Plans for the Career Technical Education facility at Ripon High is expected to be done in five stages.

Director of Operation and Maintenance Andy Strickland mentioned that at last week’s Ripon Unified school board meeting.

The first of that is the site work along with the three portable classrooms and parking lot on the north end of campus – just outside of the utility field.

Strickland added that the Division of State Architect just approved most of the work and “now we’re ready to move on with the actual (installation of) portables and site work,” he said.

CT Brayton & Sons, the Escalon-based general contractor, not only received all plans for the portables and Increment 1 – site work and parking lot – but has distributed them to the subcontractors for bids.

Strickland set a tentative completion date for the portables and parking lot for Jan. 5, just after students and staff return from the holiday break.

The two-story CTE building is listed as Increment 2.

Those plans were submitted for review on Sept. 5, and that process is estimated to take about 10 weeks, according to Strickland.

“You can thank us for the discomfort that’s coming up,” Trustee Vince Hobbs said jokingly to those at RHS.

He also took time to praise the ag and CTE programs at the high school.

Ground breaking for this much-anticipated project could take place sometime next month.