$5.3 Million Wcc Budget Is Approved By Trustees

The Washtenaw Community College Board of Trustees last night adopted a final budget of $5,346,416 for the 1971-72 fiscal year - up 24.6 per cent over last year. The revised budget, which is balanced, is essentially the same as the tentative budget adopted last June. The $1,056,758 increase over the previous year represents mostly funds brought in by the one-mill increase voted last year. Sstate aid, it was learned, amounts to $1,687,600, a $323.375 increase over last year (about 23.7 per cent). Earlier, WCC officials had forecast state aid amounting to $1,489,645. The college budget is based on an enrollment of 72,000 credit hours, or about 3,800 students. Revenues from student fees total $1,054,621. Revenues from local taxes total $2,377,103, an increase of $941,826 or 65.6 per cent over last year. Expenditures for instruction amount to $2,954,491, up $243,067 or 8.9 per cent over last year. In other action, the board accepted with thanks the following gifts to the college: - A Spirostat photometric recording spirometer valued at $675 from E. Norman Peterson of Altegit and Company, New York. The instrument will be used by students in the Inhalation Therapy Program to test pulmonary functioning. - An amount of $1,500 from the Ann Arbor Trust Company for the Pickerill Scholarship Fund. Three WCC students will be awarded $500 each. - A total of $500 from the Alvin M. Bentley Foundation of Owosso to provide a scholarship for a deserving student. - An amount of $1,500 from Ruth Bennett to establish the Oliver Bennett Memorial Scholarship Fund in memory of her son, a member of last year's basketball team who died recently of an illness. . .The trustees received a letter from Donald L. Sims, chairman of the Black Faculty, expressing concern that the administration's reorganization plan "excludes blacks from higher positions" and urging more hiring of blacks.