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June
1995
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18:00 PM
America/New_York
Trustees Hear Capital Budget Report
RENOVATIONS, BUSINESS, FOOD SCIENCE TOP CAPITAL REQUEST LIST
COLUMBUS -- The Ohio State University has come up with its
"Top Nine" list of requests for construction funds in the 1997-
98 state capital budget.
Topping the list are funds for general building renovations
and new facilities for the Max M. Fisher College of Business and
the Department of Food Science and Technology.
In a report Friday (6/2) to the university's Board of
Trustees, Richard Sisson, senior vice president for academic
affairs and provost, and William J. Shkurti, vice president for
finance, said they are seeking public comment on the preliminary
recommendations through June. The final list will be submitted
in July to the Ohio Board of Regents. The Regents will evaluate
requests from state colleges and universities, and formulate a
state-wide recommendation to the governor.
Ohio State will request $117 million in the coming biennium,
including $20 million for basic and supplemental renovations to
repair aging structures, most of them on the 125-year-old
Columbus campus. The university received $103.8 million for the
current biennium.
Sisson and Shkurti said that the backlog of deferred
maintenance is the university's highest unmet need.
The university also will seek $24 million to fund the second
phase of construction of the Fisher College of Business, which
will be built on the north campus area between Neil Avenue and
Tuttle Park Place. The state money will be augmented by $13.4
million in privately raised funds. Groundbreaking for the first
phase of construction occurred Friday (6/2).
In addition, $9.9 million will be sought from the state to
construct the Food Science and Technology Building, a connector
joining the Animal Science Building and Howlett Hall. Howlett is
home to the Department of Horticulture, the Food Processing
Laboratory, and the Food Industries Center.
The College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental
Sciences will contribute $6.2 million in privately raised money
to help fund the project, which will also remodel laboratories in
Animal Science and Howlett. The state provided $1.1 million in
planning funds for the facility in the current capital
appropriation.
Ohio State also will seek funds for four projects with high
academic priority and high physical needs. They are, in order:
-- $19.5 million for a life sciences building,
-- $4 million to plan and prepare a site for a physical
sciences building,
-- $1 million to plan the renovation of Hagerty Hall which
currently houses the College of Business, and
-- $16.2 million to construct a building to replace a
deteriorated section of Sisson Hall in the College of Veterinary
Medicine.
In addition, the university is requesting money to fund two
other priority projects that were rated as having high financial
feasibility and physical need. They are the Knowlton School of
Architecture, $9 million, and the Heart and Lung Institute, $13.4
million.
Deans and vice presidents were invited in December to
recommend projects for inclusion in the capital budget request.
University administrators then ranked them in terms of academic
priority, physical need, financial feasibility, and other
considerations.
Shkurti noted that there are other projects which are
needed, but will not be a priority for this biennium. They
include replacing Robinson Laboratory, renovating the Ohio Union,
and completing the second phase of the library book depository.
Comments may be sent to Sisson in the Office of Academic
Affairs or Shkurti in the Office of Finance, Bricker Hall, 190 N.
Oval Mall, Columbus, Ohio 43210.
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Contact: Richard Sisson, (614) 292-5881, or William Shkurti,
(614) 292-9232.
Written by Tom Spring.
[Submitted by: Von Reid-Vargas (ereid@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
Mon, 5 Jun 1995 11:03:24 -0400]
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