Plans for career-training hub in Willits announced Tuesday

A plan to turn the Willits campus of Mendocino College into a source of skilled and well-paid workers who can fulfill some of the region’s most-pressing needs was announced Tuesday by local lawmakers and community leaders.

“This is a good damn day for Willits, for Mendocino County, and for Mendocino College,” said State Sen. Mike McGuire (D – Healdsburg) to the crowd gathered March 10 at the college’s North County Center in Willits as he announced “the largest outside funding investment in the college’s 50-year history,” which he described as “nearly $20 million from the state and federal governments, 100-percent of which will be invested in a new, 18,843 square-foot facility which will be a hub for career-training programs here in Mendocino County.”

Anticipated to open in spring of 2029, McGuire said the campus expansion will offer students training in home construction, lab service technology and fire science, describing the fire-fighting component as particularly important given that Mendocino County has “been on the front lines of the wildfire crisis for years, and so we need a larger, well-trained fire-fighting workforce. And I couldn’t be more excited that we are building the newest Fire Academy on the North Coast right here in Willits.”

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