FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 10, 2004

Contact: Nancy Hopkins
707-864-9311

Solano College Vacaville Site Approved by State

The 17-member California Community Colleges Board of Governors unanimously gave Solano College officials the approval on Monday to move forward with the development and building of the Vacaville Center at a 60-acre proposed site in the North Village Development off Vaca Valley Parkway. The state board’s approval affirms the SCC Governing Board’s decision to move forward with the project. The Vacaville Center is expected to be completed by 2007.

“This marks a major step in moving forward with our plans to build a permanent center in Vacaville utilizing Measure G funding. The opening of the Vacaville Center will be the realization of our dreams to offer first class higher education opportunities to the citizens of Vacaville and the surrounding communities,” stated Paulette J. Perfumo, Ph.D., SCC President/Superintendent.

There had been a question as to whether the proposed site meets state law due to the landing approach for the Nut Tree airport. The college located documentation that proves that the landing approach in question has been changed and no longer impacts the proposed campus.

Measure G will infuse $124.5 million into the Solano Community College system through 2009 for new college facilities plus upgrades to the existing campus infrastructure. The new Vallejo and Vacaville facilities will be approximately 47,000 square feet each with modern classrooms and computer labs to meet the educational needs of the expanding Solano County population. Two weeks ago the college held a groundbreaking ceremony in Vallejo to begin construction on the permanent facility.

The main campus of Solano College in Fairfield will have a new student learning center, an extensively remodeled resources building which will house the library and classrooms, and upgrade the campus infrastructure with repairs to electrical transformers, plumbing, and the aging air conditioning and heating systems.