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April 2003

Federal Renovation and Repair Grant Approved

With this grant from the federal government for $300,000, the changes could begin.

The specified uses for this money are as follows:

1. Improve air handling in new classrooms
2. Improve air handling in hard trades areas
3. Improve air handling in old classrooms
4. Improve office HVAC system
5. Bring Culinary Arts plumbing to code.
6. Install fire walls in hard trade shops
7. Install exhaust hood in Culinary Arts kitchen
8. Install new septic system and leach field
9. Install new boilers

Some of the money for the above items was combined with money from other renovation loans, and completed with other projects.

The current fire code requires that all shop areas where flammable activities take place be protected from other areas of the facility.

These fire walls were a major construction effort requiring cement block wall for the first nine feet and then fireproof gypsum board to the top.

We were also required to use the same gypsum board to enclose the mezzanine.  This construction was required between the Auto Collision area and Auto Tech, Auto Tech area and Diesel Tech area, and Diesel Tech area and Welding area.

The final part of the fire protection and isolation involved all new shop doors.

This project caused a problem with the current location of the Horticulture/Natural Resources area and a new area for this program has been constructed.

Two new high efficiency boilers have been installed.  Under specific conditions either boiler alone can heat the building.  A second source for hot water has been added to eliminate the need to run the boiler during summer vacation when there is low hot water need.

Many of the improvements from this funding were not glamorous.  How does one take pictures of a septic system and leach field, or a HVAC system buried above the ceiling or on the mezzanine?  The funds for the Culinary Arts kitchen improvements were held and used in phase 2 when that area was constructed.

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