TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Gov. Chris Gregoire wants to shake up construction plans at community colleges in Washington.
She wants to fund some “shovel projects” ahead of ones still in the planning stage.
The News Tribune of Tacoma reports that would disrupt the system the state’s 34 colleges use to seek construction money and could pit the colleges against each other in lobbying the Legislature.
Under the system proposed by the governor, Clover Park Technical College in Tacoma will have to wait longer for another building needed for its nursing classes.