To our community,

We are writing on behalf of the Wood Technology Center, its students, and its faculty to ask for urgent help in keeping this vital institution open.

The WTC has been an established place of study and training for aspiring tradespeople for decades. Graduates have an incredible rate of success in finding and excelling in employment. The Center provides training and degree programs in residential carpentry, boatbuilding, pre-apprenticeship construction, and continuing education, as well as making contributions in skilled labor to local housing efforts. The comprehensive, hands-on education that the WTC provides is absolutely unique and produces some of the finest craftspeople in Seattle.

Despite its huge success, the WTC is on the chopping block. Without immediate support, all of its programs will end. The budget proposed by the Washington Board of Community and Technical Colleges focuses on retaining and continuing to hire the amazing staff that keeps our school running, repairing and maintaining inadequate facilities, and taking on new projects to provide excellent and accessible curricula to our current and future students.

As a satellite school of Seattle Central College, the WTC depends on funding from an institution whose budget is often lacking. With the state budget deadline fast approaching, a budget plan has been submitted to the state legislature to keep Seattle Central College from closing the WTC and several other successful satellite schools. But we need the community’s help—email or call your local legislators and put on the pressure to approve funding to the WTC, voice your support of the budget efforts and keep the future of the trades in Seattle thriving. As students of the WTC, we have created a quick and easy shortcut to contacting your legislators and voicing your support.

You have the power to save this critical institution—spread the word, use your voice, and we can save the Wood Tech Center together!

Most sincerely,

Students of the WTC