The trustees have issued a temporary moratorium on construction funding systemwide until they can better assess the impact of the 1995-96 and 1996-97 operating budgets, according to Senior Associate Vice President for University Services Voldemar Innus.

Design work was to have begun by now on phase II of the Natural Sciences and Mathematics complex, a new building adjacent to the current NSM facility that would house Mathematics, Computer Science and Geology, said Innus.

"An architectural firm has been selected and we were awaiting a release of funds to enable that firm to begin design work," Innus explained. In addition, the South Campus' new Co-Generation Energy facility is stalled at the design stage by the moratorium, said Innus.

The moratorium further complicates plans for development of a centralized student services location on the North Campus, he noted.

"We had planned to begin that project with the 1996-97 fiscal year," said Innus. Numerous planned rehabilitations on both campuses are also on hold, he added.

However, Innus pointed out that the new South Campus facility for the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences was largely completed before the moratorium and was not impacted by it. Much of that new facility was officially put on line Sept. 20.