Amador County – The Amador County Unified School District board of trustees on Wednesday will consider a proposed fundraiser program to refurbish the old Sutter Creek Grammar School to be used as a multimedia museum showcasing and preserving the history of Amador County public schools.

Elizabeth Chapin-Pinotti, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, and Sutter Creek Elementary School principal Sean Snider made a report and recommendation for consideration by trustees at their Wednesday meeting.

Chapin-Pinotti in the report said “in order to preserve and use the old Sutter Creek Grammar School, the district’s “Gifted and Talented Education Program and the students of Sutter Creek Elementary School would like to raise money and restore the old schoolhouse in Sutter Creek to a usable state.”

The proposal seeks to raise money through grants and donations. After refurbishment, Chapin-Pinotti said “we would then like to use the lower level as a museum and archive to house all of the county schools pictures, historical records and documents.” She said “Gifted and Talented Education Program and Sutter Creek Elementary School will be responsible for searching for grant money. The major portion of their project will be gathering and archiving school documents, information, historical records and memorabilia and then creating a multimedia museum for our students to use and to preserve the history of Amador public schools.”

Chapin-Pinotti said estimates will be gathered on the cost of the project, and costs for the efforts “would come entirely from grants and donations.”

In other School District news, the trustees will get a report Wednesday on the award of a $23,000 grant for career and technical education for the current school budget year.

The district applied for and was awarded the grant funded by the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006. The award is made contingent on the availability of funds, according to the California Deparment Education, which awarded the grant, saying that “if the Legislature takes action to reduce or defer the funding upon which this award is based, then this award will be amended accordingly.”

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