CSU projects feel budget blade

FORT COLLINS — On the job for just nine months, Brian Chase has seen his budget literally cut in half. As director of Colorado State University’s facilities-management department, Chase said the value of construction projects has been slashed from $100 million last year down to about $50 million this year.

“We’ve been told there’ll be no new construction money from the state and we’re told not to expect it for the next three to four years, at least,” Chase said.

In addition to freezing all capital construction spending, the state also cut control maintenance funding for all universities. To CSU, that…