July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
JJCL forming plans (6/9/03)
Fund-raising feasibility study planned
With preliminary plans for a new campus in hand, officials from a local learning center are closer to finding out if their dream can become a reality sometime in the near future.
Doug Inman and Sam Shoemaker from the John Jay Center for Learning updated Jay County Commissioners this morning on progress for the center, which currently conducts classes at six sites around the county.
Included in this morning’s presentation was a look at plans for a campus on property that was the former home of a lumber company just north of the Salamonie River along Meridian Street.
Inman, president of JJCL’s board, and Shoemaker, the executive director, said the 12,000-square foot facility would carry a price tag of approximately $3.5 million.
John Jay Center for Learning received an anonymous donation of $1 million in 1999 to be used for a learning center campus in Portland’s central downtown corridor.
Inman told Commissioners Milo Miller Jr., Gary Theurer and Mike Leonhard that a fund-raising feasibility study will begin in the next few weeks to determine if there is sufficient interest regarding the building of a permanent home for JJCL.
“My gut tells me John Jay Center for Learning is going to have as big of an impact as anything that’s happened in Jay County for a long time,” Inman, who is also executive director of The Portland Foundation, told the commissioners. “It’s something we truly believe the community wants and needs.”
The proposed site for the John Jay campus is currently owned by The Portland Foundation. It purchased the property from the Bank of Geneva using money donated by the late Ann Goodrich.
Shoemaker updated the commissioners regarding facts and figures for the center, which acts as an education broker with several institutions, including Ivy Tech State College and Indiana Wesleyan University.
Shoemaker also said that his board is requesting that the county continuing supporting JJCL at a level of $25,000 for 2004. That is the same amount the county has designated from economic development income tax funds the past two years.
Classes offered through John Jay are currently held at the center’s North Meridian Street office, as well as at Jay County High School, Westlawn Elementary School, Tyson Foods-Mexican Original, WorkOne Express and the Jay County Public Library.
Also this morning, while acting as the county drainage board, the commissioners heard county surveyor Brad Daniels report that a Pike Township resident plans to ask that the county’s easement along a county tile be reduced.
Daniels said that Danny Bost, who owns property on the east side of county road 175 West between county roads 700 and 800 South, is attempting to place part of his land in a preserve or conservation program, and would like the 75-foot right-of-way along the Collins Tile (No. 1) reduced to maximize the amount of land that is eligible.
The property and tile are in the Ross & Days Watershed in section 30 of Pike Township.
The commissioners tabled action on the matter until they could discuss it with Bost.[[In-content Ad]]
Doug Inman and Sam Shoemaker from the John Jay Center for Learning updated Jay County Commissioners this morning on progress for the center, which currently conducts classes at six sites around the county.
Included in this morning’s presentation was a look at plans for a campus on property that was the former home of a lumber company just north of the Salamonie River along Meridian Street.
Inman, president of JJCL’s board, and Shoemaker, the executive director, said the 12,000-square foot facility would carry a price tag of approximately $3.5 million.
John Jay Center for Learning received an anonymous donation of $1 million in 1999 to be used for a learning center campus in Portland’s central downtown corridor.
Inman told Commissioners Milo Miller Jr., Gary Theurer and Mike Leonhard that a fund-raising feasibility study will begin in the next few weeks to determine if there is sufficient interest regarding the building of a permanent home for JJCL.
“My gut tells me John Jay Center for Learning is going to have as big of an impact as anything that’s happened in Jay County for a long time,” Inman, who is also executive director of The Portland Foundation, told the commissioners. “It’s something we truly believe the community wants and needs.”
The proposed site for the John Jay campus is currently owned by The Portland Foundation. It purchased the property from the Bank of Geneva using money donated by the late Ann Goodrich.
Shoemaker updated the commissioners regarding facts and figures for the center, which acts as an education broker with several institutions, including Ivy Tech State College and Indiana Wesleyan University.
Shoemaker also said that his board is requesting that the county continuing supporting JJCL at a level of $25,000 for 2004. That is the same amount the county has designated from economic development income tax funds the past two years.
Classes offered through John Jay are currently held at the center’s North Meridian Street office, as well as at Jay County High School, Westlawn Elementary School, Tyson Foods-Mexican Original, WorkOne Express and the Jay County Public Library.
Also this morning, while acting as the county drainage board, the commissioners heard county surveyor Brad Daniels report that a Pike Township resident plans to ask that the county’s easement along a county tile be reduced.
Daniels said that Danny Bost, who owns property on the east side of county road 175 West between county roads 700 and 800 South, is attempting to place part of his land in a preserve or conservation program, and would like the 75-foot right-of-way along the Collins Tile (No. 1) reduced to maximize the amount of land that is eligible.
The property and tile are in the Ross & Days Watershed in section 30 of Pike Township.
The commissioners tabled action on the matter until they could discuss it with Bost.[[In-content Ad]]
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