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EICC Budget

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With the deadline just a month away, trustees of the Eastern Iowa Community Colleges have approved a budget for next year. 

Spokesman Alan Campbell says the 51 million dollar plan adopted last night is about a 2 per cent increase over the current year, mainly due to the rising cost of utilities, maintenance, and other basic expenses. One missing piece is tuition - next year's rate has not yet been set.
In-state students at the three campuses in Muscatine, Clinton, and the Quad Cities currently pay 137 dollars per credit hour. And Campbell expects that will go up slightly once the state budget is finalized.

He says community colleges in Iowa currently rely on tuition for about half of their budgets, 40 per cent comes from the state, 6 per cent from property taxes, and the rest from various federal grants and other sources. 

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