$5.2 million spent on improvements at CTEC (probably more) in 2015 were just the beginning
Per the draft budget rolled out at the March 2018 Governing Board meeting, Yavapai College administrators will spend $1,339,510 on the Career and Technical Education Center (CTEC) in overall improvements in 2018 – 19. Those improvements include $534,000 to install a new food-service facility at the Center. The administrators intend to spend $130,510 on new equipment and $675,000 to improve drainage and complete another new parking lot.
You may recall that that in September 2015 the College stated it had completed renovating and improving the Career and Technical Education Center by spending $5.2 million. At the time it boasted it was $150,000 below budget.
Since the 2015 announcement, there have been a plethora of additional high-cost capital items approved that are associated with CTEC. For example, in July 2016 the College announced it had completed replacing parking lots and upgrading rest rooms at CTEC. It indicated it was in phase 2 of demolishing the front parking lot at CTEC. It added administrative space for the Joint Mountain Institute Joint Technical Education District offices at CTEC in 2016.
The actual costs for many of these projects and others for CTEC have been hidden from public view in the Preventative & Unplanned budget. Until this year, that budget did not indicate what campus the millions of dollars contained in it were going.