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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.

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