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AC Schools Local Planning Committee OK's Learning Center 
It's Boards turn tonight for approval of new Learning Center/Central Office Building - an idea promising a giant leap forward in economic growth and jobs for the area, and one which is on trend with current goals in Frankfort. By Ed Waggener The Adair County Schools Local Facilities Planning Committee met in a special session at 5:30pmCT, on Thursday afternoon, May 19, 2016, and approved the addition of the Adair County Learning Center/Central Office Development project. The project will next need approval of the Adair County Board of Education and to the Kentucky Department of Education, which could come as early as tonight, Tuesday, May 24, 2016, when the School Board is in its special regular May session at 6pmCT, at the Breeding Fire Station, 290 Fire Department Lane, Breeding, KY. (See: AGENDA - Item #28) The new facility will be located across Indian Drive from Adair County High School. The learning center will allow adult courses in the evenings and will offer high school classes during school hours. Phase One will be the Learning Center. Phase Two would be the new central office. The total size of the completed structure, which may be built in phases, depending on funding - will be 7,500 s.f. The cost is estimated at between $2.4 million and $3 million. Sources for the funding, Daryl McGaha, the Workforce Development Director at Lake Cumberland Area Development District in Russell Springs said, could come from all or some of these sources: 1) A Community Block Grant from the state. 2) Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) for Equipment. 3) South Kentucky RECC's "Redleg" fund, which might lend up to $1 million interest free. 4) And/or from a $100,000,000 fund the Bevin Administration is making available. The project, which leans heavily toward technical training, would appear to be an exact fit for funding through this program, Mr. McGaha said. In face of reduced state funding, building is on trend Daryl McGaha, head of Lake Cumberland Area Development District's Workforce Development, noted what he called a climactic change at the state level, alluding to the overall reduced state funding in the current state budget. However, he said, there are new opportunities with the Bevin Administration's focus on Workforce Development. He said that he believes the project will continue to have a friendly ear in Frankfort, that the project is a perfect fit with goals of Cabinet Secretary of Education and Workforce Development Hal Heiner's goals for training a workforce which will not only generate jobs from the bottom up - through entrepreneurship at the local level - but also with be a prime attraction for companies which will be drawn to Kentucky because of the state's strategic fit logistically. Adair County already has an impressive jump on workforce development shown through the success of the recent adult education first welding class for adults held at Adair County High School. All of those certified have found jobs, McGaha said, at excellent starting wages, and the demand is nowhere near being met. A second welding class is now being recruited, McGaha said. McGaha said that the new Learning Center will initially offer certification in Industrial Maintenance, another field where jobs are waiting in this area for qualified individuals and robotics, no longer a futuristic career, but one which is exploding at this very time. The Learning Center, he said, will offer a lot of opportunities. "There are already jobs awaiting those who prepare themselves," he said. Present at the meeting The Adair County Schools Local Planning Committee meeting was well attended. Members included Chairman Darrell Overstreet, John Shelly, Bryan Walker, David Jones, Cindy Smith, Jake Coffey, Joe Flowers, Renae Smith, Supt. Alan Reed (non-voting), Alma Rich, Mike Harris, Floyd Burton; and Daryl McGaha, head of the Lake Cumberland Area Development District Workforce group; and Tim Lucas of the Lucas P-12 Education Planning firm. This story was posted on 2016-05-24 03:54:05
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