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School board approves $107K in summer projects [Clay Center Dispatch, Kan.]
(Clay Center Dispatch (KS) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) May 5--Over half of the $107,000 the school board approved Monday in summer maintenance projects went toward improvements to Wakefield Schools.
The biggest chunk of those projects went toward replacing windows in Wakefield Schools. The board approved a bid from Bloom Construction, Clay Center, to replace windows in rooms 201 through 207, the storage room, office and staircase for $58,365. An additional $1,000 was budgeted for blinds.
Bloom construction priced option to replace the windows over two years instead of one for $4,538 more. Wallace and Sons Glass Inc, Junction City, priced the project at about $10,000 more regardless of whether it was done in one year or two.
Assistant Superintendent Cliff Williams said staff felt the windows really should be replaced in one year and not be delayed.
"Any time we can improve efficiency, save some money and produce a better environment for learning (we should do it)," Williams said, "and it does make a big difference in the environment."
The board axed ventilation improvements in the Wakefield gym in part because the lowest bid came back at $28,000, almost double what estimates had anticipated.
Superintendent Mike Folk said the bid didn't surprise him because he thought $15,100 for the project was too low, but board members said they did not expect it to be that high.
Board members Jean Frigon, Clay Center, and Brad Mason, Wakefield, argued to do the project anyway. Board member Jeffrey Cannizzo, Wakefield, expressed support at previous meetings but stepped out during Monday's discussion because of a conflict of interest.
Board member Mike Crimmins said Wakefield's gym isn't any worse than other gym in the district.
"I think windows are a lot more important than ventilation," he said.
Board member Steve Debenham said he didn't support the project when it was expected to cost $15,100.
Active termites and damage at Wakefield Schools prompted to approve about $12,000 in repairs and treatment with the summer maintenance projects. American Pest Control will spray the school grounds for termites. The school will also remove and repair a kitchen wall where the termites are active.
The board also approved a $3,115 preventive maintenance contract with Thermal Comfort Air, construction of a wall between rooms 8 and 9 for multiple computer station at CCCHS for $3,700, replace two exterior doors in the CCCHS ag. room for $7,850, CCCHS boys bathroom partitions for $3,540, CCCMS art ceiling for $6,770, CCCMS shop room ceiling for $5,710, storage shed improvements for $5,300, erosion control at CCCHS southeast entry for $500, CCCHS practice field in fill for $600 and replacing a boiler door at Wakefield for $250.
Mason said a member of Wakefield's Site Council asked why the board didn't do all of the projects on the list since it has money in reserve in capital outlay.
District projects delayed until the 2009-2010 school year would have been an additional $143,026, including $28,000 for Wakefield gym ventilation, $25,500 for CCCHS locker room floors and shower towers, $40,000 to replace CCCHS lockers in the locker room, $7,452 to fix surface of the Wakefield junior high locker room, $18,000 ro replace floor tile at CCCHS, $8,000 to paint the CCCHS gym walls and ceiling, $2,000 to repair and repaint CCCHS student lockers, and $14,074 to replace locks at the other schools.
The board also:
-- approved purchasing 30 iMac machines, 90 Mac Books, and two mobile carts with printers and wireless cards on a four-year lease for a total of $141,003.81 on lease payments of $36,776.65,
-- discussed handbook changes for district schools, most of which changes how they are worded.
Clay Center Community High School had the most significant changes, which adds laser lights to weapons not allowed, changes its electronic use policy to allow walkmans, CD players, ipods and MP3 players in the classroom if teachers permit them and proposes a unexcused absence policy that will have not allow academic credit for a class after 10 unexcused absences unless an appeal committee allows it.
-- approved extended day contracts, including five days for a librarian and 10 day for a counselor at each school Lincoln Elementary, Wakefield Schools and CCCMS, and 96 days between 10 instructors at CCCHS.
-- accepted resignations of CCCMS head eighth-grade football coach Thoams DeBauche, assistant CCCMS football coach Wayne Link, CCCMS seventh-grade girls basketball coach and CCCHS assistant baseball coach Rocky Downing,
-- discussed changes in the district's drug/alcohol discipline policy (see tomorrow's Dispatch for more details),
-- discussed curriculum changes at the schools, include adding seventh- and eighth-grade Spanish, Second Tier music, math and reading courses and pre-algebra for seventh-graders at CCCMS, offering French at CCCHS through ITV rather than as a class, and replacing the vocational education class with a woodworking class at Wakefield High,
-- discussed disposing of Longford School in the same manner as Green and Morganville schools had been disposed, by giving them to the city. Folks said he had one person contact him who is interested in the building. Board member Tom Roth said if the city wants it, they should have it.
-- directed Folks to look into more exterior cameras district buildings, and CCCHS in particular, and
-- approved Blue Cross/Blue Shield Consortium Trust amendments that gives the district more direct control over those funds.
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