Capital Budget Request
Selection criteria, instructions and other information for colleges developing capital project requests.
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 $650 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 |
$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 |
$31,054,000 |
$241,503,000 |
|
10 |
Lower Columbia |
Construction |
Center for Vocational and Transitional Studies |
$45,196,000 |
$286,669,000 |
|
11 |
Columbia Basin |
Design & Construction |
Performing Arts Building Replacement |
$54,548,000 |
$341,247,000 |
|
12 |
Whatcom |
Design & Construction |
Technology and Engineering Center |
$51,042,000 |
$392,289,000 |
|
13 |
Cascadia |
Construction |
CC5 Gateway building |
$40,034,000 |
$432,323,000 |
|
14 |
Edmonds |
Construction |
Triton Learning Commons |
$43,716,000 |
$476,039,000 |
|
15 |
Renton |
Construction |
Health Sciences Center |
$51,858,000 |
$527,897,000 |
|
16 |
Bellingham |
Design & Construction |
Engineering Technology Center - Bldg J Replacement |
$18,559,000 |
$546,456,000 |
|
17 |
Centralia |
Construction |
Teacher Education and Family Development Center |
$12,808,000 |
$559,264,000 |
|
18 |
Spokane |
Construction |
Apprenticeship Center |
$42,861,000 |
$602,125,000 |
|
19 |
Skagit |
Construction |
Library/Culinary Arts Building |
$37,375,000 |
$639,500,000 |
|
20 |
Systemwide |
Data & Compliance |
Clean Buildings Compliance - Equipment Inventory and Reporting |
$10,612,000 |
$650,112,000 |
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 |
| Clover Park | Technical Training Facility Acquisition & Renovation | Acquisition & Renovation | $15,000,000 |
Contact
Darrell Jennings
Capital Budget Director
djennings@sbctc.edu
360-704-4382
