Clandestino
03-01-2005, 09:26 PM
see, they should've just put it in the med ctr.. even a downtown location doesn't make them all happy...
LAST UPDATE: 3/1/2005 6:39:16 PM
Posted By: Walker Robinson
Alamo Community College District has decided to drop a major issue in its $450 million bond, hoping to get it to pass. Opponents voted against the plan earlier this month they said because they were unhappy with the proposed location of the school’s nursing center. ACCD proposed putting the nursing school in the medical center on the northwest side, but opponents wanted it downtown.
“I think the medical center, for the most part, is off the table,” ACCD Chancellor J. Terence Kelley told News 4 WOAI. ACCD is looking for a new location for the school’s new Allied Health Facility.
“We've opened up a dialogue as to what would be the best location,” Kelley said.
Both sides met Tuesday and one possible location is downtown near the Brady Green Clinic off of Frio and Martin, ACCD officials said. Previous bond opponents like that idea.
“Highways come to that area, and VIA is already available for that area,” bond opponent Dr. Charles Orozco said.
But for students who attend St. Philip's College, the current location for the nursing school, it is still not good enough.
“A lot of people are already enrolled in the program, and they're already coming here,” St. Philip’s student Bianca Martinez said. “St. Philip’s is convenient for them and to change it would probably be difficult for a lot of people.”
November will be the soonest the ACCD bond issue will go before voters again, officials said. The next meeting to discuss the ACCD bond is set for a week from Friday.
LAST UPDATE: 3/1/2005 6:39:16 PM
Posted By: Walker Robinson
Alamo Community College District has decided to drop a major issue in its $450 million bond, hoping to get it to pass. Opponents voted against the plan earlier this month they said because they were unhappy with the proposed location of the school’s nursing center. ACCD proposed putting the nursing school in the medical center on the northwest side, but opponents wanted it downtown.
“I think the medical center, for the most part, is off the table,” ACCD Chancellor J. Terence Kelley told News 4 WOAI. ACCD is looking for a new location for the school’s new Allied Health Facility.
“We've opened up a dialogue as to what would be the best location,” Kelley said.
Both sides met Tuesday and one possible location is downtown near the Brady Green Clinic off of Frio and Martin, ACCD officials said. Previous bond opponents like that idea.
“Highways come to that area, and VIA is already available for that area,” bond opponent Dr. Charles Orozco said.
But for students who attend St. Philip's College, the current location for the nursing school, it is still not good enough.
“A lot of people are already enrolled in the program, and they're already coming here,” St. Philip’s student Bianca Martinez said. “St. Philip’s is convenient for them and to change it would probably be difficult for a lot of people.”
November will be the soonest the ACCD bond issue will go before voters again, officials said. The next meeting to discuss the ACCD bond is set for a week from Friday.