The cost of the Elton and Janice Gallegly Center for Public Service and Civic Engagement totals $3 million. This would fund the construction of the Center, endowment of fellowships, a speaker series, digitizing Congressman Galleglyโs archives and a scholars in residence program.
Out of the $3 million budget, $1.3 million has been raised thus far, said Associate Vice President of University Advancement Kristine Calara.
The $1.3 million breaks down into several different areas:
– $580,000: cost of constructing the physical Center in the Pearson Library
There are currently different bids pending on various parts of the construction process. The company Northwest Excavating is donating time for leveling the ground, and other materials such as lumber and framing materials are expected to be partially donated as well, said Associate Vice President of Facility Operations & Planning Ryan Van Ommeren in an email interview.
โI will add that the sound wall itself is less than 1 percent of the project budget,โ Van Ommeren said.
-$500,000: estate gift from Dorothy Hammond that is in processingย
-$111,000: amount raised for seven fellowshipsย
Fellowships cost approximately $37,000 per fellow.
-$98,000: raised for speaker seriesย
The next steps in fundraising for the remaining amount of the $3 million total budget are to endow the Gallegly fellowships and digitize Galleglyโs congressional archives. California Lutheran University President Chris Kimball said that endowing the fellowships and speaker series is the most important part of the next step.
โOne of the hopes is that the space, the Center itself, will get people excited and say, โOK this is really going to happen, itโs really going to be there, Iโm now willing and excited to give to the fellowships,โโ Kimball said. โThatโs been one thing thatโs frankly been disappointing and one of the hopes is that people are kind of sitting on the sidelines waiting for the space will now get off the sidelines.โ
Funds that need to be raised/approved to complete the $3 million budget:ย
-$1 million: money needed to endow the Gallegly fellowship
To endow the fellowship would mean investing to ensure that the full-tuition fellowship for the Masters in Public Policy Administration degree continues to grow in perpetuity according to Calara and Kimball.
-$98,000: grant proposal to the National Archives and Records Administration
This proposal is for a two-year plan for an archivist to sort through the approximately 450 boxes of records from Galleglyโs 13 terms in Congress, and digitize one-third of the appropriate records.
โWeโre not going to digitize everything. Weโre only going to digitize the stuff thatโs relevant and it will be available online,โ Calara said.
-$101,000: cost to digitize the remaining two-thirds of the archivesย
โ[Archiving] is a very special field, they go through, they sort all of the files and put them all in these acid-free folders and acid-free boxes to make sure that they last forever. And then this archivist is going to determine which paper, what documents are relevant for research,โ Calara said.
Currently, construction of the Center in the Pearson Library is on hold until the end of the fall 2017 semester in response to the concerns raised by students and faculty regarding noise during finals preparation. The delayed construction means that the Center will likely be completed at the end of the spring 2018 semester.
โThey were thinking they were going to start construction in November so now weโve pushed it back so that means the completion date will be later,โ Kimball said. โI would think at the earliest, late May.โ
Nicki Schedler
Reporter