To improve student access to career training and higher education opportunities, provide
adequate facilities, the District will, in accordance with its Long Range Facilities
Plan, construct, improve, renovate and rehabilitate college facilities including but
not limited to the following:
- Construct a new modern science and technology building in order to accommodate the
number of qualified students wishing to enroll in classes within nursing, emergency
medical training and other health science programs
- Make necessary health and safety improvements such as upgrading fire alarm and communication
systems and making ADA (handicapped accessibility) improvements
- Replace outdated science labs that were built in the 1960's in order to provide a
safe, efficient and productive facility for students
- Provide and construct additional college classrooms to expand career/vocational programs
including electrical, heating, ventilation and air conditioning and construction in
order to prepare students for good paying jobs
- Upgrade electrical and data wiring systems to improve students access to computers
and modern technology; modernize technology infrastructure and computer labs
- Modernize and rehabilitate existing facilities to meet 21st century instructional
and curriculum standards including healthy and safety improvements throughout the
College
- Improve, expand, and construct additional student support facilities
- Purchase educational facilities the District is currently leasing
- Furnish and equip college facilities to the extent permitted by law
- Address unforeseen conditions revealed by construction/ modernization (e.g., plumbing
or gas line breaks, dry rot, seismic, structural, etc.)
- Necessary site preparation/restoration in connection with new construction, renovation
or remodeling, or installation or removal of relocatable classrooms
- Continue to renovate, modernize, upgrade and add the necessary educational facilities
as required
- Provide funding to assure that all deferred, current and future maintenance and safety
repairs are made to protect the community's capital investment in the College
