Commonwealth Competition Council - A Letter from Southwest Virginia Community College

A Letter from Southwest Virginia Community College

May 29, 1998

Mr. Otis L. Brown
Chairman
Commonwealth Competition Council Commonwealth of Virginia
P.O. Box 1475
Richmond, VA 23218-1475

Dear Mr. Brown:

We were pleased to receive your Privatization/Competition Manual and wanted you to know how we support the efforts of the Council. In 1994, Southwest Virginia Community College privatized its physical plant operations through Johnson Controls, Inc. We are the only community college in the Virginia Community College System with a privatized physical plant. Johnson Controls has done an outstanding job and the contract has saved the Commonwealth money.

Our Campus Bookstore is operated by Barnes/Noble and sales have gone from $300,000 in 1988 to $1,000,000 this year, improved services and a real win-win situation.

We recently initiated a Request for Proposal that will privatize our copying services. We are proposing that a vendor own, install, maintain and privatize a copying service that would place 15 digital copiers in buildings across the SVCC Campus, and the college would in turn pay a 'cost per copy" for such services. These machines will be copiers, laser printers, with fax machines.

Please know how we at SVCC are supportive of the privatization initiative. We have found the relationships built with corporate partners are invaluable.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Dr. Richard C. Hudson
Dean of Financial and Administrative Services

Taskforce on Commercial Activities of Charitable Organizations

Competition@dpb.virginia.gov