We are continuing to make progress on our Strategic Plan goal of continually improving our facilities to ensure an excellent learning environment.
As you likely know, we are replacing many doors in the MHS. Almost all the new doors are installed in the MHS, despite unforeseen circumstances, such as doors being damaged during shipment.
At our November 24 Board Meeting, the existing parking lot was approved for design and bidding. Also approved for design and bidding was the replacement of the planter with curbing and possibly a decorative fence, as well as replacement of sidewalks on the northside of our school. The board also approved design and bidding for widening the driveway near the south driveway to provide more room for parent pickup/drop-off. At our December 8th Work Session, the board approved designing and seeking bids to replace the older sections of sidewalk on the east (front) side of our school.
The plan for the south/construction parking lot is to return it to grass and close the driveway to the lot this summer when the rest of the construction is occurring.
Approving the design and bidding does not mean the work has been approved. It's an important step in the process as it allows the Board to make decisions based on actual bids, rather than estimates. Key decisions will be made when the bids come in this winter and the board will decide which projects to actually complete this summer. We are hopeful that the bids will come back favorably, so we will be able to complete more work to improve our facilities in order to help create an excellent learning environment as called for in our Strategic Plan.
Our architects have focused their capacity on the parking areas and will be starting a more comprehensive Facility Condition Assessment and Master Facility Plan which will guide our facility improvement in the years to come. We know that the Facility Condition Assessment will shine a light on many facility issues we have to resolve so we are approaching these facility improvements frugally as we need to stretch our dollars as far as they can go.