The College’s Board of Trustees agreed to cut nonunion employee salaries by five percent at its meeting yesterday.

The state mandated savings from all unionized employees (those with Communications Workers of America, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers and American Federation of Teachers contracts) during the summer, leaving the College to match these savings with non union employees, board members said.

The Board has already approved other cost saving measures concerning its employees, including furlough days, foregone pay, retirement contributions and other pay cuts. Some of these, including the furlough days and pay cuts, are also currently in effect at other state colleges.

The five percent pay reduction is to be implemented for the fiscal year 2010. The board also approved a $176.6 million budget for 2010, a 4.9 percent increase from 2009’s $168.2 million.