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Show A Vocational Education'' Center will be established at Moab with plans for the new structure to get underway in the near future, it was announced an-nounced this week by Super-intendent Super-intendent C. Robert Sund-wall. Sund-wall. Authorization for the Moab Center was given by the Utah State Board of Education Educa-tion last Friday. Mr. Sund-wall Sund-wall stated that he anticipat-' ed the new building would be ready for occupancy during dur-ing the 1970-71 school year. As another step toward providing more complete educational ed-ucational opportunities for everyone in Grand County, approval of the Vocational Education Center is the third major educational project pro-ject assured for this area this year. The other two are the Continuing Education Program to begin in September, Septem-ber, and . the Cooperative Planning and Innovation project pro-ject to be undertaken by Utah State University, State Department of Public Instruction, In-struction, and the local district. dis-trict. The purpose of this project pro-ject is to establish and place into the school system educational opportunities for all residents, including preschool pre-school and adults. When facilities for the new Vocational . Education are completed, courses in not less than five vocational areas ar-eas will be available for both high school students and adults. These courses will be much more . sophisticated .than are presently offered at the high school enabling those participating to have sufficient training to enable, en-able, them to work at the vocations. Courses presently planned include electronics, auto mechanics, welding and metals, vocational art, and secretarial and clerical training. train-ing. The estimated cost for the Center is between $200,000 and $300,000. 01 this amount, the School District will furnish fur-nish about $100,000 with the balance coming from Federal Feder-al funds through the State Department of Public Instruction In-struction and the Four Corners Cor-ners Commission. The funds expected by the latter have yet to be approved. The major ma-jor portion of the amount to be spent by Grand County School District on the Center's Cen-ter's construction will be insurance in-surance money held over since the burning of the auditorium au-ditorium building and) library li-brary several years ago.' ; Superintendent C- Robert Sundwall stated Tuesday that if the federal funding is approved ap-proved in the naer future by the Four Corners Commission, Commis-sion, it is possible that work might get underway this year on construction of the new facility. Plans, as worked work-ed out by Vocational Education Educa-tion Director Bill Meador, are prety much complete, and work could begin without with-out a long delay in preliminary prelim-inary work, if funding is approved as expected. The new Vocational Education Educa-tion Center is to be located just east of Grand County High School, and north of the high school football field. |