Schools

State Grant Would Give Vo-Ag Program New Equipment

The cost to the town would be less than $8,000.

A project to give Rockville High School's Vocational-Agricultural program an equipment makeover has been set in motion.

The Town Council recently approved a plan to provide the town's share of funding for the project and authorized schematic drawings.

Now, an application for a major grant can be officially put on file with the state.

The total cost of the project is $154,095, but 95 percent of the work would be reimbursed by a state-administered Ag-Ed Science and Technology Equipment Grant.

The net cost to the town would be $7,705.

Board of Education members Dean Houle and George Apel said that the new equipment would include a computer lab, a mobile computer cart, new working tables, a new tractor, new tractor attachments, a plow and a manure spreader.

Apel said the RHS Vo-Ag programs the oldest in the state.   

The school board's Facilities Committee will be serving as the building committee for the project. Its current members are Apel, Houle, Paul Stansel and Laura Bush.

Once the town's application to the state's Department of Construction Services - Bureau of School Facilities is complete, it can be placed on the the state General Assembly's priority list, state officials said.


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