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Carl Flipper to direct Clark College
nonacademic revenue opportunities
Carl Flipper has
been appointed director of Auxiliary Services at Clark College, a new position
created to help the community college bring in nontraditional revenue to
supplement state funding to maintain open enrollment.
Clark has the highest ratio of underfunded student slots
in the state.
As director of Auxiliary services, Flipper will provide
management and business direction to the nonacademic business support
operations, including the bookstore, events services, print shop and food
services.
Flipper’s job, according to Clark president
Wayne Branch, “is to improve efficiency,
cut costs, increase revenues and support enterprise areas at the college.”
Flipper, a native of New Orleans, holds a masters degree
in marketing and finance from the University of Illinois. He has extensive
background in the political arena, electronic media and community service.
Currently, Flipper is chair of the Oregon Public
Broadcasting Community Advisory Board and is a former member of the OPB board of
directors. He is president of the National Buffalo Soldiers Historic Society and
is chair of the United States of America Republic of South Africa, which
promotes educational and cultural ties between Oregon and the Western Cape of
South Africa.
Flipper is a former director of the Idaho Small Business
Development Center and has taught economics at the Lewis-Clark State College in
Idaho.
Flipper founded a radio station in Springfield, Ill.,
launched a public television station for the University of Illinois-Springfield,
and is a former radio talk-show host.
Doug Schmitt and Cager Clabaugh named
to Clark County Skills Center Foundation board
Doug Schmitt,
Battle Ground, and Cager Clabaugh,
Vancouver, have been appointed to the Clark County Skills Center Foundation
Board.
Schmitt, a certified public accountant, is co-owner of
Royal Family Ginseng Plaza, Portland. Schmitt and his wife,
Valerie, are partners in CLOAK, an
educational and manufacturing outreach project based in Portland and Suzhou,
China.
Clabaugh, a Clark County native, is a third-generation
longshoreman, is vice president of the International Longshoremen and
Warehousemen’s Union, Local 4. He is president of the Clark, Skamania and West
Klickitat Labor Council. Clabaugh is a 2003 graduate of Leadership Clark County.
The Skills Center is operated by nine southwest
Washington school districts and offers 15 technical and professional training
programs to prepare high school and college students for the work force.
County growth outpacing 2004 new
residential electric hook-ups show
Clark Public Utilities signed up 713 residential
customers in the first two months this year, compared to 536 in January and
February of 2004. Clark’s annual rate of growth is already at 2.73 percent,
compared to 2.12 percent after the first two months of 2004. The actual annual
growth was 3.02 percent for all of 2004.
Clark Public Utilities currently serves 156,566
residential customers.
According to Clark’s water system hook ups, the greatest
growth in the county is in the Vancouver urban growth area north of the city,
which includes Hazel Dell and Salmon Creek. The water system added 246 customers
during the first two months of this year, indicating a growth rate of 5.27
percent.
News briefs
Public testimony will be accepted at a hearing being held
by the Public Transportation Improvement Conference, relating to proposed
reductions in C-TRAN service areas at 6:30 p.m. this evening in Foster
Auditorium on the Clark College campus. g
Vancouver Fire Department Commendations and Citizen Awards will be presented at
6:30 p.m. this evening in the Water Resources Education Center, 4600 Columbia
Way. g A public hearing on the remand
for reconsideration of the Storedahl Daybreak Mining & Habitat Enhancement
decision before county hearings examiner Daniel
Kearns in the Public Service Center, 1300 Franklin Street, is at 7 p.m.
this evening. g
Amy Mossett, historian and Sacagawea
impressionist, presents “Who Was Sacagawea” at 7 p.m. this evening in the Gaiser
Hall auditorium. The free event is sponsored by the college, the Vancouver/Clark
County Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Committee, the Fort Vancouver Regional
Library District and the Washington State Historical Society.
g Clark County commissioners meet in
informal session at 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 30, in conference Room B in the
Public Service Center.
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MIRIAM GREEN 
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