Tennessee Tech requesting $18 million from the state to fund a revised list of capital maintenance projects for the upcoming fiscal year.
Vice President for Planning and Finance Dr. Claire Stinson said the university adjusted its priorities since the original budget request was presented in June. Stinson said the changes include the removal of a utility infrastructure project.
“We did add three additional projects,” Stinson said, “We got some better estimates on some of the things, but overall, we’re still asking for $18 million in maintenance dollars. These are what we actually submitted.”
Stinson said the university removed the utility infrastructure work from the maintenance list because it is now being sought as a separate $30 million capital outlay project. Stinson said attempting to complete that large-scale infrastructure work through smaller, piecemeal maintenance funding was not an effective strategy.
Stinson said the university also received updated cost estimates for several other projects that influenced the final submission to the state.
The maintenance funding is part of a broader capital budget that includes ongoing priorities for a new life science building and a social sciences building. Stinson said those major construction projects remain the university’s top priorities and saw no revisions during this budget cycle.
