If this were Jeopardy!, the clue would be, “The most important question WCC Trustees aren’t asking.” Among the other questions that WCC Trustees aren’t asking,…
Posts published in “Deferred Maintenance”
The administration at Washtenaw Community College has incurred $20M in deferred maintenance projects around the campus. Deferred maintenance is repair work on buildings and systems that should have been done and was instead put off.
Taxpayers provided WCC with the money it needed to perform all necessary maintenance. Instead of using the money to repair buildings and critical systems, the administration has spent the money on other priorities.
I mentioned yesterday that I was going through the audited financial statements for WCC. I was looking for information about the growth of WCC’s administrative…
The taxpayers of Washtenaw County pay an awful lot for WCC, just as we have since 1965. The WCC Board of Trustees has a responsibility…
I recently ran across an article about the Rhode Island legislature’s hearing on community college spending. In July, the Legislature heard testimony from the president…
The pandemic has shifted the view on a lot of things on college campuses. At WCC, someone should be asking hard questions about whether or…
Standard & Poor’s provides analysis and information for investors in specific industries. Recently, it released ratings information on community colleges for bond investors . The…
Voters in San Francisco authorized a bond issue of $845M earlier this year for City College of San Francisco. The money will repair and rehabilitate…
I was reading an article recently about the long-term harms of structural deficits . The article focused on the budget for the City of Los…
WCC takes in more property tax revenue than all but two other community colleges in the state. It takes a special kind of cooperative carelessness…
Yesterday, I wrote about new construction and why it’s not a good idea – right now, or for the foreseeable future. WCC has a lot…