Future of SMCC's Brunswick composite center in question
Southern Maine Community College may suspend classes at its composites training center in Brunswick if the school cannot extend its lease with the town.
SMCC President James Ortiz told The Forecaster that suspending classes at its Advanced Technology Center is a worst-case scenario when its three-year lease at a town-owned building expires Dec. 31. The college is hoping to extend its lease and the grant from the federal Department of Labor that pays for its rent until sometime in 2010, when SMCC plans to establish a campus that would include the composites center at the Brunswick Naval Air Station. But a lease extension could be tough to get. Brunswick officials are currently exploring whether to relocate the police department to the building SMCC currently occupies. And last year, town officials said the SMCC composite center cost the town $17,000 annually, according to the paper.
If SMCC cannot extend its lease, the college may not run classes next summer, Ortiz told the paper.
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