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NASHVILLE — Gov. Bill Haslam’s proposed 2016-17 budget calls for $35.9 million in spending to put UTC’s old Lupton Library to new uses as well as well as renovate portions of the Chattanooga university’s Fine Arts Center.
The project is among dozens the Republican governor wants to fund through use of $581.6 million from an estimated $850 million surplus of one-time money from Fiscal Year 2015, which ended June 30, as well as projected surpluses in the current 2016 budget.
Haslam’s total proposal envisions at $34.8 billion budget for the fiscal year startingJuly 1.
In regard to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Haslam’s budget specifically provides $28.43 million project, which would create a “student success center” in the former Vine Street library as well as new classrooms and other space.