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School board approves moving Riley Elementary toward expanded career and technical center with funding guardrails
Summary
Salt Lake City School District trustees voted to move the former Riley Elementary site forward for use as an expanded Career and Technical Center (CTC), approving a motion that includes a requirement that district general or capital funds not be used without later board approval and that an architect be retained to define retrofit needs.
The Salt Lake City School District Board on Tuesday approved designating the former Riley Elementary site for an expanded district Career and Technical Center, moving the proposal from discussion into the action agenda with conditions on funding and next steps.
During a lengthy discussion, Superintendent Dr. Nate (Doctor) Grant framed the proposal as a response to student demand and capacity limits at the district's current CTC: “We have a career and technical center that's landlocked ... the seats that we want to offer and that students want to have in CTE classes are much fewer than we can provide in the CTC center,” Grant said as he introduced the item to the board. Alan Kearsley, the district's business administrator, described a phased approach that would rely primarily on CTE program funds, a pending state capital grant and…
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