Skip Schulz/For the Gazette Copper Country Intermediate School Board Members Gale Eilola (left) and Nels Christopherson holding awards for their years of service from the district.

HANCOCK — The Copper Country Intermediate School District (CCISD) revealed their plans for the northeast corner of the Career and Technical Education (CTE) Center now that Michigan Works has vacated the space on Tuesday night. The space has two offices that the CTE director and secretary will move into, a kitchenette that will stay the same, and three larger rooms.

The larger room on the corner of the building will become a conference room with a podium and a large presentation screen. It already has whiteboards that will remain in place.

“It’s going to be a great collaborative space for meetings,” said Mike Richardson, the Regional Education Media Center One Director.

The room across the hall will be outfitted with video conferencing equipment, and the room next to that will be a flexible work space.

“We talked about setting up some desks with phones,” Richardson said.

Once that is complete, some of the conferences currently held at the CCISD building on Hecla Street will be moved to the CTE building, which has better parking available in the lot across Quincy Street. Superintendent George Stockero showed the board photos he took of the CCISD parking lot earlier on Tuesday.

“The cars are parked all the way down on the grass,” he said.

Moving those meetings to the CTE building will also let the support net space used for the help desk employees to expand into one of the conference rooms in the CCISD building. The help desk has expanded to five full-time employees and seven interns this year.

At the end of Tuesday’s meeting, Stockero had one last item.

“Not only does staff deserve awards, but so does my school board,” he said.

Nels Christopherson has served on the CCISD board for 25 years and Gail Eilola has served for 20 years. Stockero presented them with a commemorative clock and plaque respectively.

“I thank you very much for that many years,” he said.

Christopherson said that he finds serving on an ISD board rewarding in ways beyond regular education because of the special services they provide. Eilola said that the technology upgrades during his tenure on the board are recognized throughout the state.

“We’re on the bleeding edge,” he said.

The board still meets in the same room they did 25 years ago, even though it’s been remodeled and re-equipped with different furniture and electronics.

“We’ve seen quite a bit of change,” Christopherson said.