With golden shovels and red hard hats, trustees at San Benito High School broke ground on a new physical education building Monday.
The school has put general fund money aside to build a weight room, wrestling space and classroom where students in physical education classes can exercise while escaping the sun and rain.
The construction of the new athletic building precedes several modernization projects that will be funded with bond money. In June, voters approved Measure G—a $42.5 million general obligation facilities bond—which trustees and administrators contended would go toward academics, not athletics.
The physical education building was one of three projects—including reroofing the Mattson Gym and creating a more unified P.A. system—which had been planned for the school before the bond was approved, Trustee Ray Rodriguez told the Free Lance in August.
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