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Capital Budget Request

2025-27 Capital Budget Request

Preserve, optimize, modernize

In today’s rapidly changing higher education landscape, community and technical colleges need to offer safe, modern spaces for teaching and learning and provide the best training ground for new and emerging career fields. Our community and technical college system’s $652.8 million capital budget request is designed to meet both those goals.

Minor works request

Our request prioritizes minor works projects ahead of all other work to prevent or delay more costly renovations and replacement projects in the future. 

In this request, our state’s 34 community and technical colleges would receive funding for high-priority facility repairs — such as repairing or replacing roofs, windows, elevators, boilers, and mechanical systems — and to proactively replace campus infrastructure that is beyond its useful life, before it fails.

All colleges would also receive funding to modernize existing spaces to ensure they continue to be viable, relevant, and useful.

Major projects

Our capital budget request includes funding for 12 major projects, starting with a study of possible solutions for Lake Swano dam at Grays Harbor College. The remaining projects on the list support space for instruction, labs, student services, and vocational programs in high-demand fields like clean energy, automotive technology, advanced manufacturing, and allied health. Nearly 241,000 square feet of the college system’s oldest and least functional teaching and learning spaces would be replaced or renovated.

Clean Buildings Act compliance

Our college system seeks funding for each college to inventory energy-consuming equipment on campus — such as HVACs, boilers, and lighting systems — in order to develop Energy Management and Operations and Maintenance plans required by the 2019 Clean Buildings Act. A second part of this request is to enable colleges to either train staff to become qualified to submit compliance reports or contract with others who are qualified to submit the reports.

Priority College Funding phase Project Request amount Cumulative request

1

Systemwide

2003 operating fund swap

Preventive Facility Maintenance and Building System Repairs

$22,800,000

$22,800,000

2

Systemwide

Design & Construction

Minor Works - Preservation (25-27)

$33,325,000

$56,125,000

3

Systemwide

Design & Construction

Minor Repairs - Roof (25-27)

$12,153,000

$68,278,000

4

Systemwide

Design & Construction

Minor Repairs - Facility (25-27)

$47,554,000

$115,832,000

5

Systemwide

Design & Construction

Minor Repairs - Site
(25-27)

$4,771,000

$120,603,000

6

Systemwide

Design & Construction

Minor Repairs - Infrastructure (25-27)

$43,400,000

$164,003,000

7

Systemwide

Design & Construction

Minor Works - Program (25-27)

$45,446,000

$209,449,000

8

Grays Harbor

Planning/Design

Lake Swano Dam Study

$1,000,000

$210,449,000

9

Olympic

Construction

Innovation & Technology Learning Center

$31,232,000

$241,681,000

10

Lower Columbia

Construction

Center for Vocational and Transitional Studies

$45,388,000

$287,069,000

11

Columbia Basin

Design & Construction

Performing Arts Building Replacement

$54,868,000

$341,937,000

12

Whatcom

Design & Construction

Technology and Engineering Center

$51,457,000

$393,394,000

13

Cascadia

Construction

CC5 Gateway building

$40,208,000

$433,602,000

14

Edmonds

Construction

Triton Learning Commons

$43,900,000

$477,502,000

15

Renton

Construction

Health Sciences Center

$52,078,000

$529,580,000

16

Bellingham

Design & Construction

Engineering Technology Center - Bldg J Replacement

$18,676,000

$548,256,000

17

Centralia

Construction

Teacher Education and Family Development Center

$12,854,000

$561,110,000

18

Spokane

Construction

Apprenticeship Center

$43,501,000

$604,611,000

19

Skagit

Construction

Library/Culinary Arts Building

$37,580,000

$642,191,000

20

Systemwide

Data & Compliance

Clean Buildings Compliance - Equipment Inventory and Reporting

$10,612,000

$652,803,000

Alternative Financing Request

College Project Funding phase Request
Columbia Basin Student Housing Construction Design & Construction $18,000,000
Edmonds Student Housing Acquisition Acquisition $9,000,000

Contact

Darrell Jennings
Capital Budget Director
djennings@sbctc.edu
360-704-4382

Page Manager: slocke@sbctc.edu
Last Modified: 10/22/24, 10:35 PM

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