Suspicion is that the enormous need for money to support new west county community college projects like purchase of 41 acre church camp explains in part this decision
(Table below — presented to Board by College — shows projects approved in concept for the Verde Campus by the District Governing Board in November 2022 but now discarded.)
The Yavapai Community College Governing Board approved at its April 23 meeting locating a prefabricated 12 bedroom, four bath, two kitchen apartment on the Verde Valley Campus. The College said this structure was intended to meet the housing needs of students, staff, and faculty.
The construction process involves building the apartment off-site and then transporting it in sections to the campus for reassembly. The estimated size of the structure is approximately 3,000 square feet, with an anticipated cost of $200 per square foot for purchase and installation. The total cost is estimated to be about $600,000.
The 12 bedroom apartment house represents a major departure from the previously proposed $9.25 million student housing project on the Verde Valley Campus. The housing project was greenlit in concept by the District Governing Board back in November 2022.
In addition to terminating the $9.25 million student housing project for the Verde Valley Campus, the College has also dumped the once formally approved $8.04 million Craft Brewing and Distilling program and the $608,000 Commercial Driving program. (All listed in approved in concept projects shown in the above table produced by the Community College.) It is suspected that the projects were discarded because of the need for a huge influx of cash to support the many new and expensive projects approved for expansion on the College’s west side of Yavapai County.
(Diagram shown to Governing Board at April 21, 2024 meeting.)
You may view a video clip explanation by Dr. Clint Ewell of the purchase of the prefabricated apartment at the April 21 Governing Board meeting by clicking here.