WCC has waited a long time to complete repairs to the Morris Lawrence Building. Recently, CFO Bill Johnson announced that WCC would use reserve cash…
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.
Last week, I wrote about the Morris Lawrence Building and its potential to provide hospital space in a disaster. As it turns out, that scenario…
A study published by Public Agenda in 2011 found that most higher education trustees get their information about the institution they’re supposed to be governing…
West Virginia – in the first year of a state-wide free college program – has increased enrollment at its two-year colleges. The state legislature approved…
Last summer, trustees at Kirtland Community College voted to abandon the school’s main campus in Roscommon in favor of a newer site in Grayling. Kirtland…
The Morris Lawrence Building is arguably one of the most “public” buildings on campus. Because it hosts so many events each year, the public probably…
It’s not very often that Washtenaw County voters get to weigh in on what happens at WCC. For the most part, the WCC Board of…
Here’s an interesting statistic. According to the State of Michigan, Washtenaw County’s estimated median household income in 1999 was $53,229. According to the US Census…
It would be very easy to write off WCCWatch as an angry response to the outsourcing of WCC’s IT staff. That is certainly how the…
In this fourth item in this series, we’ll look at what the Washtenaw County taxpayers get in return for our enormous investment in Washtenaw Community…