The ICCTA Board of Representatives took the following actions at its Nov. 9, 2002, meeting at the Swissotel in Chicago, Illinois:

• Endorsed the Illinois Community College Board’s FY 2004 operating budget request, which proposes a systemwide 6.9 percent increase over the FY 2003 budget;
  
  
• Encouraged trustees to submit suggestions for ICCTA’s 2003 legislative agenda, which the Board of Representatives will adopt in January 2003;
  
  
• Recommended that trustees and presidents make their hotel reservations early for ICCTA’s February 11-12, 2003 Fly-In in Washington, D.C.;
  
  
• Heard that ICCTA’s January seminar will be a "Legal Update" on trends in college foundations and collective bargaining;
  
  
• Discussed what the Trustees Association’s role might be in assisting colleges with presidential searches;
  
  
• Learned that only two of nine community college referenda on the Nov. 5 ballot were successful;
  
  
• Reviewed the implications of the November 2002 general election, which resulted in Democratic control of the Illinois General Assembly and the executive branch of Illinois government; and
  
  
• Were informed that the state of Illinois now faces a $2.5 billion shortfall in current year revenue, and that Gov. George Ryan is expected to announce a 2 percent rollback in FY03 state funding. Education may be spared from this round of budget cuts. ICCB is recommending that colleges hold back 3 - 5 percent of their current budget in case of future budget cuts.
  

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