A Columbia Gorge Community College Board of Education worksession shed some light on the school’s short- and long-term fiscal picture, but many questions remain.  Chief Financial Officer Will Norris said a $1,600,000 in the current fiscal year’s budget will be handled first by using $600,000 of contingency and will balance out when the school receives its final payment of state funding for the current biennium in July, just days after the fiscal year ends.  But the bigger budget problem board chair Meredith Van Valkenburgh acknowledges they will face will be in 2015-16, where there is currently a projected two million dollar gap between revenues and expenditures.  He also says closing that gap shouldn’t be on the backs of students through tuition increases.  Board member Stu Watson questioned growth in the President’s office from 2011-12 to now, but President Frank Toda noted institutional researcher and marketing coordinator positions in his budget are now unfilled, adding eleven CGCC staff members have moved on in recent months.  Van Valkenburgh did reiterate CGCC would not close its Hood River campus, a subject that drew a significant outcry when Toda suggested the potential for such a move as a cost cutting measure two weeks ago.