Heavy equipment is being used to prepare for the new CHS on the southeast side of the site. The school will consume more than half of the current practice field, and a retention pond will be built in the area (above) being cleared of woods.

CHS update: two classes to get temporary homes

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Ben Munro
in Area Headline News
Friday, April 17. 2009
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Some larger Commerce High School classes will need temporary homes.

Health occupation and art classes will relocate to extra space at Commerce Elementary School during the construction of the new CHS as the existing classrooms will be demolished this summer. This option, approved by the BOE Monday, is much less costly than supplying modular units to house these classes for the two-year building period.


The move will likely save the school system several hundred thousand dollars, Commerce School Superintendent James “Mac” McCoy said.

The health occupation classes include labs that require a certain amount of square footage. The art lab is also larger than a regular classroom.

If the required square footage isn’t met for health occupations, the classes aren’t eligible for state funding.

While the health occupation program at the new school will be state-of-the art, according to McCoy, the state insisted the health occupation classes relocate to a 2,000-plus square foot space in the interim.

The system would have to buy two modular units for the one class. To avoid that cost, the board opted to move those classes to the portion of the elementary school that housed the old vocation, technology, band and art rooms.

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