The Okaloosa County School Board will request Triumph Gulf Coast Money to fund a north-end campus for Okaloosa Technical College.
The request to Triumph Gulf Coast, funded from a settlement between the State of Florida and BP as a result of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, asks for $8.35 Million to fund the project partially. The expansion would cost $21 Million total, which would come from various other sources, including The Florida Department of Education Workforce Capitalization Grant and the Okaloosa County School District.
Okaloosa County School District operates Okaloosa Technical College. So, the college needed approval from the Okaloosa School Board before moving forward with a grant request from Triumph Gulf Coast.
“As One Okaloosa EDC (The Economic Development Advocacy Arm for Okaloosa County) looks to gain manufacturing companies to join our county at the Shoal River Ranch site, the need for career certificate programs in Manufacturing is our first priority for expansion. Specific program like Advanced Manufacturing, Welding, Electronics, are all programs that would be implemented on this campus,” a packet supporting the School Board’s Approval of the request said.
The proposed additional campus would be at the Okaloosa Industrial Air Park, next to the Bob Sikes Airport in Crestview and Northwest Florida State College’s Airframe and Powerplant school. The facility would focus on career and technical education for students.
“We will continue working closely with our community partners and industry leaders to offer pathways that will further our students’ success in the north end and continue to contribute positively to Okaloosa’s economy,” said Okaloosa County Superintendent Marcus Chambers.
Jon Williams, the director of Okaloosa Technical College, which is a part of the Okaloosa County School District, noted that as industry expands in Okaloosa County – the need for more of the students he has will grow. “Our industry partners, as well as the economic development council (One Okaloosa EDC) have relayed the growing need for even more skilled labor to support our local economic goals,” Williams said, “Okaloosa Technical College, as it should, is answering that call to action by seeking expansion to the northern portion of our county. To accomplish expansion, we are first seeking a grant through Triumph Gulf Coast to purchase space as a satellite campus. Additional grant dollars will also be sought from the Florida Department of Education and beyond so that programs at our new site thrive indefinitely. We are very excited to expand and offer even more hands-on learning and technical training for prospective students who are to become our local essential workforce.”
In simple terms, Okaloosa Technical College (OTC) is requesting $8.35 million in funding from Triumph Gulf Coast to expand its programs by adding a new campus in the north end of Okaloosa County. Here’s what they they say this expansion would do:
In a nutshell, OTC wants to expand its educational offerings to the north end of Okaloosa County to provide students with more opportunities and meet local industries’ workforce needs. They are seeking financial support to make this expansion possible.
Now that the School Board has given staff the green light to request the money from the Triumph Gulf Coast Board, the administrative staff at the Okaloosa County School District and Okaloosa Technical College will need to prepare a presentation package to argue their case to the Triumph Gulf Coast Board.
Previous successful efforts in Okaloosa County included:
Triumph Gulf Coast is in charge of distributing more than $1.5 Billion to initiatives in the eight coastal western panhandle counties in Florida disproportionately affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
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