DANVILLE — Danville Area Community College trustees on Tuesday will vote on whether to adopt a budget for the 2012 fiscal year.

"We're certainly pleased to present a balanced budget," said President Alice Jacobs, who explained that the $38.5 million spending plan will allow the college to continue the Mary Miller Center renovation and expansion and update computer equipment and other technology.

It also allowed the college to add five full-time faculty positions. That, in turn, enabled the college to replace a part-time faculty member with a full-time one in four programs that have seen continual high enrollments and to launch its new echocardiography program this fall.

"This allows us to expand our offerings in the health care professions," Jacobs said, adding those professions are in high demand. "Health care is a major employer in our college district along with manufacturing. And over the last 10 years, we've been able to increase our offerings in this area."

The budget covers the fiscal year that started on July 1 and ends on June 20, 2012.

The Danville Area Community College Board of Trustees will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday. The meeting is in Vermilion Hall, Room 302, at the campus, 2000 E. Main St.

A copy of the agenda is available at http://bit.ly/ngqyvg.

The operating budget — unrestricted funds that pay for most salaries and benefits, contractual services, utilities and other day-to-day expenses — would take in and spend about $15.59 million. That's about a 6.1 percent increase over the 2011 operating budget.

About $3.93 million, or 25.2 percent of the revenue, would come from state funding, and about $6.47 million, or 41.5 percent, would come from tuition and fees. About $4.75 million, or 30.5 percent, would come from local property taxes and corporate personal property replacement tax.

Jacobs said the tax levy rate is anticipated to be between 61.03 cents and 62.05 cents per $100 of assessed valuation, depending on the overall equalized assessed valuation in the district.

"It will be in about the same range that it has been for the last several years," Jacobs said, pointing out it will be down from about 66 cents per $100 of assessed valuation from the 1998-2001 fiscal years.

In addition to the echocardiography program instructor, the college replaced a part-time faculty position with full-time ones in its culinary arts, graphic design and auto body/auto mechanics programs and biology department.

"That was needed because of the high enrollments," Jacobs said. While enrollment peaked with students taking 77,987 credit hours in fiscal year 2010, she said enrollment has continued to remain strong since then.

Despite the record enrollment, Jacobs pointed out that the college didn't feel it could afford to add staff a couple of years ago, even though enrollment numbers would have warranted it.

"I'm very appreciative to our faculty and staff for stepping forward and taking on more work," she said. "If we had (added positions at that time), we wouldn't have had a balanced budget today unless we had laid people off."