Higher education institutions aren’t the only ones struggling with the consequences of neglected facilities maintenance. The enormous cost of ignoring infrastructure problems isn’t the only…
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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.
Yesterday, I wrote about the perfectly outrageous revelation that buildings at several City College of San Francisco campuses remained without heat for two or more…
Holding a Board of Trustees meeting in a room with no heat apparently gets the maintenance money moving. At least, that’s what happened earlier this…
Late last year, the Kansas state legislature earmarked $45M to help address maintenance neglect on the campuses of the state universities in Kansas. There’s nothing…
I recently read an interesting editorial regarding public debt. The author divided “public debt” into three different kinds of mismanagement: budgetary mismanagement; failure to invest…
The University of North Carolina has a housing problem for the fall semester. The wait list for on-campus housing has increased by more than 40%…
I have written extensively about the impact of building neglect on the facilities at WCC. Reducing the maintenance budget is a recipe for disaster, and…
Prior to 1994, Michigan did not have property tax caps. Until then, a property’s State Equalized Value (SEV) served as the basis for taxed property.…
Recently, I read an article about the cost of neglected maintenance at Louisiana State University. LSU is wrestling with nearly $637M in maintenance liabilities due…
Inflation affects everyone, including commercial construction firms. Prior to 2021, commercial construction projects “escalated” (increased in price) at a rate of about 2%-4% per year.…