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October 27, 2011

Budget committee recommends more funds for capital projects

Pitt trustees this week recommended increasing funding by $8,656,965 in the fiscal year 2012 capital budget to cover projected costs for four capital projects previously approved by the trustees property and facilities committee. (See Oct. 13 University Times.)

According to press materials distributed at the Oct. 25 trustees budget committee meeting, the four projects are expected to total $72,356,965, of which $63,700,000 previously was allocated by trustees.

The budget committee recommended that the full board approve the following:

• An additional $4 million for freshman student housing, under construction at Fifth Avenue and University Place;

• $3,380,765 for an expansion project in Thomas Detre Hall;

• $776,200 for basement laboratory renovations in Old Engineering Hall, and

• $500,000 for the Greensburg campus sustainable office and classroom building.

The Board of Trustees is expected to act on the budget committee recommendations at its meeting tomorrow, Oct. 28.

—Peter Hart

Filed under: Feature,Volume 44 Issue 5

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