Industry backs Wyoming tech ed center

Two Campbell County commissioners have won support from 10 companies in the energy industry to raise local property taxes to help build a technical education center at Gillette College.

The tax would raise an estimated $3.9 million a year toward the $36.8 million project, half the cost of which is being covered by the state. The Legislature last winter also approved funding for a health sciences building at Laramie County Community College and a new diesel mechanic program at Western Wyoming Community College.

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