How can MLC afford to operate and maintain another building?
These costs, estimated to be $280,000 annually ($40,000 custodial, $230,000 utilities, $10,000 maintenance), would begin no earlier than August 2009. MLC is factoring these additional costs in its operating budgets beginning with the 2009-2010 school year. Since the time that the preliminary proposed budget for 2009-2010 was developed, MLC has implemented energy-saving measures that should have a positive impact on the budget, producing annual savings of more than $300,000, which would offset the maintenance costs of an additional building on campus.
