House Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1934 Building 8 Classrooms/ Laboratory, Valencia
Requester:	Sanford Shugart		Organization:		Valencia Community College
Project Title:	Building 8 Classrooms/ Laboratory, Valencia		Date Submitted:		01/31/2000 10:19:16 AM
District Member:	Allen Trovillion		Service Area:		Regional
Counties Affected:	Orange, Osceola
Recipient:	Valencia Community College		Contact:		William Mullowney
	P.O. Box 3028		Contact Phone:		(072) 995-0003 417
	Orlando 32802
Project Description:
Building 8 classrooms/laboratories on the East Campus. Funding will be used for the planning, construction and furnishing of all equipment for a 70,000 square foot classroom building.
Services Provided/Benefit to State:
Education is the service provided with much economic development being the benefit to the State. Valencia Community College, Central Florida's largest institution of post-secondary education, serves 52,000 students through four campuses, distance learning, and on-site in business and industry. The college offers 40 associate in science degree and certificate programs which focus on preparing students for direct entry into the workforce, for enhancing or accelerating their career paths, for changing careers, or for upgrading their job skills in their present careers. Valencia custom molds its educational and training products around the needs of its hundreds of business clients, with a focus on six critical industries targeted by regional economic leaders: Business, Entertainment, Film and Television, Health Care, High Technology Industries, Public Service, and Tourism.
Measurable Outcome Anticipated:
Student Performance is the anticipated measurable outcome. Increase the level of student persistence and academic performance as measured by increased retention, graduation and transfer to the upper division. Increase the performance of at-risk students who are placed in remedial education as a result of entrance testing to approximate the success rate of students whose test scores enable them to begin college-level work upon admission. Increase student performance through the use of technologies that support improved mastery of content, and integration of concepts, and enable them to use thechnologies on the job. Increase East Campus students' job placement and work force competitiveness through inproved access to programs and services.
Amount requested from the State for this project this year:				$8,956,550
Total cost of the project:		$12,956,550

Request has been made to fund:			Construction
Is there Local Government or Private match for this request?				Yes
	Cash Amount:	$4,000,000
Was this project previously funded by the State?				No
Is future-year funding likely to be requested?				No
Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request?				Yes
	Agency:	Education, Department Of, And Commissioner Of Education
Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget?				Yes
Is there a documented need for this project?				Yes
	Documentation:	Continuing growth in student FTE, coupled with extremely high space utilization in the East Campus.
Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)?				Yes
	Hearing Body:	Orange and Oceola Delegations
	Meeting Date:	11/15/1999