Clatsop Community College
1653 Jerome, Astoria OR 97103
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Contact: Nadine Faith (503) 338-2306

CCC Moves Forward With Bond Measure to Fund New Campus

Clatsop Community College filed a $24 million bond measure at the Clatsop County Elections Office Monday that will ask voters to fund a new campus.

PHOTO: Cathie Schurman (left) of the Clatsop County Elections Office, assists CCC Board Member Marilyn Lane (center) and President Greg Hamann in filing a $24 million bond measure asking voters to fund a new facility for the college.

The CCC’s board of directors made a unanimous decision to move forward with the request during its meeting held last Tuesday at the South County Center in Seaside.
If passed in the November election, money from the bond will go toward building new, fully accessible facilities to replace the current Jerome Street campus in Astoria.
The new facility would also increase the physical capacity of the college, to address the projected growth of higher education in Clatsop County, and support the expansion of programs such as nursing, small business development and transferable lower division university courses. It would also go toward the improvement of infrastructure, parking and other site improvements necessary to support the new campus.

Clatsop Community College is the oldest accredited community college in Oregon. With an enrollment of over 7,200 students and growing, and many of its current facilities dating back to the early 1900s, the college is acting on a long-overdue need to expand its campus to continue to provide low-cost, high quality education to Clatsop County and surrounding regions.