College presents formal changes to capital development plan to Governing Board at its March 7, 2017 meeting — Verde Valley citizen awareness pays off
Yavapai College Vice President of Finance and Administrative Services, Dr. Clint Ewell, announced major changes in the $104 million dollar capital development plan adopted by the Governing Board in December, 2013. Ewell wrote to the “Board that “With the changes made thus far, and the approval of the new recommended changes, the Capital Master Plan budget would be reduced to approximately $76M, down from the original $104M estimate.” This is a saving of $28 million dollars.
The biggest reduction came as a result of a reduction in size of the construction projects on the Prescott Valley Campus. Verde Valley representatives (Oliphant, Filardo, McCasland) and the Verde Valley Board Advisory Committee had raised questions about the construction in that town for at least three years. Their watchfulness and a change in presidents at Northern Arizona University may have caused the College to back off its plans for a 136,000 square foot addition. Here is what Dr. Ewell wrote to the Board at Tuesday’s meeting.
“YC still believes additional space is needed in PV; however, we have reduced the scope of the expansion to 50,000 feet rather than 136,000 feet as originally envisioned. Prescott Valley is still envisioned as the primary hub of allied Health programs (except Nursing). This represents a reduction of roughly $33.1M.”