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Clatsop College to Resurface?

by Tryan Hartill

An interesting blurb in the Oregonian today about Ted K’s budget

Saying now is the time to rebuild Oregon’s tattered school and college systems, Gov. Ted Kulongoski is proposing to pump two-thirds of the new money from a surging economy into education, from pre-school to college.

One of the biggest increases in the governor’s proposed budget—$241 million—is for construction and renovation on university and community college campuses. The money would build new science labs at Portland State University, remodel and expand the theater arts building at Southern Oregon University and create a new campus for Clatsop Community College. The college has been using a building abandoned by the Astoria School District.

Jay Kenton, vice chancellor for finance and administration for the Oregon University System, said it’s the biggest increase in state support for campus construction he’s seen in more than 20 years and will begin to chip away at a $640 million backlog in deferred capital projects.

What strikes me as odd about this is the wording. Create a new campus.

Not “fund part of”, or “help create”.

You think this may have been the plan from the beginning?

Throw a few million out as carrots to try to get the bond measure to pass?

Remember these quotes from a few short weeks ago?

“Take the State money now or it will be divided up to other Colleges around the State.”

“If this doesn’t pass we will stay at the current campus for decades”.

“Everyone is worried about the where instead of the what.

Dec 5, 07:02 pm | Tryan Hartill
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1 On Dec 6, 06:45 am, Patrick McGee wrote:

So now, without that 25 Million from the November vote, it’s on to Warrenton, Nygaard and that…...uh…..free land which is really going to cost us.

Contrary to what you are being told it wasn’t the what it was the “Lie” of where and Ms. Betsy’s little brain storm failed miserably.

2 On Dec 18, 03:47 pm, Ron Meyer wrote:

Why is the location of CCC in the Northernmost part of Clatsop County? The voting population of Warrenton-Astoria nixed the site while the southern most voted for it. Planting the location somewhere in a more southern location where school age families will be located as the next twenty to forty years of growth hits the county. The area between Elsie and the intersection of 26 and 101 offers a much larger footprint opportunity, anything that allows for a more expansive area than the suggested proposal in Warrenton-Astoria. Wherever the college locates a community will grow around it and it will be the hub of intellectual and social activities. A more remote location away from the special interests of Astoria and the current crop of monopoly players from California would better serve the educational community in the long run. A concentration of Health Sciences and Engineering curriculums in the college could position the school to take on R & D programs that would excite industry to locate in the industrial property located on Port property near the Astoria Airport. Without industry our high school and college grads have no job opportunities with a meaningful future…not in their hometowns anyway…

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