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Site Picked for College Campus

Published 10/31/2009 in History Page : Historical Page

By NOLAN HOWELL

A 60-acre site at the eastern edge of the city last night was selected for the proposed campus of Garden City Community Junior College.

Price: $180,000.

Action came on a unanimous vote by the college's Board of Trustees to obtain an option on the land, owned by Raymond Morris.

The almost rectangular site is bordered on the west by J.C. Street, on the north by Josie Ave. and Kansas Ave., and on the south by Spruce. It extends to the east as far as the US50 by-pass.

Two houses and an irrigation well are located on the southwest corner of the property.

Three acres of the area several years ago had been given to the old Garden City Board of Education as a possible site of a new grade school. Unified School Board 457 Monday night said it would turn over the site to the college, with approval of Morris.

Cost of the land will be included in the special joint bond election scheduled for January 18 by the college board and the Unified School board 457. The joint bond election will include the proposed new junior college campus, a new vocational-technical building to be built south of the present high school, and remodeling of the present high school building.

Trustees instructed their attorney, Dan High to prepare an option agreement on the proposed site with Morris.

The site was selected by the board at a special meeting, after several months of deliberation on various sites. More than a dozen sites had been considered by the board during this length of time, but through the process of elimination the number had been narrowed down to four last week.

Representatives of the Metropolitan Area Planning Commission, the Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce, the State Highway Commission and the State Department of Public Instruction met with the Board of Trustees of the college in a special meeting last Thursday to discuss the four proposed sites.

George W. Reida, director of school facilities for the state of Kansas, had toured the possible sites with several of the board members earlier that day. Later at the meeting he rated all four sites as being good prospects for a new campus. The Morris property was the recommendation of Reida, twice, over all other possible choices as the best site.

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