Charlotte Observer: School job cuts followed retreat at luxury inn
RCCC trustees spent weekend at Biltmore
Before Rowan-Cabarrus Community College cut its faculty to help make up a $600,000 budget shortfall, its trustees spent nearly $16,000 on a retreat at Asheville’s posh Inn on Biltmore Estate.
That was 60 percent more than the much larger Central Piedmont Community College spent on its retreat last year. And it was mostly public money.
The state paid $11,018 toward the RCCC retreat last April. Rowan and Cabarrus counties chipped in $2,803 for meal costs beyond what the state paid, college officials said. The college’s foundation paid the nearly $2,000 tab for spouses’ meals.
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