How the Bond Funds Will Be Used: Question 3
$15.5 million for Maine's Community Colleges
The Maine Bureau of General Services has identified some $75 million in needed and desirable repairs and upgrades to MCCS facilities. The $15.5 million will help to begin to address those needs.
If Question 3 is approved by voters, the following projects will be undertaken at each college.
Central Maine Community College Total: $1,463,000
- Electrical infrastructure improvement
- Jalbert Hall renovations—classroom and lab reconfiguration
- Security improvements
- Kirk Hall renovations—new nursing lab, roof repair
- Jalbert and Fortin Hall renovations—asbestos removal
Eastern Maine Community College Total: $4,936,000
- Maine Hall—major renovations to the college’s primary classroom building to upgrade computer systems and reconfigure teaching and lab facilities for the following programs: machine tool, business management, nursing, medical radiography, the sciences, electrical and automation technology, building construction, and computer systems technology.
- Campus upgrades to address environmental and access issues.
Kennebec Valley Community College Total: $3,030,000
- Frye Building—renovations, repairs, space reconfiguration (including new boiler and HVAC work to enable technology programs to use space year-round).
- King Hall—renovations, repairs, and ADA accommodations
- Carter Hall—renovations and upgrades to heating and ventilation system
- Frye Annex—exterior and roof renovations
- General Campus—upgrades to equipment and computer technology, classroom renovations
Northern Maine Community College Total: $758,000
- Mailman Trades Building —renovations
- Christie Complex—renovations
- Upgrades to heating and ventilation systems
- New classroom technology
Southern Maine Community College Total: $3,578,000
- Health Science Building —extensive repair and renovations
- Culinary Arts/Cafeteria—extensive renovations
- General campus building & infrastructure repairs
Washington County Community College Total: $1,236,000
- Mechanical trades and construction programs—repair and retrofitting of classroom laboratories for heavy equipment operations/maintenance, automotives, welding, and plumbing/heating.
York County Community College Total: $500,000
- Upgrades to Information Technology infrastructure, with a particular focus on improving YCCC’s ability to reach into rural western York County , making it possible for students who would not otherwise be able to commute to the coast to avail themselves of a YCCC education.
For information about the importance of Question 3 to the University of Maine System, go here.