Thursday, March 30, 2000
Hamilton schools buy building for offices, training center
BY SUE KIESEWETTER
Enquirer Contributor
HAMILTON — Educators in the Hamilton schools will get an up-to-date training center and administrators a new home following this week's decision to buy the Joseph A. Marcum Development and Training Center from the Ohio Casualty Group (OCG).
The $650,000 purchase was made with assistance from the Hamilton Community Foundation. It will put $500,000 toward the purchase price at the closing, which will be scheduled for early May, said Robert Hancock, schools' treasurer.
Under the agreement with OCG, the schools will pay the insurance company $100,000 in September and the final $50,000 in July 2001. Over five years the schools will reimburse the foundation at 5 percent interest, Mr. Hancock said.
“It's a very nice building. It will serve our purpose well,” Mr. Hancock said of the 20,000-square-foot, two-story training facility, which was renovated by OCG in 1994.
Built in 1923 as Hamilton Catholic High School, the Dayton Street building is about twice the size of the school administrative offices it will replace. Its size, past use, condition, elevator, parking and location make it ideal for use by the schools, said Joni Copas, district spokeswoman.
“This gives us the opportunity to bring our administrators together and gives us room for training,” Mrs. Co pas said, noting that on average the district holds 150 training sessions each year. “It's handicap accessible, which our offices now aren't, and it gives us the opportunity to bring everyone together in one spot. We won't have to try to find or rent space for our training sessions.”
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