The Butte College Health, Kinesiology, and Athletics Department offers quality education within a student-centered environment that provides comprehensive instruction through various modalities. The curriculum incorporates innovative teaching methods and flexible scheduling that foster critical thinking and support the needs of our diverse student population. The uniqueness of our integrative discipline is that we work to empower students to develop healthy behaviors, engage in physical activity, and promote healthy lifelong modifications, which can enhance their quality of life.
The Butte College Athletics Department offers a comprehensive, two year program consisting of 13 sports; 7 women�s and 6 men�s. They include: WOMEN�S MEN�S Track and Field Track and Field Cross Country Cross Country Basketball Basketball Softball Baseball Volleyball Football Soccer Soccer Golf This program allows student-athletes to compete in various conferences and be recruited by four-year institutions.
Athletic Events
These funds were used to offset some of the travel costs for the athletic teams.
Game Official Fees
These funds supported the payment of our officials fees for our 13 athletic sports offerings.
Program Review recommendations:
The department is still working on the following reccomendations:1) Address safety concerns relative to Practice, Game and Educational Fields/Courts: as mentioned before the tack is going to be updated sometime in the Spring 12016 semester. The fields have continued to be seeded, fertilized, aerating, and pest control but is still coming out of the department's budget instead of the districts as mentioned. The golf facility, upper and lower tennis courts, football press box have not been addressed.
2) Upgrade and Refurbish Facilities: To my knowledge there has been no updates on GYM 110/111 HVAC update and the need to have separate thermostats, automatic bleachers for the Gym, replace accordion door for GYM 113/114, and air conditioning in the men's locker room. We are on track to paint the Gymnasium the summer of 2016.
3) Update Technology: Gym 110/111 technology update has been and still is in the Unit plan and I know Andrea Mox has the update on her list, but no mention of when this will take place. The also has been no updates on the Wi-fi strength, currently the classroom cannot support student Wi-fi activity during a class session. The light switch modalities have been switch to variable lighting.
4) Hire Full-Time Faculty: The department continues to present the need to add another Full-Time Faculty member as recommended.
5) Develop and Enhance the Curriculum: The department is currently in the process of looking to change the A.A. degree and is currently offering an AA-t degree. We are also in the process of looking to add a Personal training certification and Sport Medicine Certification.
6) Obtain Additional Funding Sources: The department continues to explore how to raise additional funding as far as fundraising and grants. However, this requires additional workload on an already time constraint staff. The recommendation is from the Validation team is the college needs to allocate more resources into the Health, Kinesiology, and Athletics budget to comply with safety issues and be ADA compliance.
The Athletic Department will continue to find revenue streams to upgrade outdated facilities and support the student athletes by enhancing our travel and equipment budgets.
Strategy 1 - Upgrade Athletic Facilities
The Athletics Department will continue to encourage the district to upgrade the facilities to provide a safe and healthy experience for our student-athletes. In order to prevent liability to the district, many of the facilities are in need of repair or replacement. The department will collaborate with the Butte College Foundation, Facilities, Planning & Management, as well as the community for its upgrades.
The department will monitor all of our athletic offerings, within the scope of our budget plan, to ensure the demands of the community are being served.
This strategy mirrors the recommendations of our Program Review Validation Team (2006) as well as Butte College�s Educational Master Plan Priorities #2- �Increase the Capacity and Capability of Faculty and Staff,���and #4- �Build New and Update Existing Facilities.�
Strategy 2 - Program Support
Increase administrative support staff from level 1 to level 3.
Increase Men's Soccer budget by $1,500 to continue to offer a quality program.
To allow the position to further help out our current Director of Athletics, Health and Kinesiology with the endless amount of paperwork and other important task.
To maintain the quality of the Men's Soccer program, funds are needed to continue operating the program.
Strategy 3 - Officials Fees
Officials are needed to support our 13 athletic programs. These budgets need to be augmented due to the increased costs over the last ten years and these budgets haven't been adjusted to account for inflation.
The fees for game officials has increased for every sport. We would like this budget augmented as on-going requirements.
Strategy 4 - Travel Budget Augmentation
Travel Expenses for 13 athletic teams.
Butte currently offers 13 Intercollegiate athletic teams. The cost of meals and lodging have increased substantially for travel. This augmentation will offset our current budget deficient.
Strategy 5 - Sand Volleyball
Sand Volleyball is an emerging sport in the state of California. Adding this sport to our offerings would provide additional FTES to the college. It would also allow more opportunities for women to compete in our intercollegiate atheltic program.
Implementing a Women's Sand Volleyball Intercollegiate Athletic team would provide 15 to 20 additional opportunities for female athletes which would be a Title IX benefit to the college. This is a fast emerging sport within local and state conferences. Butte College will fall behind other competitive volleyball programs if we do not add this up and coming sport.
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Century Club...........................................................7,500
Student Activities...................................................... 5,000
Foundation Fundraising Accounts............................... 40,000
| Original Priority | Program, Unit, Area | Resource Type | Account Number | Object Code | One Time Augment | Ongoing Augment |
| Description | Supporting Rationale | Potential Alternative Funding Sources | Prioritization Criteria | |||
| 1 | Athletics | Operating Expenses | 11.000.618.1.696001. | 55200 | $0.00 | $15,000.00 |
| Augment game officials budget | The fees for game officials has increased for every sport. We would like this budget augmented as on-going requirements. |
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| 2 | Athletics | Operating Expenses | 110006181696001 | 55200 | $0.00 | $15,000.00 |
| Travel Budget | Butte currently offers 13 Intercollegiate athletic teams. The cost of meals and lodging have increased substantially for travel. This augmentation will offset our current budget deficient. |
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| 3 | Athletics | Personnel | $0.00 | $10,000.00 | ||
| Elevating an Administrative Assistant I position to Administrative Assistant III position | By elevating this position it would expand the job description in order to perform duties that would enable the position to stay within their scope of duties. It would also allow this position to elevate duties from an already over burdened Administrative assistant to the the Associate Dean in our department. |
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| 4 | Athletics | Operating Expenses | $0.00 | $25,260.00 | ||
| Implement Women's sand Volleyball Program | Implementing a Women's Sand Volleyball Intercollegiate Athletic team would provide 15 to 20 additional opportunities for female athletes which would be a Title IX benefit to the college. This is a fast emerging sport within local and state conferences. Butte College will fall behind other competitive volleyball programs if we do not add this up and coming sport. |
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| 5 | Golf Facility-Athletics | Facilities | 11.000.618.1.696001. | 55890 | $50,000.00 | $0.00 |
| Relocate and develop new golf facility | Relocate and develop new golf facility. We currently do not have a location for our golf athletes to practice, which leads to increased travel and budget expenditures. The small area that was utilized and dedicated to our student athletes was absorbed by the installation of solar panels (without the departments input). |
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| 6 | Men's Soccer-Athletics | Operating Expenses | 11.000.618.1.696001. | 55200 | $0.00 | $1,500.00 |
| Augment Men's Soccer budget | The Men�s Soccer program was budgeted as a one-time request. As the program was funded as an ongoing item, it was funded $1,500 lower than the original allocation. |
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| 7 | Football Stadium-Athletics | Facilities | 11.000.618.1.696001. | 55890 | $600,000.00 | $0.00 |
| Install to create a football/soccer field | This would create a safe playing surface for the football and soccer teams. It would save the district money in terms of maintenance, water, fertilizer and man hours. |
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| 8 | Baseball Field | Facilities | 11000618169001 | 55890 | $75,000.00 | $0.00 |
| Permanent Bleachers installed in front of press box | The current bleachers from the 80�s are unsafe, outdated and do not give the paying customers a good experience to watch a college game. Not only are they an eye sore for fans but many of them over the last thirteen years have commented on how bad and uncomfortable they are. This would enhance the fan�s experience and give a tremendous face lift to the facility. |
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| 9 | Athletics, Health, and Kinesiology | Personnel | $0.00 | $10,000.00 | ||
| Change from Adminstrative Assitant III to the Administrative Assistant to the Dean | To allow the position to further help out our current Director of Athletics, Health and Kinesiology with the endless amount of paperwork and other important task. |
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| 10 | Athletics | Facilities | $20,000.00 | $0.00 | ||
| Cover newly renovated Baseball Batting Cages | It would allow the student-athletes somewhere to hit on raining days and it will give us a place to store some of our expensive equipment to keep it out of the sun. |
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