The capital budget agreement released by one state House and Senate on Saturday was approved Sunday and sent to Gov. Bob Ferguson’s desk.
The construction plan funds top university priorities around minor works and work toward replacing Heald Hall on the Pullman campus but notably does not fund construction of the Team Health Education Building in Spokane.
Funded in the budget were the following:
- Full funding for WSU’s $40 million request for minor works preservation.
- $5 million of the university’s $20 million request for minor works program, which pays for equipment purchases and small-scale renovations.
- Full funding for WSU’s $25 million request to demolish Heald Hall and design a replacement.
- Full funding for WSU’s $3 million request for a chiller plant upgrade at Vancouver.
- Full funding for WSU’s $3 million request to design a new Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Lab satellite at Puyallup.
- Full funding for WSU’s $10 million request to construct a new plant growth facility at Wenatchee.
- Full funding for WSU’s $500,000 for pre-design of a dairy modernization project at Pullman.
- The budget also provided funds for two Pullman projects WSU did not request: $750,000 for greenhouse renovations and $150,000 for beef center renovations.
The agreement did not fund the following:
- WSU’s $58 million request to build the Team Health Education Center in Spokane.
- WSU’s $3.5 million request for systemwide classroom renovations.
- WSU’s $3.5 million request for systemwide wireless enhancements.
- WSU’s $3 million request for lab renovations at WSU Tri-Cities.
- WSU’s $500,000 request for predesign of a new engineering building in Pullman.
- WSU’s $5 million request to support Clean Building Act requirements.
- WSU’s request for funds to support Climate Commitment Act requirements.