{"id":15626,"date":"2019-10-21T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcjvs.edu\/?p=15626"},"modified":"2019-10-21T11:51:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T16:51:49","slug":"state-of-the-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcjvs.edu\/?p=15626","title":{"rendered":"State of the School, October 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

About $15 million worth of work, expected to last three to four years, remains to be done at the West Liberty Street campus of the career center and is set to include upgrades to lighting, sprinklers and the building\u2019s HVAC system, said Superintendent Steven Chrisman.<\/em><\/p>\n

Gazette Reporter<\/a>: Jonathan Delozier, (330) 721-4050,\u00a0 jdelozier@medinagazette.com<\/em><\/p>\n

New engineering<\/a><\/span> and sports medicine<\/a><\/span> labs have already been built as part of the renovation effort, which when complete will have encompassed a decade and cost roughly $30 million. No new taxpayer money has been used for the projects.<\/strong> Cash from the district\u2019s general fund has been complimented by state aid as well as about $500,000 in yearly revenue from Medina County\u2019s 0.5 percent sales tax, Chrisman said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been able to center the sales tax money around these projects and we\u2019re very thankful for that,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been good stewards of that money. I\u2019d say there\u2019s about 30-40 percent of the building left to work on. Through a partnership with OFCC, we\u2019re expecting they\u2019re going to pay for 44 percent of our remaining costs. That gets us where we need to be. Before, it was an ambitious goal; now it\u2019s a reachable goal.\u201d \u201cWhat we mostly have left to do is infrastructure,\u201d Chrisman added. \u201cWe\u2019ve done the boilers, the parking lots, the roofing and the siding. We\u2019re still working on the HVAC equipment and the sprinkler systems. We\u2019ve gotten a bid for about $5 million to basically finish the sprinkling system, swap out all of the lighting because the fluorescent tube lighting is not good stuff. We\u2019ll switch over to LED and the return on that investment is very good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chrisman also touted the campus\u2019 new $650,000 driving pad that serves as the centerpiece for the county\u2019s Take Control Teen Driving Program<\/span><\/a><\/span>, in which police officers offer help to new drivers in areas such as emergency braking; recovery from skids and off-road swerves; and avoiding collisions. Classes are free of charge for any licensed teen driver and are held the third Saturday of each month at the career center. The superintendent said the new site also has served multiple purposes. \u201cWe were having problems here with overflow parking for our kids and a new lot with 125 spots was going to cost $1 million. I couldn\u2019t pull the trigger on that. Montville Township police Chief (Terry) Grice was telling me about Take Control when we were coaching football and he brought up the idea of doing the driving pad here. That brought the cost down to $750,000. That was still too much. But I have to say God intervened.\u201d A fundraising effort brought the project within striking distance. \u201cWe talked to all of the families involved who\u2019ve all lost a child. Within three weeks,the donations started pouring in; The contractor ignored the original bid and did it for $650,000. The school\u2019s share ended up being $300,000. We\u2019re making a difference in children\u2019s lives every single day because of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the complete Northern Medina County Chamber of Commerce: State of School report here.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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