Your VOTE 2013: Question 2 University of Maine System Improvements

MAINE - This year there are five bond questions going before voters on November 5th, 2013 totaling
$182 million with interest. RCN America Network will break down each bond question.

Do you favor a $15,500,000 bond issue to enhance educational and employment opportunities for Maine citizens and students by updating and improving existing laboratory and classroom facilities of the University of Maine System statewide?

Below is where the money will be spent on if question 2 is passed.

$5,500,000 Orono campus – to invest in renovations, capital improvements and equipment in classrooms and laboratories to support science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines.

$1,200,000 Augusta and Bangor campuses – to renovate and upgrade science and nursing laboratories.

$1,200,000 Farmington campus – to renovate the science facilities in Preble Hall and Ricker Hall, including approximately four laboratories.

$1,200,000 Fort Kent campus – to renovate and expand the nursing laboratory and to support geographic information system technology for applications in the forestry industry.

$1,200,000 Machias campus – to renovate and improve Powers Hall (including repairing its exterior), which currently houses music and art classrooms, the performing art center, art gallery, administrative offices and student services, and for laboratory upgrades in the science building.

$1,200,000 Presque Isle campus – to renovate and upgrade space, equipment and furnishings (including microscopes and fume hoods) in laboratories for the science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs.


$4,000,000 University of Southern Maine campuses (Portland, Gorham, and Lewiston) – to renovate science laboratories, including those for biology, chemistry, physics, geosciences, environmental sciences, nursing and occupational therapy.