Office of Finance

The Office of Finance has developed a contact list which can be accessed here.

Celebrating HACC Military Veterans with Designated Campus Parking

The campus facilities teams partnered with the Office of Inclusion, Diversity and Belonging’s Military Affairs Department to provide designated parking spaces at each campus. Thank you to Wendy Brubaker and Merrick Green for providing the signs and Randall Campbell, Dave Edwards and Tom Frye for installation.

Campus locations: Gettysburg, Hub entrance; Harrisburg, behind Bruce E. Cooper Student Center; Lancaster, front entrance of Main; Lebanon, in the reserved space by the wall, with a special thanks to the Mayor of Lebanon, Sherry Capello, for agreeing to the location; York, front entrance of Governor George M. Leader Building.

Facilities Work Order Update

The facilities team has upgraded the Asset Essential (School DudeⓇ) work order system to better align requests with the correct work that needs to be performed. The following new categories have been added to the current work order system: “Outdoor Infrastructure”, “Furniture”, “Keys & Locks”, “Equipment Repair”, and “General Maintenance”.

Please note, when submitting your first work order, please be specific with regards to the campus location and room/office number as it automatically defaults to the Harrisburg Campus location and no other option is offered. After the first work order is submitted, your name will appear and you will then be assigned as a “global requester” granting you the options to choose any of HACC campus locations on future work orders.

Budget Update

On December 7, 2021 the Board of Trustees approved the internally generated October 31, 2021 Financial Operating Statement. The financial results for the first four months of the fiscal year show the impacts of declining enrollments. Highlights of the discussion included:

Summer and fall semesters had a net decrease in enrollments of 7%
Total revenue lags budgeted revenue by $4.5 million
Due to enrollment declines, bookstore and food service revenue is down $500,000
The College realized operating savings of $1.8 million and $750,000 of benefit costs
The net result of these variances caused a shortfall from the planned budget of $2.5 million.

If we continue to experience these trends, the College will most likely be faced with a several million-dollar deficit. It is still early enough in the fiscal year to identify the challenges and act to minimize the financial impacts of lower enrollments. The College will continue to evaluate operations and manage expenses to reduce the deficit. Most of the expenses are related to personnel costs, and it is important that we seek opportunities to reduce those expenses where practical. That may include consolidating course sections, not running classes with few students, and/or not filling a vacant position that may occur during this period. We will continue to evaluate the situation as we head into the spring semester and keep the College community informed.

Welcome Austin Gish

Please welcome Austin Gish who was recently hired to fill one of our open maintenance specialist positions. Austin is a past student of HACC and studied under Matt Kiker in the electrical program. Austin has a vast array of interests including vintage audio equipment (specifically 8-tracks) and has a very special Chrysler New Yorker tucked away in his garage. Austin is eager to learn as much as he can and has been shadowing under our seasoned veterans Brett Thompson, Brian Cigic and others. A special KUDOS to them for being awesome teachers! We are thrilled to have Austin as a part of our tiny but mighty team.

Welcome Maureen Beckert

Please welcome Maureen Beckert, grounds supervisor. She is a horticulturist and received her degree from Penn College in Williamsport, PA. Before joining the HACC community, Maureen worked as a landscape designer, and she embraces her education and experience in many aspects of the green industry, including estate gardening, plant health care, research and sales. Maureen possesses knowledge and experience within a campus setting and enjoys the energy in these environments. Her hometown smells of chocolate, the home of M&M’s, Hackettstown, NJ. Maureen lives in Mechanicsburg, enjoys her shade garden but dreams of full sun, loving her old home with restoration and bragging about her family.

Lancaster Parking Lot Repair

On a cold, wet November day, Lancaster/Lebanon FMD employee Ron Worby, specialist general maintenance, is operating a Bobcat. Ron used geo-textile material, #4 stone and topsoil to provide a solution for two sinkholes that developed on the Lancaster Campus North parking area drainage swales. He placed the geo-textile in the hole, back filled with the #4 stone and wrapped the rest of the geo-textile material around and over the stone. This will provide a smooth transition of water through the material and stone without further eroding the natural material around the new fill material. These sinkholes were a result of water being forced underground from the trenching for fiber-optic cable conduit. The conduit was installed several years ago and due to the extremely heavy rain this fall, the material used for the backfill failed. The area will be back-bladed and seeded. Ron is just one example of the talent that exists on the HACC facilities management team collegewide!

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