Trades center will be among first projects following Chemeketa bond passage
Chemeketa Community College President Jessica Howard waited until a Thursday tally of ballots to get out the champagne.
By then, enough ballots from the college’s four-county service area had been counted for her to claim victory for Chemeketa’s tax renewal measure. It allows the college to borrow $140 million to fund construction and renovation projects, with the debt to be repaid through property taxes over the next 21 years.
It took Howard two attempts to…
