From a UCLA media release yesterday:
UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero and Head Football Coach Jim Mora
announced today a campaign to raise private funds for a comprehensive
football training facility to be located on the west side of Spaulding
Field, the practice field for the Bruin football team. The planned
state-of-the-art facility is intended to house a locker room, athletic
training area, strength and conditioning facility, coaches’ offices,
team meeting rooms, equipment rooms and video rooms, in addition to
several elements that will feature the storied history of UCLA Football.
The project, estimated to cost $50 million, will be funded by private
donations. A feasibility study analyzed the site conditions, and the
university has elected to move the project forward with a request for
proposal to select an architect. The selected firm will work directly
with Guerrero, Mora, the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics and the
university to develop the size, layout and renderings of the proposed
facility. As funding thresholds are achieved, project construction will
begin...
Full release at http://www.uclabruins.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=30500&ATCLID=209266387
There is a sense that if funds are raised privately - that is, if they are not state funds - no trade-offs are involved. The Regents, in approving capital projects, behave as though that is true. However, it assumes there is a pool of donors out there that will only give to the one specified project and would not have donated to some other project. Does anyone look into that assumption? Is it valid? Just asking.
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