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Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:38 PM CST
Lake Land approves lease for Adult Education Center
By HERB MEEKER, Staff Writer
hmeeker@jg-tc.com
MATTOON — Lake Land College has officially taken over operations and the keys at the Adult Education Center on Lake Land Boulevard.
On Monday night, the Lake Land Board of Trustees approved a lease agreement for the building for $10 per year. The center at 1615 Lake Land Blvd. had previously been managed by the Mattoon School District but a “roller coaster” summer of state funding produced an agreement for Lake Land to seek a state grant to continue similar adult programs at the college, explained Linda Von Behren, who discussed the transition with the board and administrators. There are now 280 adult education students enrolled in classes through the college in Mattoon and other communities.
For several weeks last summer the adult education center was closed due to a lack of state funding. This arrangement helps stabilize operations through the current fiscal year.
The center offers general education courses, instruction in business, office and computer classes, vocational skills, parenting skills, a certified nursing assistant program and instruction in food service sanitation, Von Behren said. In addition, the facility will continue to offer child care for children of students and bus service with six buses. There are about 70 students enrolled this fall at the center in Mattoon.
The college board also approved a lease for the Pana Extension Center, where Lake Land courses are conducted. The center quadrupled in size this year and that increased the lease amount for the college from $500 to $750 a month, said Lake Land President Scott Lensink. The vote was unanimous for the lease agreement after a closed session discussion. Acting Chairman Carl Hart and Trustees Mike Sullivan, Gary Cadwell, Tom Niebrugge, Doris Reynolds and Student Trustee Josh Wollin voted Monday night. Jim Shaffer and Leland Glazebrook were absent.
In other business, the board accepted a Department of Justice grant for $1,396 to replace seven bulletproof vests for campus public safety officers, and $148,250 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for a state-of-the-art commercial driving simulator for Commercial Driver License trainees at the college. The simulator can also provide safe driver refresher training for employed drivers.
Rob Westcott, dean of the Center for Business and Industry, said the simulator will offer training programs on many hazardous driving situations on a group of huge plasma screens.
“It’s as lifelike as you can make it,” Westcott said.
Contact Herb Meeker at hmeeker@jg-tc.com or 238-6869.
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