1. Conquering Challenges
by
Creating Opportunities
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4. Unemployment
Trends
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5. MO General Revenue
Collections
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6. Projected State Aid
Cuts
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7. MCC Projected
Budget Deficits
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8. MCC Expense
Breakdowns
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9. Current Employer Costs 2002 2010 Percent Change
Medical $3,272,234 $6,538,615 100%
PSRS/PEERS $3,816,605 $6,404,279 68%
Other* $4,623,775 $5,393,419 17%
Total $11,712,614 $18,336,313 57%
Fringe Benefit
Increases
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10. Early Retirement
Costs
Early Retirement Costs 2002 2010 Percent Change
Incentive Payment $353,259 $747,548 112%
Retiree Insurance Benefit $476,124 $1,147,656 141%
Net Early Retiree Premium Pay $825,925 $1,287,879 56%
Total $1,655,308 $3,183,083 92%
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11. Projected Retirement
Liability
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12. MCC Budget 101
• Unexpended Plant Fund = our savings account
• Operating Budget = our pay check
• Bond Debt = our mortgage
• Bond Debt is paid by Unexpended Plant Fund
+ Operating Budget
• Last FY, we paid our debt without digging into
reserves to create a one year cushion before
the BIG shoe falls.
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13. Organizational Culture
• Culture is more important than strategy.
• Culture underlies an organization’s ability to
adapt.
• A culture of uncertainty and resistance
paralyzes innovation.
• Organizational culture can enable or destroy
the ability to change.
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14. Culture Change
• Breaking down silos
• A more interactive Cabinet
• A better informed Budget Response Team
• New PRP “proof-of-concept”
• Faculty liaison
• Regular meetings with governance leaders
• Officer group meetings on campuses
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15. Tough Decisions for the
Future
• PERSONNEL COSTS HAVE RISEN TO ALMOST
80% OF THE TOTAL BUDGET:
– Rising costs of health benefits
– Rising costs of current early retirement benefits
– Full-time v. part-time, what’s the right ratio?
• WE WILL WORK TOGETHER TO FIND THE
RIGHT ANSWERS.
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16. Opportunities
• Institute for Workforce Innovation
• Leasing
• Grants
• Auxiliary Services
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17. Opportunities (cont.)
• Annexation
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School District Projected Annual Net Fiscal
Impact
St. Joseph $2,178,011
Liberty $1,164,035
Platte County R-III $773,348
Raymore-Peculiar
R-III
$634,096
Total $4,749,490

18. Difficulty
Creates Opportunity
Albert Einstein proposed 3 rules of work:
• Out of clutter, find simplicity
• From discord, find harmony
• In the middle of difficulty lies
opportunity
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19. Adaptability Creates
Opportunity
“It is not the strongest of the species
that survives, nor the most
intelligent, but rather the one most
adaptable to change.”
- Charles Darwin
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20. Academic
Opportunities
• Expansion of Online Learning – A Virtual MCC
Campus
• In 1992, Smith Corona was a $500 million
corporation. Its CEO stated, “Many people
believe that the typewriter and word-
processor is a buggy-whip industry, which is
far from true. There is still a strong market for
our products in the U.S. and the world.”
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21. Academic
Opportunities
• A culture of assessment with an eye for
improvement
• A district-wide Developmental Education
effort
• “Stackable Credentials”
• Articulation
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22. Impediments to
Innovation
In 2006, the Boston Consulting Group found the
four biggest impediments to innovation to be:
• Lengthy Development
• Lack of Coordination
• Risk-Averse Culture
• Limited Customer Insight
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23. Colin Powell
“Being responsible sometimes means [ticking]
people off. Good leadership involves
responsibility to the welfare of the group,
which means that some people will get angry
at your actions and decisions. It’s inevitable, if
you’re honorable.”
I will pursue the welfare of MCC. Mark James
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24. “Creating
Opportunities”
I will create opportunities
Will you?
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