Status of Prop. 47 Projects

In November 2002, voters statewide supported additional investment in our state’s educational infrastructure. Proposition 47, a statewide bond measure, provided $13 billion for educational facilities. In Orange County voters approved Proposition 47, providing $500 million to our K-12 schools, colleges and universities. Thank you for your support.

Here is an update on Proposition 47’s impact here at Cal State Fullerton:

Fire and Life Safety Projects The schematic and preliminary design phases of this project have been completed. The construction of the project is on schedule to be completed in late 2005. Since the project has many discrete subsets to it, from fire alarms to fire hydrants to signage and keying, each piece of the project will be completed as soon as it is practical to do so. This project will be a great benefit to protecting the university’s students, faculty and staff.

Telecommunications Infrastructure Plans for this project are almost completed. This project provides suitable spaces and pathways for telecommunications wiring and data switches that simply did not exist when the majority of Fullerton's buildings were designed. Whereas 1960's era "telephone closets" required very little space and almost no environmental control, modern data communications equipment requires stable temperatures and air flow. "Category 6" wiring will be placed to every classroom, office, and lab to support higher data speeds, and additional fiber optic cabling will be installed to allow network speeds to be boosted to the multi-gigabit range campuswide. Once this infrastructure upgrade is completed, the data network will be updated through a separate project to the latest products which support the higher bandwidth needs of interactive instruction.

Kinesiology and Health Sciences Building Equipment (formerly Physical Education) This wonderful new facility was completed this past summer, and was equipped and available for teaching when classes began in August 2003. Students are already benefiting from the building and from the new equipment in classrooms, laboratories, and activity spaces.