NCCCFA Legislative Alert
House Bill Would Raise CC Faculty and Staff Salaries Substantially
Recently introduced House Bill 81 would raise community college faculty and staff salaries by 10.25 percent. This percentage is in line with the NCCCS budget request approved by the State Board of Community Colleges and submitted to the legislature this year.
The bill would also raise the minimum faculty salaries by the same percentage.
You can see House Bill 81 at http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/House/HTML/H81v1.html.
The primary sponsors of House Bill 81 are Representatives Jean Farmer-Butterfield, Marian N. McLawhorn, and Joe Tolson, all long-time supporters of community colleges.
Please write or call these representatives to thank them for their sponsorship of this bill. Contact information for each of them is below.
Also, please contact your representative and ask him or her to support House Bill 81. We will need a lot of legislators’ support to get this bill incorporated into the final budget bill this year.
If you are unsure who your representative is, go to http://www.ncleg.net/GIS/Representation/Who_Represents_Me/Who_Represents_Me.html.
To determine who represents you, you will need your zip code plus the 4-digit extension. The 4-digit extension is on your N. C. Driver’s License.
Once you’ve got your representative’s name, go to the General Assembly House of Representatives page http://www.ncleg.net/House/House.html , click on Member Look Up, scroll down to your representative’s name, and hit Go. You will be taken to your representative’s page, which will have the representative’s contact information.
IMPORTANT: Use your HOME computer, NOT your OFFICE computer, to contact legislators. It is illegal to use state resources, including state-owned computers, to lobby legislators.
Primary Sponsors of House Bill 81
Representative Jean Farmer-Butterfield (Edgecombe, Wilson Counties)
611 Legislative Office Building, Raleigh, NC 27603-5925
919-733-5898
Jeanf@ncleg.net
Representative Marian N. McLawhorn ( Pitt County)
1217 Legislative Building, Raleigh, NC 27601-1096
919-733-5757
Marianm@ncleg.net
Representative Joe Tolson (Edgecombe, Wilson Counties)
402 Legislative Office Building, Raleigh, NC 27603-5925
919-715-3024
Joet@ncleg.net
If you are a constituent of any of the following co-sponsors of House Bill 81, please thank your representative. Be sure to note that you are a constituent. Messages from constituents are particularly meaningful to legislators.
Co-Sponsors of House Bill 81
Representatives Adams, Alexander, Blackwood, Bordsen, Boylan, Brubaker, Cleveland, Cole, Dockham, England, Faison, Frye, Glazier, Goforth, Harrison, Howard, Justice, Langdon, Lewis, Luebke, McGee, Pate, Rapp, Ray, Saunders, Setzer, Tarleton, Tucker, Underhill, Walend, E. Warren, Weiss, Williams, Womble, and Wray.
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