Tech School Moving Forward
After years of political twists and turns the long anticipated Southern Crescent Technical School located in McDonough is seeing some progress. During this years session I was able to amend SR 1083 with language to include the transferring of the 25 acre property from the Henry County BOE to the GA Technical College System. The Governor signed SR 1083 just 3 weeks ago on June 4th and on June 25th the transfer was complete.
The significance of this transfer is that we can now bid out the design and engineering of the campus that was funded in the FY10 budget year, which was a huge success for the Henry County Legislative Delegation. However, we were unable to secure construction dollars as we were waiting on the design to be done. So as the design moves forward our top funding priority for next year will be to secure construction dollars for this project.
As many of you already know that Henry County is the largest county in Georgia without a home based technical college. This project is going to be a joint venture with Henry County BOE, “Griffin Tech” now known as Southern Crescent Technical College, Gordon College, and Clayton State University. All of these schools get a large percentage of their students from Henry County and therefore are very interested in helping this project succeed.
I personally would love to have this first building be a beacon for our community and hopefully we can get a local engineer and architect to win the bids! If you are qualified and are interested in bidding on this project please contact Robert Alden, Executive Director of Facilities Management, at (404) 679-1617 or ralden@tcsg.edu
