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Bronx Community College's infrastructure issues and allocated funding
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Council Member Eric Dinowitz inquires about the funding allocated to Bronx Community College in the five-year capital plan, given its significant infrastructure and deferred maintenance issues. Executive Vice Chancellor Hector Batista provides details on the allocation and ongoing projects.
- Bronx Community College is allocated about $67 million for state of good repair, with a state match bringing the total to about $135 million
- A new boiler system project is nearing completion
- CUNY is being intentional about allocating resources to address critical needs, though it's not enough to address all challenges
Eric Dinowitz
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Alright.
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It's a big book.
1:39:21
Don't open it.
1:39:22
Too many pages.
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But a hundred one half of Bronx Community College's buildings are over 80 years old and have significant infrastructure and deferred maintenance issues.
1:39:32
How much was Bronx Community College allocated in the five year capital plan, and is this sufficient funding?
Hector Batista
1:39:42
Bronx Community College is getting roughly about $67,000,000 for state of good repair with a match from the state, which is comes up to about a hundred and $35,000,000.
1:39:55
As we as we one of the projects that we undertook was to make sure that Bronx Community College had a new boiler, a new system.
1:40:05
I'm happy to report that that project is almost completed.
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And a project that we're sort of very proud of.
1:40:13
Now what we're doing at Bronx Community College is we really are trying to determine the lifeline of some of the systems so we don't have the same problems we had before.
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And we're actually being very intentional on how we allocating the resources there.
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For any college in our system, it could be said that we don't have enough resources.
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As I stated, we need $600,000,000 a year.
1:40:32
Right?
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We have to make tough decisions on how we allocate those resource.
1:40:38
The good news is under our new vice chancellor for facility manage, we now have the ability to know every system and out and across our 300 plus buildings, the lifeline of that system, and and be more intentional to be able to really allocate the resources there.
1:40:56
And we believe that the resources we've allocated for Bronx Community College are enough resources right now to address the critical needs, not enough resources to deal with all the challenges that they have.