Local STEM students to benefit from $1.7 million grant

Other items the BOE to slated to discuss Tuesday are:

•a recommendation to conduct its Local Board Training Assessment and adopt its 2011-12 Governance Team Training Plan.

•a recommendation to submit an application for up to $3 million for facilities and $150,000 in start up operational costs to the Georgia College & Career Academies Project (GCCAP) Grant.

•a recommendation to purchase two 72-passenger buses and four 48-passenger special needs buses at a total of $525,394.

•a recommendation to replace an inoperable 25-ton water source heat pump in the ceiling of the main Apalachee High School gymnasium with a new 24-ton McQuay unit at a cost of $25,488.

•a recommendation to adopt the county millage rate.

•a recommendation to use Wright Risk Management as the system’s insurance underwriter for its commercial policy, which runs from Sept. 1, 2011 until Aug. 31, 2012.