerns" will be received soon, according to Ardis.