Vicky Smith

In Qi GU’s Daily Herald’s story about the appointment of appointment of Vicky Smith as McHenry County College’s new president appears the following sentence:

“She will focus on the expansion of facilities and academic programs, especially in health care and manufacturing, to meet the needs of the McHenry County work force.”

To expand college facilities, financing would have to be obtained.

The last time expansion of health care facilities and academic programs was discussed was during the baseball stadium consideration.

You will remember that the stadium was going to help pay for the nursing program labs and classrooms.

The only way to get such money now, it seems to me, is with a bond referendum.

So, is one of the tasks Smith has been assigned to accomplish is to pass a bond referendum to finance the “expansion of facilities” about which she spoke?

Of course, the board could take up my suggestion to approach local hospitals and nursing homes who would directly benefit from a nurses’ training program to finance such a facility.