After an eventful Fall Quarter meeting, Ohio University's Board of Trustees will address just three consent-agenda resolutions at its Lancaster session next week.
The board will make decisions regarding residence hall repairs and the naming of several OU centers.
The first resolution will approve the repair of the South Green catwalks, the repair of the Front Four patios on South Green and the painting of several residence hall exteriors on East, West and South greens.
Several South Green catwalks were closed last quarter because of concerns about their safety. The trustees will vote to approve a repair job with a project budget of $740,000, funded from the Residential Housing Reserve.
The board will also vote on a project — with a budget combining $755,000 from the Culinary Services Reserve and $795,000 from the Residential Housing Reserve — to repair the patio connecting Pickering, Brown, Mackinnon and Crawford halls to Nelson Dining Hall.
Finally, the first resolution will address the need for exterior painting at several dorm buildings throughout the campus, with a project budget of $550,000 funded from the Residential Housing Reserve.
The second resolution will rename Building #1103 on the OU's Chillicothe campus to the Technology and Business Development Center.
The final consent agenda resolution will name the recently renovated first-floor lounge in Baker University Center. Following an electronic survey that invited students to vote on the name, OU has dubbed the lounge the Bobcat Student Lounge.
At its meeting last quarter, the board passed resolutions authorizing debt issuance up to $160 million for deferred maintenance, a six-year $977.5 million capital improvement plan and the creation of a Columbus extension campus of OU's Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine.
The Board of Trustees will hold committee meetings next Thursday at Brasee Hall on the Lancaster Campus. The full board meeting will be at 10 a.m. next Friday in Brasee Hall.
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