School officials asking Regents for $13 million more for renovations
KCJJ Staff
02/24/19
University of Iowa officials are asking the Iowa Board of Regents to approve increases of roughly $13 million for a pair of planned projects at the hospital.
At their meeting in Ames this week, the Regents will be asked to approve an increase of nearly $10 million for a new MRI Suite Safety and PET/MRI Expansion and Renovation, and more than a $3 million increase in an Interventional Radiology Support Space Renovation project.
The first project had been budgeted at $5.4 million when it was approved in April 2017 but is now pegged at $15.175 million while the radiology project’s budget has gone from $3.8 million to nearly $7 million. That project’s budget was initially approved in December 2017.
Each project is being paid for through UIHC Building Usage Funds and/or bond proceeds. The radiology project is expected to be finished by next winter, while the PET/MRI project is slated to be done in Fall 2020.
UI officials have also presented the budgets for three other projects at the hospital: two upgrading elevators F and H and one renovating the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit. Each of the elevator projects has a budget of $3.25 million while the latter project is estimated to cost $3.5 million.