By now everyone has seen the changes being made on campus. The Liberal Arts building is being fortified to minimize the damage done during earthquakes.

There is also a project in the makings that will add two more buildings to the campus which will house the Administrative Support office that will be located next to the ATM where the trailer is located now and also in the C-9 parking lot.

The latter will house Marketing and other classes.

Mike Sebak is the Director of Physical Plant on campus; his division is involved with the planning of the project.

However an outside contracter is being utilized to erect the facilities.

“We contracted out for work with Turn Key Schools. They do a lot of work on elementary schools and high schools. Because the buildings will be structured on campus we had to contract out and unfortunately we could not use students to help with the construction,” Sebak said.

These facilities will be in transportable buildings. “What this means is that the buildings are built off campus in modules and then they’ll be assembled on campus like a jigsaw puzzle.They (the Administration) have been planning these buildings for about eight months to a year now,” Sebak said. There are other projects on standby. There is a Science and Math Complex scheduled to be built by 2004 or 2006.

Proposition 47 provided the funds to get these projects off the ground.

The funds that are being used to facilitate the projects will not be affected by the budget crunch.