Board of Education approves $23M facility plan

The school board approved the final draft of the district’s facilities plan, $23 million in potential building projects to be completed in the next five years during its meeting last Wednesday night.
Capital construction projects — scheduled to be completed from 2012-2014 according to the school board’s wishes, bonding and funding potential — include:
 $5 million for the high school
l  $1.52 million for the middle school
l  $1.4 million for six additional preschool classrooms for the Ezra B. Sparrow Early Childhood Center
l  $250,000 in combined renovations for Saffell Street, Robert B. Turner and Emma B. Ward Elementary
Other capital construction scheduled for after 2014 include:
l  $5.36 million for a new Phoenix Academy to hold 150 students
l  $300,000 in major renovations to Saffell Street Elementary School.
Other capital construction priorities listed regardless of schedule are:
l  $1.13 million for a bus garage
Discretionary construction projects are:
l  $200,000 for an Ag show pavilion at the high school
l  $6 million for a multipurpose athletic fieldhouse/natatorium
l  $919,519 for renovations for the middle school and all three elementary schools.