There was a signing of a memorandum of understanding this morning between the Belize City Council and Excelsior High School. It includes the opening of a renovated computer lab with a donation from the City Council of 6 new computers and the unveiling of internal walkways and drainage done by employees of the Council. The MOU and other projects are a part of a larger plan being coordinated by the Belize City Council, UNICEF and Restore Belize to carry out series of intervention activities in the Faber's Road Area of Belize City. The mayor explained.
Darrell Bradley - Mayor, Belize City Council
"We're trying to broaden our relationships with community assets including schools and we're doing a lot of intervention program in the Faber's road area in Belize City, we're doing a lot of infrastructures with the streets and the drainage. Faber's road, Nurse Findley Crescent, Gill street and we said that it's a project that we wanted to have more impact, we wanted to have a relationship with Excelsior, this is something that we've been talking about for two months. So what we have done today is we signed a formal MOU which now authorizes the council to continue working with Excelsior as being a real asset in this community. What we also did today is that we unveiled the renovated computer lab. The workmen for City council were here through out the last week and a half and doing all the works to facilitate to renovate the facility, tiling of the floors, painting of the walls and installing posters. The city council donated six brand new computers to them, we had our IT people come through and check the wiring and things like that, ensuring that they have internet access and wifi.
We renovated and donated chairs so that they have comfortable chairs to sit in when they are in the computer lab and we've committed by August of this year when the new school year starts we want to get the numbers of computers in the lab to 15.
We're going to do additional works with the school, of course you can see we're putting in a side walk, some side walk originally but we're doing a side walk all around the facility because what happens is that when it rains here, the children have to walk in water to access the classrooms so we're building side walks all around and that work should be finished by Monday, Tuesday of this coming week. Over the summer we're going to continue to do a lot of work including to paint the building. Also we announced that we created the Marshall Nunez scholarship for the Valedictorian of this institution so every single year we can ensure that the Valedictorian of this school which is a very prestigious school. They have a long history of sports - we want to ensure that this is a place that children love to be at, they can be in comfortable environment and know that the teachers and the principal from here are very dedicated and they need assistance from institutions like the City Council to work with them to ensure that they are meeting the needs of the young people and that is what today was all about."
The larger project will include the cementing of major streets in the area including Nurse Findley Crescent and Gill Street. Works has already been completed on Fabers road.
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