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Show Davis Ready To Try Once More For New Vocational Ed Building : By TOM Bl SSEI.BF.RG :KAYSVILLE - The Davis Area Vocational Center board has approved a request to the state for construction of a near $8 million facility. : IN ACTION that may sound familiar, the school is "starting from scratch"at trying to obtain the go-ahead and funding fund-ing for a new 72.0(H) square foot-plus first phase of proposed prop-osed expansion area. The governor vetoed a funding fund-ing request last yei?r that would have provided $1.5 million to get the project under way but Center Director Jack. Shell sounds optimistic it w ill fly this year. IN A board meeting last week he said a building board official "is very positive" and "thinks there's a good chance this year" adding he feels Gov. Matheson "got the message" that such a facility is needed. Coupled with that, "the Legislature Leg-islature is very high on this," Mr. Shell added. The total price tag of $9,310,000 projects costs through 1983. when the project would probably see completion comple-tion and includes $906,545 for purchase of the center's two existing buildings. . THOSE ARE currently own-ed own-ed by the Davis School District, Dis-trict, former operators of the center until it became a state area vocational center. Remodeling Re-modeling of existing facilities for a welding and machine shop are pegged at $311,000 while utilities extension would cost $375,925. Site development develop-ment is estimated at $834,428. In a related matter, board members expressed concern at a state building board recommendation re-commendation that a closed coal-burning heating system be used in the new facility. BOARD CHAIRMAN Dee Forbes said state officials should make a presentation outlining the proposal to Kays-ville Kays-ville City (which has its own power operation and currently serves the center), the Davis County Commission and other local officials. He raised concerns, echoed by others, about a coal system because of Davis County's problems with a high ozone level and other pollution fac-. fac-. tors. COUNTY OFFICIALS should be made aware of what the impact of such a system would be, he emphasized. Mr. Shell said a deep well water system, for instance, is generally built in facilities of at least 300.000 square feet to be economical and noted the building board's trend leaned "very heavily" toward coal-burning coal-burning heat. "THEY'VE RILED out natural gas because of the decontrolling de-controlling price that could occur in Utah within two years." he said. "I would like the building board to look at the heating process and maybe at what has the least cost and (provides for) cleanliness of air." The vocational board authorized autho-rized drafting of a letter to the building board outlining concerns. |