By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
Tarkio Technology Institute officials will launch a campaign later this week to raise money to help make renovations across its campus.
The campaign will look to raise $3 million dollars to help with roof improvements and remodels of campus buildings. Currently the school is at almost $600,000 dollars raised.
Davis says currently the college has 13 buildings on campus, but only three are being occupied.
"The other 10 have varying needs of repair or remodeling that needs to take place, most of them start at the top with the roof," Davis tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post. "They sat empty for about 12 or 13 years and in our climate with some hot summers and the cold winters that's very hard on a building, especially flat roofs which we have a lot of."
Officials have revived the old Tarkio College, creating the Tarkio Technology Institute out of the once shuttered campus.
Davis says along with the roof repairs one building is also being remodeled to be a student housing facility.
"We're in a position now where we're getting applications from far enough out, for instance St. Joe, that we have to have housing on campus for students in order for them to attend the programs," Davis says.
Davis says the third project will be remodeling the cafeteria and lounge area on campus in extreme northwestern Missouri. Luckily for that building, Davis says, the roof is in good shape.
"We maintain it but the inside needs to be remodeled and refreshed and the facilities, the stoves and the refrigerators, all need to be refurbished," Davis explains.
An event will be held later this week at Tarkio Technology Institute to officially launch the fundraising campaign.
Davis says as part of the event on Thursday, attendees will be given a tour of the campus.
"We'll take them through the existing facilities, the ones we're using, the programs that are up and running, and then also show them the building that we're working on as the student residence and the cafeteria building," Davis says. "And then we'll have a short reception in our main building before we go down to the community building for our banquet."
The tours will begin at 3pm. Reservations are required for the gala and can be made online or by calling the offices at the college.