School Board Approves Construction Plans
The GCISD Board of Trustees, meeting in regular session July 10 (Doug Schaefer absent), approved plans for several construction/remodeling projects. Glasscock County voters recently approved bonded indebtedness to finance the work. The plans are in the school board room, and available to the public.
The latest estimated costs for the projects total approximately $3 million, and are broken down as follows: retro-fitting existing campus roofing and replacing heating and cooling systems, $2 million; retro-fitting existing P.E. facility roof, $197,000; remodeling existing toilets and replacing fixtures (no replacement of existing lines), $109,000; new vocational/agricultural building, $579,000 (includes various allowances, including those for paving, fencing and a 5-ton crane). Note that these figures are estimates, and the actual costs, when bids are taken, may be more or less than the estimates. Estimates include construction management fees, but do not include architectural/engineering fees, and do not include demolition of the existing voc/ag shop.
The new voc/ag building will have an 80 x 50-ft. shop area, plus classrooms, etc. for a total of 8,880 square feet. It will be built on the site of the existing voc/ag shop, with existing playground equipment being moved farther west from its present location.
The construction work will begin with roofing, and Superintendent Steve Long said he is hopeful that work can begin on the voc/ag shop at the end of the coming school year.