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Teachers and students urge National City leaders for $250,000 ventilation fix at Sweetwater welding academy
Summary
Students and a teacher from Sweetwater Union High School District told the city council their welding academy cannot operate full training because the facility needs about $250,000 in ventilation upgrades and has power‑capacity problems; they asked the city to help find partnerships and funding.
A trio of speakers from the Sweetwater Union High School District told the National City City Council during public comment that the district’s campus welding academy is unable to provide full training because of ventilation and power issues and asked the city to help recruit partners and funding.
Paul Wabnowski, a teacher and civil service chair who says he teaches English within the welding academy at Sweetwater, told the council the welding shop is “in dire straits” and students are limited to welding from only one position because of the ventilation system. "The facility needs a quarter of a million dollars in work to change the ventilation system…
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