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Budget error blamed for $1.27M overestimate By CHELSEA McDOUGALL
if you go n What: McHenry County College Committee of the Whole n When: 6 p.m. Tuesday n Where: Board Room (A217) at the College, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake
cmcdougall@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – McHenry County College likely will raise tuition to make up for budget shortfalls, falling revenue and more than $1 million that was underbudgeted. The board will discuss an increase Tuesday at its Committee of the Whole meeting. During the budgeting process, an error overestimated the amount the college would collect in local property taxes by $1.27 million. “It was an oversight,” MCC President Vicky Smith said The budget did not factor in PTELL limitations. The Property Tax Extension Limitation Law limits the amount taxing bodies can collect at the Consumer Price Index. Instead, the budget used the college’s levy request, although the college never anticipated it would get the full amount. Other revenue shortfalls mean the college has a $1.4 million deficit, which is made up by the college’s reserve funds. The college’s total operating fund budget is $55.1 million, of which property taxes provide the biggest revenue source. It will consider raising tuition to bridge the gap, and it must do so before summer registration begins in March.
Monica Maschak – mmaschak@shawmedia.com
Carolyn Larson, 22, an intern at Centegra Hospital – McHenry, interacts with co-worker Ryan Tessema in their office Friday. Larson will earn her public health degree from Northern Illinois University when she graduates in May.
Internships an invaluable experience for students, businesses By LAWERENCE SYNETT lsynett@shawmedia.com
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ach day at Centegra Hospital – McHenry is a new adventure for Carolyn Larson – and that’s just the way she likes it. The Northern Illinois University senior is an intern in the nursing administration office at the hospital, her final step in earning a bachelor’s degree this spring in public health with an emphasis on health administration.
The Richmond resident and Prairie Ridge High School graduate is one of a growing number of students who intern, according to two recent studies by the National Association of Colleges and Employees. The ventures give graduates a leg up when finding employment and keeping a job. Larson will complete 360 hours of unpaid training as an intern thanks to a partnership between Centegra Health
See INTERNSHIPS, page A11
internship numbers at a glance • 63 percent of paid interns received at least one job offer after graduation compared with 36 percent of those without internship experience. • 55 percent of students in the Class of 2012 had internship experience, a number that is expected to grow by 8.5 percent next year. • 75 percent of employees hired through a company’s
internship program were kept on after one year compared to 66 percent of those without internship experience. • 62 percent of employees with internship experience were still at the company after five years compared with 48 percent with no prior experience.
Source: National Association of Colleges and Employees
See MCC, page A11
GOP opponents of Hagel nomination say vote should go on By DARLENE SUPERVILLE The Associated Press PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. – Republican opponents of former Sen. Chuck Hagel’s stalled bid to become defense secretary said Sunday that they’ll probably allow his Senate confirmation vote to proceed unless material more damaging to the nominee – and, by extension, the Obama administration – surfaces in the coming week. Critics said the decorated
Vietnam combat veteran is a “radical” unqualified to lead the U.S. military. A top White House official expressed “grave concern” over the delayed confirmation vote, adding that there was nothing to worry about in any disclosures that may yet come. “No, I don’t believe he’s qualified,” Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said of his fellow Republican and former Senate colleague. “But I don’t believe that we should hold up his nomination any further,
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because I think it’s [been] a reasonable amount of time to have questions answered.” McCain and other Republicans have angered President Barack Obama by delaying him from rounding out his second-term national security team, which includes Hagel and John Brennan, the White House counterterrorism adviser who is awaiting confirmation to become CIA director. Former Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry assumed his post as secretary of state at the
beginning of February. Critics contend that Hagel, who snubbed McCain by staying neutral in the 2008 presidential race between McCain and Obama, isn’t supportive enough of U.S. ally Israel and is unreasonably sympathetic to Iran, which has defied international pressure to halt its pursuit of material that could be used to make nuclear weapons. Hagel’s nomination also
See HAGEL, page A11
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TRIBUTE TO BUDDY HOLLY SET A Tribute to Buddy Holly will be at 7 p.m. Saturday and at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Woodstock Opera House, 121 Van Buren St., Woodstock. The tribute will be performed by Johnny Rogers and his band. Tickets, $38 each, are available at 815-338-5300 or www.woodstockoperahouse.com.
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