Solano Community College cancels its summer session - RICHARD BAMMER, the Reporter

Seeking to relieve some fiscal pressure before the start of fall classes, Solano Community College leaders on Friday canceled the summer session at its four campuses, shaving $1 million from the 2012-13 budget. "It's painful to have to do this," Jowel Laguerre, the Fairfield-based college's superintendent-president, said Friday afternoon, shortly after issuing a press release. Alluding to the prospect of getting rosier financial reports from the state Department of Finance, he said, "The thinking was it's going to get better and it hasn't." The decision, which top college staff members made late Thursday before making it public Friday, accomplishes several things, Laguerre noted.