The Amarillo Independent School District’s Board of Trustees recently voted to further make progress on the district’s AmTech Career Academy. At its recent board meeting, the trustees voted to approve a contract with Navajo Office Products to purchase furniture for the facility. According to previous reports by the Amarillo Globe-News, the district’s board approved the name of its career academy during a special meeting in late October, with it being an expansion of the Amarillo Area Center for Advanced Learning (AACAL) and will be located at 3601 Plains. The board selected Tri-State General Contracting Group as the contractor for this project during the regular October meeting, with the contract for the project being approved to be $8,652,751. Overall, the project is expected to cost $9,748,590.