BOSTON – Gov. Deval L. Patrick last Wednesday filed a 10-year, $2 billion higher-education bond measure with the Mass. Legislature that he described as “an historic capital investment in the Commonwealth’s public colleges and universities.”
The measure includes money for building or renovation projects at every community and state college in the Bay State, and every campus in the University of Massachusetts system, and reserves a portion of the budget for emergency needs “and new capital investment priorities that will emerge over the next 10 years,” the governor’s office said.
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UMass-Dartmouth would get $57.1 million of the $1 billion allocated to the UMass system, for library and basic infrastructure repairs, classroom upgrades, retrofitting of vacated spaces and air conditioning improvements. Bristol Community College would receive $44 million to modernize BCC Science Building “E” and Siegel Health Technologies Building “C.”
The last major higher-education bond in Massachusetts was a 10-year, $618 million bond measure enacted in 1995, the governor’s office said. •
