Some districts see them as purely a money item, and they lose sight of their importance. Money for office hours needs to be gradually built into a budget.

Many students have dropped classes taught by part-timers because those professors do not have office hours. Struggling students in a class with no office hours sometimes end up falling through the cracks.

Things are not going well. Impasse is a definite possibility.

They decided to break off the portion on salary because that part has already been decided. All the other items are still on the table.