Repairs
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Buildings across campus are
feeling the crunch. Despite the
Knight Library’s expansion and
renovation in the early 1990s, the
library still has about $11,102,000
in deferred maintenance costs.
Andrew Bonamici, building
manager for the library, said the
building has a number of prob
lems, but the most pressing issue
now is figuring out a way to re
place the carpets, which are, in
certain areas, held together with
duct tape.
Cobwebs on windows have
also attracted dust and created a
greater need for window washing
services, he said.
Just before the passage of Ore
gon Ballot Measure 5 in 1994,
plans were in the works for addi
tional custodial positions at the li
brary, but those positions were cut
before they were filled. The
154,447 square foot building has
only a handful of janitors to clean
it each day, Bonamici said.
Individual colleges and non-ac
ademic departments have their
own fund-raising efforts. For ex
ample, the University Museum of
Art expects to complete an aggres
sive $12 million fund-raising
campaign by the end of the year
for a major expansion.
The museum is now
$2,123,000 behind in mainte
nance costs, about 2 percent of the
total for the University.
Additional efforts include sub
mitting a proposal to the Board of
Education this summer to ask the
Legislature for more money in the
capital budget to maintain school
facilities at all levels of education,
Swanson said.
“I’m hoping to have a long-term
strategy,” she said. Swanson said
she also hopes the deferred main
tenance costs will be cut in half
over the next 10 years.
Swanson and Hecht agreed that
if nothing is done to lower the
statewide deferred maintenance
price tag, it will continue to grow
and be far more expensive to rem
edy in the future.
“You’re going to pay now, or
much more in the future,” Hecht
said.
The problem has also expand
ed since the number of class
rooms and colleges increased to
accommodate the growing num
ber of students after the 1950s
baby boom.
Given the limited funding,
Bonamici said Facilities Services
does what it can, responding to
emergencies and carrying out two
to three major classroom remodel
ings per year.
They also recently finished a
major roof repair project. Hecht
said some of the buildings’ roofs
were in bad shape, leading to
more costly damage. He said the
leaks in Chiles Business Center
were so bad that children’s wad
ing pools were used instead of
buckets to catch the falling water.
“We’ve cured most of the leak
ing roofs,” Hecht said.
Bonamici said the Facilities
Services workers do a good job,
but money is always an issue.
“They are doing a fantastic job
considering what they have,” he
said.
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