A $29.4 million regional workforce development center that Harford Community College's previous administration wanted to build has been removed from the college's 2017-2022 capital improvement program because Harford County could not provide its share of the construction costs.Members of the college's Board of Trustees voted 8-0 to remove the request at their monthly meet Tuesday night. Trustee James Valdes was absent.Funding for the center would have been split between the county and state, with a local share of $13.4 million, according to documents presented at the board meeting.Since taking office in late 2014, Harford County Executive Barry Glassman has curtailed funding for major capital projects in order to focus on county employees pay and benefits and to get the county's debt load under control.The request for the workforce development center, which would have been a central location for HCC workforce development programs and was championed by former HCC president Dennis Golladay, was included in the CIP approved by the board in June. Golladay retired at the end of July.The request was a "placeholder" in case the funding came through, but efforts to find alternate funds have not been successful, board Chair Richard Norling said."The state cannot be asked to hold the money for us any longer for this building," he said.Norling and new HCC President Dianna Phillips stressed the college is still committed to workforce and economic development, but it will not have a central location for those programs.The college offers a slew of online and in-person continuing education classes, as well as training local employers can use to bolster their employees' skills in areas such as technology, engineering, cybersecurity, as well as vocational and trade skills, managerial development and health care, according to the HCC website.Edgewood Hall, the site of many current HCC workforce development programs, is being renovated and expanded. The project is expected to be completed by December and then should give HCC extra space for workforce programs, Norling said.The college has a mission to ascertain the needs of local employers and develop programs to give people the desired skill sets, which does not depend on a building, according to Phillips.Trustee John Haggerty expressed concerns that a college in a neighboring county could build its own regional workforce development center and draw potential students from HCC.Phillips, however, stressed that HCC is committed to serve "our community" of Harford County.