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…
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.
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…
The Morris Lawrence Building is scheduled to close at the end of December 2020 for a 6-month renovation. The $9 million project will rehabilitate the…
Washtenaw Community College has a millage question on the ballot. On the surface, WCC is looking for “operating funds.” Realistically though, the Washtenaw Community College…
If you look at the current Facilities Development Report for WCC, you’ll find a list of projects. Some of them are neglect-based projects. Others are…
According to WCC’s Chief Financial Officer, Bill Johnson, WCC intends to undertake between $23M and $32M of capital projects between 2021and 2023. From the December…