The community colleges are an important and necessary asset to their communities.

Most of our work force comes from the community college system. The students fill highly skilled jobs in machining and administrative roles and are compensated with good pay and benefits.

Voting “yes” on Question 5 will help to expand access to qualified employees with a great education, at a lower cost to students.

We can’t do it without them.

Bruce Tisdale, Monmouth, president, Mountain Machine Works, Auburn