Delgado Community College in New Orleans still is awaiting repairs that are expected to cost nearly $14 million. Until the work is done, structures that make up nearly one-sixth of the college's square footage are unusable. Other local campuses in the state-run community and technical college system need major hurricane-related work, too. Rebuilding the Louisiana Technical College's Sidney Collier campus in New Orleans' 9th Ward, which Katrina obliterated, is expected to cost nearly $12 million. And at Nunez Community College in Chalmette, repairs are expected to total about $5.2 million. Under the existing system, the work can't start because these institutions have had to stand in line and hope for money from the state's capital outlay budget
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