Checkovich said efforts to build more space for the college's burgeoning programs continue, and hopes state lawmakers could help with school's infrastructure needs.
The school currently leases its primary classroom space on the first floor of the Berkeley County office building at 400 W. Stephen St., which Checkovich previously has said is tight.
College officials have identified land near City Hospital and Interstate 81 on the edge of Martinsburg's municipal boundary as a potential site for a campus, and state lawmakers last year allocated $3 million to purchase land. But a separate bill to allow a certain amount of bonds be issued for capital improvement projects at CTCs and four-year colleges statewide did not pass.
"It came very close to making it through," Del. Walter Duke said Friday.
A member of the House Education Committee, Duke said he had not heard of any potential roadblocks for the bond issue legislation for the Higher Education Policy Commission so far this year, but added he had not yet seen the bill.
In June 2007, Blue Ridge CTC gave itself the authority to develop a contract to purchase property near the hospital after the Berkeley County Commission a few months earlier purchased the former Martin's Food Market plaza off South Raleigh Street for $3.15 million.
More information about Blue Ridge Community and Technical College can be found at www.blueridgectc.edu.
