Triumph Gulf Coast, on Wednesday, approved a 250-thousand-dollar grant that will allow Haney Technical College to open a satellite campus at the Apalachicola airport.
Triumph Gulf Coast is a nonprofit corporation that administers funds recovered for economic damages from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
The grant will help pay for renovations to a 12 thousand square foot hangar at the airport where Haney will have its classrooms and administrative offices.
Franklin County will have to kick in 15 thousand dollars toward the renovations.
The Franklin County Commission this month signed the lease agreement that will allow the Franklin Education Foundation to rent the hangar at the airport for 2000 dollars a month.
The foundation will then sublet the hangar to Haney at no cost to the school.
Haney intends to use the space for aviation related classes – they will teach classes aircraft mechanics.
It will be the first college campus ever in Franklin County.
The hope is to begin offering classes beginning next Spring, though that depends on how quickly the hangar can be renovated for classrooms.
Triumph Gulf Coast is a nonprofit corporation that administers funds recovered for economic damages from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
The grant will help pay for renovations to a 12 thousand square foot hangar at the airport where Haney will have its classrooms and administrative offices.
Franklin County will have to kick in 15 thousand dollars toward the renovations.
The Franklin County Commission this month signed the lease agreement that will allow the Franklin Education Foundation to rent the hangar at the airport for 2000 dollars a month.
The foundation will then sublet the hangar to Haney at no cost to the school.
Haney intends to use the space for aviation related classes – they will teach classes aircraft mechanics.
It will be the first college campus ever in Franklin County.
The hope is to begin offering classes beginning next Spring, though that depends on how quickly the hangar can be renovated for classrooms.
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