Reduces allocation to Sedona Center to $380,000; inserts $1.5 million for PV Campus
The draft budget presented by the Wills’ administration at the February, 2016 Board meeting listed $5,586,500 to be spent on new construction projects in 2016-17. A little less than seven percent of that money is to be spent in the Verde Valley with $380,000 allocated to the renovation of the Sedona Center.
The College also intends to spend $90,000 on signage and $200,000 on open space improvements.
The changes in direction from the capital budget rolled out a year ago are significant. In that budget no capital construction was was planned for Prescott Valley. The decision to suddenly invest $1.5 million is a part of the Administration’s plan, no doubt, of accelerating the movement toward a Regional Allied Health campus. It is also appears as a response to pressure put on it by Prescott Valley politicos who appeared at the January Governing Board meeting and urged acceleration of the ten-year plan.
Last year’s budget contemplated spending $2.720 million renovating the Sedona Center in 2016-17. That money was reduced to $380,000 this year and the remaining revenue shifted to begin construction on the Prescott Valley Campus. The College said at the February meeting that it was impossible to move any faster on the Sedona project.
Set out below are last year and this year’s budget proposals.
