Fee Hike or Reduced course offering?

Here is the link to the Legislative Analyst Office page that argues for fee hikes. I found the following section interesting, because it seems that we are in the process of cutting our course offerings.

Reduced Course Offerings. In a 2005 report to the Legislature on enrollment
changes at CCC, the Chancellor’s Office suggested that an unknown amount of the
enrollment decline can be explained by districts having reduced the number of
course offerings. This reduction was in response to concerns by districts about
possible cuts to the CCC system budget during this period. Community colleges
reduced about 10,000 course sections systemwide between fall 2002 and fall 2003.
It was not until spring 2005 that CCC fully restored this courseload. With fewer
course offerings, some potential students found there was no space in courses
they wanted and thus did not enroll. (This is also a possible explanation for
why enrollment in noncredit instruction—which is free for all students—declined
during this time period.)