College of Lake County's proposed budget on display in Grayslake

College of Lake County's proposed $102.8 million operating budget for Fiscal Year 2016 is on public display in the finance department, Room A107, at the Grayslake campus. CLC trustees will hold a public hearing on the budget at 6 p.m. June 23 in Room A206, and they will vote on the FY 2016 budget after the hearing. The proposed budget represents a 1.6 percent increase over the FY 2015 budget of $101.2 million. According to David Agazzi, vice president for administrative affairs, the budget is based on a 2.25 percent decline in state funding, modest increases in property taxes and an $8 per credit hour increase in tuition and fees. On the expenditure side, the budget contains a 1.4 percent increase in expenditures, including a 5.5 percent increase in health insurance costs and a 4 percent decrease in non-personnel expenditures.