The rally was supposed to take place immediately before the BMCC Board of Education was scheduled to pass a budget that includes significant job cuts, but the state’s public meeting advertising requirements meant the board had to move the vote to Monday. Nevertheless, the rally attracted more than 100 people to the college’s Pendleton campus. The crowd, many of them wearing blue-and-gold “Save BMCC” T-shirts, mingled, heard speeches from educators and union members from across the region, and listened to live music from The Retrenchments, a band name referencing the college’s terminology for layoffs.
