A second building at Collin College's Technical Campus in Allen is among the projects in the college's $600 million bond proposal, which goes before Collin County voters when early voting opens Monday, Oct. 19.
The college's bond website lists an "Allen Technical Campus Workforce & Academic Building" among the Phase II projects the bond would fund. The college says enrollment at the Technical Campus has grown more than 56% over the past five years.
The new building would add general classrooms and labs for students working toward academic degrees, and more space for the automotive technology, diesel technology and automotive specialties programs.
The Technical Campus itself came out of the college's last bond, a $600 million package voters approved in 2017. The Dallas Morning News reported this week that the 2017 bond also paid for campuses in Celina, Farmersville and Wylie, a McKinney public safety training center and an IT center on the Frisco campus.
What else is in Proposition A
The single proposition on the ballot covers what the college calls Phases II and III of its Destination 2030 master plan. Besides the Allen building, the second phase includes a McKinney Campus workforce building, an academic building in Wylie, a workforce expansion at the Courtyard Center in Plano, a workforce building in Celina and an aviation academy in McKinney with hangar and simulator space.
The third phase includes a health sciences expansion in Frisco, a workforce expansion in Wylie, a workforce building in Farmersville and new Anna and Royse City campuses.
The college says its credit enrollment has grown 31% in a decade and that the bond would add room in more than 20 career and technical pathways. Its renderings and project descriptions are labeled conceptual and subject to change.
Taxes
Collin College's tax rate has been $0.08122 per $100 of value since 2018, and the college says it expects the rate to stay there if the bond passes. The ballot itself will carry the statement "THIS IS A TAX INCREASE," according to the sample ballot language posted on the college's financial page.
