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March 25, 2008, 01:41 PM ET
Amid Outcry, Education Officials in Denver Will Attempt to Finish a Building Without State Money
Only a dream? A science building at the Auraria Higher Education Center is endangered, thanks to a state budget shortfall. (Image courtesy Auraria Higher Education Center)
The outcry over a hole in the ground at Denver’s Auraria Higher Education Center, which is supposed to be a much-needed science building, is getting louder.
“Higher education bore the brunt of budget cuts during the last economic downturn in Colorado, and it looks as if that unacceptable pattern is about to repeat,” said an editorial in The Denver Post. “Of course, the larger issue at work is the current tangle of constitutional spending restrictions that make the state budgetary process a convoluted exercise. This is another example of how worthy projects get shoved aside when revenues are projected to dip and mandated spending rules make a mockery of representational government.”
The Rocky Mountain News said that education officials would move ahead and try to finish the building, regardless of whether the state would support them.
“We’ve got $35-million and we’re going to spend it,” Dean Wolf, executive vice president of the Auraria campus, told a gaggle of reporters while standing at the job site. “We will have to find a way to finish this one way or another.” —Scott Carlson
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