The main points of discussion at the Perry County School District board meeting centered around one thing: renovations.
Jeff Keim of Incite Designs presented the board with the plans for the improvements that will be made to the final classroom pod, which includes the fifth-grade area.
“In that area we will have science rooms, and a shower room with a toilet, similar to that which is in the nurses’ office,” Keim said. “We also will have four resource rooms, which two of them are large enough to function as a classroom.”
The gym in the elementary school will also receive new finishes, lighting and sound improvements. The floors will be similar to that of the Primary Center with a sports court type feel.
Tentatively, the project is scheduled to begin during Christmas break, then the renovations of the final pod renovations to begin January 4, with the project completed by early July, giving the district time to make final preparations for the school year.
“That’s almost a month earlier than we were able to move back in when phase 2B was finished,” board president Jamie Robinson said.
Keim thought they could maybe get ahead of schedule on the project once they begin, but some of the supplies may be hard to retrieve.
“With COVID, some things like wood can be hard to track down as well as light fixtures,” Keim said. “there are some materials that are being held up by factories and manufacturing, but six months should be plenty of time to complete this project.”
The other project to be completed is the removal of many of the windows in the Old Senior High building
“Mainly the windows in the bathrooms have become rotted,” Superintendent Andy Comstock said. “They have tried to patch and fix them.”
The two options would be to replace them with a full wood window, or the second option would be a vinyl framed window. This would look the same on the outside, but inside, the window tracts and part of the window would be white. Along with the windows in the bathrooms, some of the windows on the bleacher side of the gymnasium have been worn to the point of replacement.
“Whichever we choose we can replace them in places that aren’t high traffic and see how we like them,” Director of Maintenance Daniel Oberkirsch said.
At the start of the meeting board president Jaime Robinson was recognized for his achievement as a master level board member.
The next board meeting will be on Thursday, Nov. 12. That date was changed because the regularly scheduled meeting would fall on Veterans Day.
