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Community colleges ask for matched state funding for three projects and flag $8 million cap as outdated
Summary
During the May 2 hearing on Senate Bill 5506, community college leaders described three new Article 11‑G projects (Clackamas, Mt. Hood, Klamath) totaling $20,000,000 in state funds matched by local funds, and asked the committee to consider that the $8,000,000 per‑project cap has not kept pace with inflation.
Leaders of Oregon community colleges told the Joint Capital Construction Committee on May 2 that the governor's recommended budget includes three new Article 11‑G projects totaling $20,000,000 in state funds matched by approximately $60,600,000 in local funds. The presenters also urged the committee to revisit the statutory $8,000,000 cap on state funding per community college project, which witnesses said has not kept pace with inflation.
John Wyckoff, deputy director of the Oregon Community College Association, described the community colleges' collaborative…
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