BANGOR, Maine — A housing upgrade and creation of new laboratory space are among the items on the agenda when the Board of Trustees of the University of Maine System meets.
The trustees are to meet Monday in Bangor. They will consider creation of two new lab spaces in a currently vacant part of the Southern Maine campus Bioscience Research Center. The project would be funded by the Maine Economic Improvement Fund.
They’ll also take up a plan to demolish up to 10 outdated apartment buildings and make improvements at the remaining 26 buildings, including installation of a sprinkler system, at Orono’s University Park.
Establishment of a Master of Laws one-year professional degree program at the University of Maine School of Law in Portland is also on the agenda.
Two points: surely those ten “outdated apartment buildings” could be refurbished as low-income housing? And law schools all over the country are reporting falling applications because new lawyers can’t find work.
Yeah, that’s what they need….low income housing in the middle of a college campus.
It’s not a matter of reburbishing, it’s a matter up Life-Safety regulations and State Codes. To bring the buildings up to code would cost a substantial amount of capital and thus starting from scratch building dated housing units is the logic behind this decision I would think.
Just what this country needs.. to graduate more lawyers on the backs of taxpayers. What state house genius thought this baby up?