Other LanguagesLawfulness of the expenditure of funds or use of facilities by a community college for the purpose of conducting a campaign for the support of or opposition to a political campaign or issue; legal status of certain political science course in practical politics as offered by North Seattle Community College; use by students of work product of such course; constitutional ability of the legislature to regulate or prohibit the conduct of a given course of study by a community college.
In adopting sick leave policies for its professional staff employees under RCW 28B.50.551, a community college district may not provide for the establishment of a "sick leave bank" into which voluntarily participating employees would be allowed to contribute a designated amount of their accumulated sick leave which could thereafter be withdrawn and used by any participants in the plan who have exhausted all of their own accumulated sick leave benefits.
A board of trustees of Yakima Valley College, a community college operating under chapter 28B.50 RCW, has the legal right thereunder to operate certain adult education programs in the Grandview area following expiration of an existing contract with the Grandview district on June 30, 1973.
The state board for community college education does not have the authority, in complying with § 2, chapter 105, (RCW 28B.50.093), to exempt those predischarge education programs which were already being operated by a community college prior to the effective date of the aforesaid 1973 law from any review and determination by the state board that such programs ". . . will not deter from the primary functions of the community college system within this state."
So much of § 11, chapter 269, Laws of 1975, 1st Ex. Sess., as provides that not more than $117,016,320 in general fund moneys shall be expended for the continuation of certain specified salary increases for state employees does not have the effect of prohibiting community college faculty and staff who are not covered by chapter 28B.16 RCW from being granted additional pay raises during the 1975-77 biennium in accordance with RCW 28B.50.140(3).
The board of trustees of a state community college does not have the legal authority under existing law to grant either a partial or total exemption from general tuition fees, operating fees, or services and activity fees to employees of the college who are also attending classes there.
A community college board of trustees does not have the authority to waive tuition, operating fees, and services and activities fees for students who are enrolled in programs designed to enable them to finish their high school education and obtain a high school diploma or certificate unless those students are "needy" as defined in RCW 28B.15.523.