Volume 45 Number 4
Thursday, Oct. 27, 1988
Funds scarce for library by Fo""' Hale Wi1h the push for funding now in i1s cigh1h year. se"Veral ''ifs" cloud the dream or a new library for North Idaho CoUegc. If S3•.2 million in funding is approved by the sta1e Join1 Finance and Appropriations Commiuee and if NIC can raise SS00,000 in pnvaic support, a new library could be ~non campus wi1hin one year or funding approval, Public Rdations Direc1or Steve Schenk said. Approval is expected between January and March, 1989, after the s1ar1 of the new legislative session. Thii funding does not include money for furnishing.,, equipment and an expanded coUecuon; these would be supplied through more private funding, he \aid. Thi~is the fir~1 part or a two-year fun . ding proposal prcsen1ed 10 the S1atc Board o( Education ond 1hr Permanent Oulldlnf Fund Advi,ory Council. NIC Pret iden1 Roberi Ocnncn !aid. The following year, NI C would again ~eek funding , Schenk so1d. The old library would be remodeled for cln\sroom and office space a1 a cos1 or $900,000, he suid, and this would include an "energy retrofil" and addition or air conditioning in 1hc old admin1\tr111ion building. " If we move 1he llbrnry out or its pre sent locnuon, thi., Is spncc we badly need bu1 can't use in it ) prcsc111 configura1ion," Shenk \aid. " It would have to be remodeled. The pion call\ for \Orne offict'S over there w 1h01 we could bring 1hc Regis1r11r and admi,sions and bu ~lncs~ orticc:5 all In onl! locotlon, "hich would be much more convenient for ,:udc1m.'' Schl'nk ,rud 1hc !><'hoot has come forward wi1h 11 co~1-crrt.:11vc nnd realist!\! propo~nl \\hiah provide:. for II nC\\ lib111ry, computl'r ccn1cr ,me.I a 1elt<'ommu11ica1ions center 10 be uvcd J01111ly wuh 1hc Uni,·cr.U) of Idaho. Man) people 111 Nonh Idaho " Ould 111.c to )CC thi\ building bmh , Sehenl. ~1d lwo groups make rC1:0mmcndat ions in Idaho for ..:opual conmu, 1100 proJects: Idaho S1a1c Board or Education 11nd 1hc Pctma11cn1 Build ing fund Adv1 )0r)' Council.
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Recommendations from them ha,·e not in the past, Scbetik said. bu1 the real dccision-malcing power rests with the Join1 Finance and Appropriatioos Commi.itce in the legislature and the governor's office. With the building.sat hospitals, pnsons and universities aging around 1he stale, I.be building or NIC's new library and 1he retrofil of 1he 46-year-old administration building arc two of many projccu needing funding in Idaho, he said. "I 1hink both groups recognize 1hc serious need this college has for a new library," he said. " The rub comes in when we (Staie of Idaho) try to make the available dollar fit all the recommendations they're going lo make. All 1he rcqucsu for capuaJ cons1rucuon money that will be generated by 1hc stale arc four or five times grca1er than 1he funds available 10 meet those needs." The proposal has received good ~uppon from faculty, staff and 1he stale Board of educa1 ion, and the Permanent Building l· und Ad visory Council met ,n Au1ust 10 review the propo\nl, he s:i.id If NIC receives the funding, 5C1 at S3.7 mllhon by the Board of Education. I.he college will have 10 find S.S00,000 m support 1hrough priva1e means, Schenl said. " We' re going to raise more, there's no qum 1on about 1hat," he sAJd. " It 's almost a chicl.en nod egg l1nd of proposi1 ion Which needs come firs1?" he sn1d. " Dr lknneu , I Imo" , " ould hke 10 )CC a \ubstnnual show of 5upporl from locnl people. II the found111on could come forward with SI00,000, or C\en SS0,000. ond cemunl) $250,000. that could be Ill· ed 10 inOucnce 1hc lciu\lnture in us dm· \IOD nbou1 fu nding" the libl'llJ) Lil e" he, the rawng of local suppon " outd be eru.1cr 1f the itate "ould ITI.31.e 1 comm11mcn1 011 fundJ~. he wd " I thml. that the p1C\."C) nrc in place Wc'w: go1 the ngh1 plan, \\e\c 1101 good suppor1 for ii, " ' can sho" unqucsuo03bl> n rc:iJ \trons ntttl for it, but 1here art Olhtt people out there wuh \1mrlarl> '>Cno~ needs and JU\I no1 enough mooe> to go arou nd," he said. bttn a problem
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