THE C L A C K A M A S P R IN T
V O L .48 ISSUE 2
OCT. 2 2 ,2 0 1 4
Eailedband would
leave bad taste
by Tim Young
he Print asked the question “what
would happen if the $90 mil
lion bond measure were to fail?”
“There will be cutbacks if the
bond doesn’t pass,” said Bob Co
chran, dean of campus services at
Clackamas Community College.
The college would also lose out on addressing a
roughly $80 million deferred maintenance backlog
of campus facilities that already exists, Cochran said.
Deferred maintenance is putting off maintenance re
pairs on the physical structures of the college in or
der to meet other budget obligations that CCC has.
The campus is in need of repair in certain
high traffic areas. Broken pipes have recent
ly caused a couple hundred thousand dollars
in damages in the library. New electrical work
would likely help prevent future power outages.
Sharon Parker, department chair of business adminis
tration at CCC, has heard advice like, “Don’t drink wa
ter out of that [particular] fountain,” due to the taste of
the water from the pipes. Old pipes, outdated electrical
systems and other issues will remain if the bond fails.
Photo by Nick Hadley
Passing the bond Will not solve all the maintenance CCC President Joanne Truesdell shows off a
issues overnight, but would be a step in the direction Pauling chemistry lab that has not changed
of addressing the issues on campus, Cochran said, since she was a CCC student in the early 1980s.
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