Funding is always an issue for Yavapai College.
College President Penny Wills said that the state of Arizona currently provides around 1 percent of the school’s funding.
“The state has passed off [community college funding] to the counties,” Wills said. “I’m not pleased with that but that’s the reality.”
Wills said that the college is looking at increasing tuition by $3 per credit hour. Wills said tuition was raised by $12 a credit hour a few years ago.
Property tax revenue is another way the college could look to secure its funding.
Wills said that the college could legally ask for a 10 percent property tax increase but that if the college goes the tax route, Wills said that it would only ask for a 2 percent increase.
To read the full story, see the Wednesday, March 11, edition of the Cottonwood Journal Extra.
