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Ohio University Trustees Approve Six-Year
Capital Improvement
Budget
The
Ohio University Board of Trustees approved
a six-year capital improvement budget plan
at their meeting Friday on the Athens
campus. The capital improvement plan for
fiscal year 2000-2006 is divided into
three two-year periods and requires
between $42.6 million and $44.2 million
for each period, according to Director of
Facilities
Planning
John Kotowski.
Highlights
of the plan include:
- $23.9
million to renovate Baker
Center.
- $14
million to renovate and build an
addition on Bentley Hall.
- $10.2
million to renovate McCracken
Hall.
- $6.9
million to renovate Hudson Health
Center.
- $13.8
million to renovate Seigfred
Hall.
- $2.2
million to renovate Brasee Hall on the
Lancaster
Campus.
- $2
million to complete the Technology
Center on the Southern
Campus.
In
other action the trustees:
- Agreed
to contract with Rose Technology, Inc.,
an energy management firm, to work with
the university to retrofit university
energy systems. The contract is
expected to save the university
millions of dollars over the next
decade.
- Toured
the Russ
College of
Engineering
and praised student and faculty
presentations and news that the
National Academy of Engineering will
sponsor a biennial $500,000 prize in
honor of longtime Ohio University
benefactors Fritz J. and Dolores H.
Russ. The Russ Prize, funded through a
$5.8 million Ohio University endowment
from the Russes, becomes one of the top
two engineering prizes in the world.
The trustees expressed an interest in
future tours of campus facilities and
tours of other colleges.
For
more information, please read the
full
text of this news
release.
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