Vocational program ready

Gila Community College (GCC) has just put the finishing touches on the cosmetology building and hired an instructor.

In addition, the college plans to soon break ground on the installation of solar panels.

All thats needed for the new building and program to be fully operational is some electrical wiring, some paperwork from Missouri and the State Board of Cosmetology to give its blessing to the building.

We received the certificate of occupancy last week, said Senior Dean Stephen Cullen. Ron Carnahan and Daryl Meeks are wiring in the stations they should be done by Friday of this week.

Then the following week or the week after, depending on when the State Cosmetology Board can grace us with their presence, with the inspection, well be ready.

Cullen said instructor Laurel Heyholm, hails from Missouri where she worked as a state board inspector. She only has to finish her paperwork to get started.

She will have to transfer her license from Missouri to Arizona, said Cullen, She told me yesterday she feels she will have her paperwork in hand Friday or Monday.

All-in-all, Cullen said he and the Payson campus staff are pleased with the program.

As for the solar panels, Cullen said the new construction company, SunRenu, will pull crews from the San Carlos campus project.

As of right now, the schedule to mobilize the project is mid-October, said Cullen.

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Vocational program ready