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THE C L A C K A M A S P R IN T | JA N . 21, 2015 | V O L . 48 ISSUE 9 Planning for band money use begins n Nov. 5 2014, Clackam as coun by Erm Carey and Maddy Kays O the checking account o r general fund. ty voted yes for a $90 m illion TCP: W hen you guys w ork w ith architects, do b o n d th at will finance updates you contract out to a private firm? O r is there som e to b o th Clackam as C om m unity body th at you go to? College’s O regon City and H ar C och ran : W hat w ere required to do is m ake m ony cam puses. In the m onths th at have followed, ‘Q uality Based Selections’ or QBS, and w hat we’ll m any are left w ondering: w hat exactly is going to be do is we’ll advertise in the paper saying, ‘We’re go done w ith th at large sum o f money? ing to build this building. Anyone who’s interested The Clackam as P rint sat dow n w ith D ean of send us your qualifications’. We’ll probably get 10 C am pus Services, Bob C ochran, to get m ore infor or 15 or 20 firms sending us packets. They tell us w ho they are, w ho their team m em bers are, sim ilar m ation on the school’s next steps. projects they’ve had. A nd then from that, we’ll have The C lackam as P rin t: W hat are the biggest proj a team review these qualifications, and we’ll deter ects th at fall u n d er the b o n d and w hat gets priority? m ine how m any we want, and pick from the top B ob C o ch ran : The biggest projects are the H ar three. A nd th en from the top three, we’ll say ‘okay, m ony Projects. We’re going to build another wing you guys are qualified to do this work, we w ant to o f classroom s and office spaces. The nu m b er o f get proposals from you now ’ So they will give us ac floors is n o t in question right now, b u t w ere look tual proposals for the work, and we’ll evaluate those ing to see how m any we can build w ith the m oney proposals and select the top firm to w ork with. The we have and any fu rth er m oney th at comes in. So state rules requires us to go through th at process. th at probably will be one o f the first projects we will TCP: W hat will happen w hen the com m unity undertake in this construction. On this [Oregon City] cam pus, w ere assum ing th at the center is being rebuilt? C och ran : The com m unity center has two Industrial Technical C enter will be one o f o ur first buildings, w hich will be com bined w ith the auto options. O ne is to tear the existing building dow n m otive rem odeling. We’re talking about taking the and build on top o f it, or m aybe the com m unity m anufacturing out o f the auto area, so m anufactur center doesn’t go right there anym ore, so we w ould build it som ew here else. That way the com m uni ty center could stay operational until we’re done building, then tear the old one down. That’ll all depend on where we decide the com m unity center will actually go. TCP: W hat about the classrooms? I know a lot o f the chem istry classroom s will be updated, and w hen does that start? Cochran: Well that’s D ejardin phase two. It’s kind o f m ore o f a simple project because we know w here it’s going to go, it’s going to be on one side or the other on D ejardin, and a relatively simple design. That one is k ind o f a slam dunk, all things considered. TCP: Besides buildings, will there be any b o n d m oney for scholarships? C o ch ran : You can’t use bond m oney for schol arships, it has to be for capital. It can only be bricks and m o rtar and classrooms, all those things that you can touch. This interview has been edited fo r clarity and space. ing gets b o th sides. Som etim e thereafter it will probably be the D ejardin phase, w ith the five science labs and the classrooms. A nd th en the com m unity center building will probably be the last one. A nd again we haven’t really set up a start tim e and end tim e o f w here we’re going to go. TCP: W hat is ‘debt service’? C o c h ran : W hen we built H arm ony cam pus, the college borrow ed th at money, like a m ortgage al m ost. So right now we have to m ake ou r m ortgage paym ents out o f o u r general fund, w hich m eans the m oney th at we used to operate the college, we’re going to refinance th at m oney using b o n d money. So the m oney th at we raised in the b o n d is going to pay the m ortgage. T hen that’ll free up m oney in OcrcatfuaLffl PtogrEro Massing Sketch o f main building on Harmony Campus, with a 3D rendering o f the planned additional construction.
