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Local organizers pitch countywide Career Consortium and career center at underused Pheasantfeld campus
Summary
A presenter urged the Barry County Board of Commissioners to support a countywide Career Consortium to connect industry, schools and postsecondary partners, and invited commissioners and residents to a follow-up meeting to discuss reuse of the 93.5-acre Pheasantfeld campus as a career center.
Chris Stafford, identifying himself as a longtime Barry County resident, presented a proposal on Oct. 28 to form a Career Consortium that would bring business, industry and education together to create workplace pathways for students across the county.
Stafford said Barry County lacks a countywide career center and that the county’s 93.5-acre Pheasantfeld campus is underused. He said that, in prior funding rounds such as ARPA, the county…
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