FERRIDAY &8212; The Louisiana Community and Technical College System is about to be shaken up; legislation passed last summer mandates it.

It&8217;s what&8217;s going to happen when the shaking stops that has Shelby M. Jackson Dean Mignonne Ater a little worried.

&8220;Many of us are concerned with how it affects the individual campuses,&8221; she told the Ferriday Chamber of Commerce Monday. &8220;We don&8217;t know the possible affects.&8221;

Ater got some of the wanted details in a Tuesday meeting with Walter Bumpus, the president of the college system.

Bumpus, who will present his proposal to the college system board of supervisors in its March 8 meeting, met Tuesday with the deans of each district&8217;s campuses.

And while he didn&8217;t have a lot of specifics, Ater said, he did give the impression that the reshuffle would take each area&8217;s unique situation into consideration.

&8220;He implied that there were not going to be a lot of changes at the local level, that was reassuring,&8221; she said by phone.

Act 506, which passed the Legislature in June 2005, ordered the college system, which governs all of the community and technical colleges in the state, to reorganize itself.

Since its inception in 1998, the college system has overseen the operation of the state&8217;s community and technical colleges.

Charges of mismanagement and resistance to change, as well as a desire to trim costs, led to the Legislature&8217;s action.

The 40 campuses of the Louisiana Technical College have acted as their own, autonomous university, answered to seven district vice chancellors who in turn reported to a chancellor in the college system office in Baton Rouge.

In a February meeting, an initial reorganization proposal made by Commissioner of Higher Education Joseph Savoie to the supervisors disbands the Louisiana Technical College, creates nine new regions and puts each region&8217;s technical colleges under the supervision of a &8220;proximate&8221; community college.

That&8217;s well and good, Ater said, except for the fact that the proposed new Region 6, which includes Avoyelles, Catahoula, Evangeline, Grant, LaSalle, Rapides, Vernon as well as Concordia parishes, does not contain a community college.

The part of Savoie&8217;s proposal, from a local campus perspective, is the idea of melding all of the administration and support staff into a central, regional office.

&8220;Without strong leadership at the local campus, it would be the slow demise of our local campuses,&8221; Ater said.

Bumpus will base his proposal on Savoie&8217;s proposal as well as his own study of the matter.

The college system has until June of this year to dissolve the Louisiana Technical College organization model.