Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 25, June 22, 2024
Section 155.22 - Alternative plans(a) Within 2 weeks after the publication of this chapter. The Secretary of Education will distribute a statement concerning alternatives to retrenchment. The statement shall include specific suggestions for use by the colleges in their retrenchment planning.(b) Throughout the period of retrenchment planning and during the first year of retrenchment notification-that is, between April 28, 1975 and August 31, 1976-colleges may search for alternatives to retrenchment that would meet both the expenditure targets and educational quality and service targets for fiscal 1976-1977.(c) Proposed plans for alternatives to retrenchment may be presented by July 14, 1975. During the initial stage of the retrenchment planning process, however, each college shall plan with the assumption that no alternatives are likely to be implemented prior to September 8, 1975. Under these circumstances, it is inevitable that the retrenchment plans submitted on June 30, 1975, will, for each college, identify the employes who will receive termination notices immediately after September 8, 1975.(d) If alternatives to retrenchment are approved by the Secretary of Education, he may authorize the rescinding of the appropriate number of layoff notices. The approval will not be granted, however, unless anticipated savings of expenditures or anticipated additional revenues from non-Commonwealth sources proposed as alternatives to the retrenchment plan of a college are officially and fully realized prior to the period of either layoff notification or termination.(e) If gifts, grants or endowments are made to a college so that a position scheduled for retrenchment might be preserved, the amount of the gift, grant or endowment may not be subtracted from Commonwealth revenues received by the college, and the position may be restored for the period covered by the additional funds. The priority considerations of the college's new missions and academic balance shall still be applied as tests of the position, however.