Community College Board OKs Tentative Budget

Los Angeles Community College District officials are hoping that settlement of the state budget this summer will bring extra cash to their nine colleges and help ease looming cuts in classes. Otherwise, the colleges may have to drop as many as 400 classes and 80 part-time teachers next year, according to the district’s tentative spending plan.

The district’s Board of Trustees voted late Wednesday to adopt a $336.5-million tentative budget for the 1991-92 school year. That plan provides for about $3 million less for instruction than in the current year, officials said. A final college budget vote is expected in late August, after Sacramento establishes its level of aid to the schools.

Professors union President Gwen Hill complained that the district should look more closely at administrative costs before cutting classes more than they were this year.