ST. LOUIS • Some St. Louis Community College employees could be notified as early as Wednesday that they have been laid off.

College administrators were given the green light to lay off as many as 70 faculty members and 25 staff members to address the school’s ongoing budget issues at the Nov. 30 board meeting.

At that meeting, the Board of Trustees directed Chancellor Jeff Pittman to work with the college’s chapter of the National Education Association, which represents full-time faculty, to consider moving the layoff notification date from Dec. 15 to March 1.

Moving the date would have given the college time to roll out a voluntary buyout program. If enough people took the buyouts, fewer layoffs would have been needed.

But in a campuswide email Monday, vice chancellor Andrew Langrehr said the notifications will be made Wednesday through Friday.