BLINN BOARD TO VOTE ON ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES CONTRACTS FOR BRENHAM, WALLER-HARRIS CO. CAMPUS PROJECTS
The Blinn Board of Trustees will meet on Thursday to take the next steps in projects on the Brenham Campus and Waller-Harris County Campus.
The board will consider authorizing administrators to proceed with a contract for architectural services related to the master planning and design of a sports and intramural zone on the Brenham Campus, as well as an academic building at the Waller-Harris County Campus.
Trustees agreed to seek qualifications for architectural services for the two projects at their November meeting.
The sports and intramural zone on the Brenham Campus will be located on Old Mill Creek Road, near the W.J. “Bill” Rankin Agricultural Complex. It is slated to include competition soccer and softball fields, a football practice field, and a 27,000-square-foot field house for team locker rooms and coaches’ offices. The projected budget is $29.5 million, with a timeline for completion of Fiscal Year 2028.
For the Waller-Harris County Campus academic building project, the College plans to build an 87,000-square-foot facility with an estimated budget of $68 million and a schedule of Fiscal Year 2028 for completion.
Other action items on Thursday will include voting on contracts for replacing the roof at the J. Hal and Allyne Machat Music Facility on the Brenham Campus, phase two of a water heater replacement project at the Blinn College Park Apartments in Brenham, and mechanical repairs at Buildings A and G on the Bryan Campus.
Trustees will also receive monthly administrative and financial reports, along with enrollment, housing and graduation reports.
The board will meet Thursday at 10 a.m. in the third-floor board room of the Brenham Campus Administration Building. The meeting will be livestreamed on Blinn College’s YouTube channel.
Washington County charges us a tax that goes to Blinn. Do the satellite campuses also collect a tax from their respective counties or does Brenham carry the entire load?
“Tax dollars make up 2 percent of Blinn’s annual operating revenue, with 72 percent coming from tuition, fees and auxiliaries and the remaining 26 percent coming from state funding.
Property tax revenue is required by state law to support operations within the taxing district; in Blinn’s case, all property taxes support the Brenham Campus.”
Source: https://kwhi.com/2024/09/20/blinn-board-approves-increased-tax-rate-hears-preliminary-fall-enrollment-report/