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Show fielding Fr Wiped M&pmmwm By TOM BUSSELBERG North County Editor KAYSVILLE-Davis Area Vocational Center Director Jack Shell spends a lot of time keeping the pavement hot between be-tween his small Kaysville campus cam-pus and the State Capitol in Salt Lake City, these days. HE'S DOWN there, as he I has been for the past four sea- ns this time of year, pleading his case for expansion of the school that is seeing more and More students, these days. And although construction is no underway for the automo-uve automo-uve diesel office education expansion ex-pansion adjoining the center, more funds are being sought 'or still more programs. In the past year, enrollment to jumped by one-fourth to one-third, to 420 in a facility Planned for 360 as the job market mar-ket has tightened and more and more attention is focused on data-processing-computers and welding and other areas related re-lated to the growth along Utah and Wyoming's Overthrust Belt. THE LEGISLATURE so far is looking firmly at $1 .4 million although as Sen. Haven Barlow, Bar-low, co-chairman of the public education committee says, that's not enough to do more than complete the heating plant for the addition now being built. That is still set for an Aug. 3 1 completion despite setbacks in arrival of brick and weather-related weather-related problems, he said, noting not-ing the vocational center board has chosen a mocha brown with light beige panel color scheme. THE LEGISLATURE has received a request for $5.3 million mil-lion for completion of its phase one. Some $1.9 million was approved in the 1982 legisla ture but a centralized mechanical mecha-nical system, that could serve other facilities planned for the center. Also planned for the first phase would be the mezzanine mez-zanine to house office occupations occupa-tions for $325,000; welding, student services and admission, admis-sion, at $2.4 million; electronics, electro-nics, electricity, plus drafting class facilities, $1.6 million. If that phase is approved, it will include nearly 80,000 square feet. Other funding included in-cluded would include completing complet-ing purchase of the two existing ex-isting buildings from the Davis School District at $806,000, utility extension for $400,000, remodeling the existing buildings build-ings at $145,000 and campus site development of more than three-quarters million dollars. ULTIMATE plans for 232,826 square feet, or about as much space as a high school. Mr. Shell says nearly every course offered has a waiting list with particularly great demand for data processing proces-sing and office occupation classes. Some classes run from 8 a.m. - 10 p.m. and others could see extension if funds were available, he emphasizes. empha-sizes. "We show we are utilizing our facility 80 percent of the time between 8 and 5," he said in a telephone interview. Referring Re-ferring to the $1.4 million pegged peg-ged by the state building board where construction priorities are set, he said, "We 'd like to change that to get the full amount. We can justify it." MONEY'S tight in other areas, for the vocational center as well, the board has been informed, in-formed, with a revised downward down-ward budget approved but didn't mean any layoffs, Mr. Shell emphasizes. It meant a rejuggling of some "capital outlay" plans, such as $8,000 for the diesel shop and similar machine shopfunding. THE NEW diesel shop, for instance, would house three teachers, but only one is funded with top priority placed on fully using the facility and serving students on the waiting list. Of the $1,182,500 being requested re-quested for the 1983-84 budget, the only major increase in-crease comes in current expenses ex-penses for expanded electronics, electro-nics, computer programming and cooperative on-the-job training, up by just over $20,000. THE LEGISLATIVE appropriation projection is down by more than 10 percent while $80,300 has been dropped drop-ped in the school district's adult high school completion monies. Gov. Matheson's two percent funding cut is added on top. On a more positive note, the board has approved forming a foundation providing individuals indi-viduals or groups an easy way to donate to the center, providing provid-ing a tax number with two commitments for "sizeable donations" already received. The center already receives "a lot of material" from businesses, busines-ses, Mr. Shell added. |