In sharp contrast to the raucous meeting last week where audience members scuffled with Pasadena City College police and shouted at school officials, on Wednesday the college board of trustees adopted a budget without so much as a jeer, despite cutting nearly 600 of the school's 4,800 classes. The $111-million budget includes $4-million worth of cuts for part-time teachers and other hourly employees while projecting that a controversial change to campus scheduling will save another $589,000. The board voted at an Aug. 29 meeting to cancel the school's short winter session in favor of an earlier start for the spring semester and an expanded summer term. That decision prompted objections from leaders of PCC's faculty union and a number of students, who argued the college should tap its reserves and cut other spending in order to preserve winter classes.
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