UNC system President Erskine Bowles said this morning the university should focus on paying down its massive backlog of deferred maintenance before approving any new facilities across the 17-campus system.
Speaking this morning during a meeting of the UNC system's Board of Governors, Bowles has painted a fairly bleak budget picture for the upcoming year. He said he's told campus chancellors to plan for 10 percent budget cuts.
With that as the economic backdrop, Bowles is recommending against new construction, particularly since the university has a backlog of deferred maintenance totaling $2.1 billion.
He must have read the News & Observer Sunday.
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Thu, 10/07/2010 - 21:23 — bilgewaterLet these august institutions provide sensible solutions to the maintenance problems facing UNC.
Why should we continue to foster dependency on solutions which have failed. We need new ideas to cut costs and get rid of grasping contractors on campus. One helpful change would be penalty contracts used by commercial firms who have to get occupancy.
UNC's Bowles: Pay down deferred maintenance
Thu, 10/07/2010 - 12:58 — igliigliThe UNC System must stop wasting hundreds of millions on sports.
Fire ALL the coaches and sports teams and use the money for academics.