The Kamloops-Thompson School District will be upgrading trades classrooms at two schools with money received from the province.

SD73 secretary-treasurer Kelvin Stretch says a grant worth $1.78 million from the Ministry of Education will pay for those maintenance projects.

“We were successful in achieving two projects under the school enhancement program and those were both for dust collector upgrades, one at NorKam Secondary and one at Logan Lake Secondary.”

Stretch says that money will also allow the school district to pay for a new condensing boiler at the Bert Edwards Science and Technology School, under the carbon neutral capital program, and that’s not all.

“And then we had approval for under the bus acquisition program for four additional buses that we will be adding to the fleet because of enrollment growth and the need for four additional routes,” he says.

The grant money for SD73 is part of $206-million the government granted this week to school districts around the province for maintenance projects.