With the current budget crisis facing West Valley­Mission Community College District, why does our board hold its budget workshop at the Los Gatos Lodge?

Doesn't this cost money for a room, snacks, lunch, etc.?

What is wrong with brown-bagging a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to the West Valley board room?

Our leaders tell us that we must share the burden of this financial mess. Well, fine.

Faculty has always borne the burden and the brunt. Granted that the cost of a one-day meeting doesn't account for much, but it says a lot symbolically to those of us who are facing a magnitude of cuts and layoffs, with far fewer services and supplies and with no immediate light at the end of the tunnel.

—Pat Andrews, West Valley College instructor