Published in the January 6 – 19, 2016 issue of Morgan Hill Life
Photo by Marty Cheek
The Morgan Hill Chamber of Commerce staff and ambassadors joined State Sen. Bill Monning, Morgan Hill Mayor Steve Tate and Gavilan College board members and representatives for a ribbon cutting of a new campus in Coyote Valley.
Located at 560 Bailey Road in San Jose, when finished the site will comprise 28,800 square feet in five single-story modular buildings, and will include classrooms, and specialized facilities for the police academy program. Funding for the site comes from Bond Measure E which voters passed in 2004 to upgrade the Gilroy campus and to establish future campuses at Coyote Valley, the northern part of the Gavilan College district, and San Benito County, the district’s southern end, where land has also been purchased for a future campus.
With completion of the first phase, the Coyote Valley site will become the site for public safety training for police officer recruits which makes up about 10 percent of Gavilan College’s enrollment and brings in $2.4 million every year in revenue from the state of California. The first phase of the Coyote Valley campus is estimated to cost $21 million.
