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36 | I nsIgh t • M a r c h 2 0 14 w w w . i n s i g h t o n b u s i n e s s . c o m department must complete a certain amount of emergency vehicle driving training, and previously had to either find vacant parking lots or, more recently, has leased the racetrack in Kaukauna, Peterson says. "ere are certain things that we need to do on a regular basis in the field with regard to maintaining our proficiencies and our certifications, and some of those things are challenging because we don't have adequate facilities to do that type of training," Peterson says. e department also wants to train for various indoor scenarios and has had to find closed school buildings or train at the Fox River Mall aer hours. e new simulated village will open up more of those possibilities. e location of the facility itself, on the grounds of the Outagamie County Regional Airport, makes it both conducive to certain activities such as firearms training, which can be noisy for residential areas, and burn training, which can get smoky, of course. "We couldn't have found a more perfect site than we got, had we had all the money in the world to go buy something," Robinson says. Continuing eduC ation O n t h e w e b a s of January, Fox Valley Technical College has made significant progress on its $66.5 million public referendum expansion project that was approved in April 2012. Here's what's happened so far: » Expansion of the now-named Service Motor Company Agriculture Center: opened in august » The newly-constructed Health Simulation & Technology Center: opened in august » Expansion of the J. J. Keller Transportation Center: opened in January » Opening of the new Student Success Center: to open in august » Opening of the new Public Safety Training Center at the Outagamie County Regional Airport: To be fully operational in January 2015; partial operation may be sooner FVtC referendum project progress