Despite a looming $20 million district budget deficit, De Anzadoesn’t plan to cut the number of class offerings in the summer orfall quarter. The summer quarter will actually see a 2 percentincrease in class offerings, said Judy Miner, vice president ofinstruction.
Key administrators and new student senators met on Wednesday at anopen discussion in the campus center. The purpose of the meetingwas to bring next year’s senate up to speed on campus issues. Mostof the questions raised had to do with next year’s budget crisis,and the impact that it will have on student life.

Parking next year will be tight, and Lots A, B and C will see majorchanges, said Mike Brandy, vice president of finance and collegeservices. Lots A and B are being consolidated into one parking lot,and the school plans to build a 3-story parking structure similarto the one at the Flint Center in Lot C.

Lot A has been closed since last Monday, and will not reopen untilthe end of summer. Construction workers cut down an unspecifiednumber of trees in Lot A last week, which had some students andstaff up in arms. De Anza will replace every tree that has a trunk12 inches or thicker in diameter, in new landscaping areas thatwill be planted when Measure E construction is done.

The trees were planted too close together, said Brandy and weren’tgiven the right amount of water. He affirmed De Anza’s commitmentto the environment by saying that the new, native specimen treeswill be spaced properly, and watered by a timed irrigationsystem.

Two redwood trees will stay on campus as handmade benches in theEnvironmental Study Area. The rest of the trees will go to a locallogger who plans to turn the wood into lumber.

The Child Development Center has been bargaining withadministrators since Monday to stay open in the fall with a fullstaff, said Miner. CDC staff will most likely take a 25% voluntarypay cut, and reduce its hours of operation.

Bargain hunters will have to shell out $5 for flea market parkingfrom now on, and daily parking citations will cost $30 instead of$25. The money generated from these increases in parking fees willgo to the district’s parking fund, which pays for campus securityand parking lot maintenance.

Senators thought that less parking coupled with heavier citationfees was a bad idea. Kate Bertges, former senate secretarydescribed her frustration with circling the parking lots for halfand hours searching for an open spot.

Brandy and Miner empathized with Bertges, and described somealternatives to parking on campus. The Vallco shuttle service willrun every day in the fall and winter quarters, instead of just inthe first month. De Anza is currently in negotiations with the OaksShopping Center across the street on leasing parking spots forstudents. Despite these efforts, parking will be scarce, saidBrandy.

He suggested a possible reward for students who will carpool in thefall. Alternative Transportation Systems has launched a newwebsite, www.carpoolzip.com/deanza that will pair carpooling DeAnza students together.

Former senator Nacime Karami suggested that the district create50-minute parking spots for students who will only go to one classand leave. Brandy was excited about implementing the idea, sayingthat he hadn’t thought of it before.