Carmichaels Area considers design drawings
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CARMICHAELS – Carmichaels Area School Board met with its architect Thursday to review the design drawings for its school renovation project.
The board met with Kevin Hayes of Hayes Design Group prior to its regular meeting to discuss the drawings. The board will hold a special meeting at 7 p.m. Oct. 3 to approve final design drawings for the project.
The board is planning to renovate all three of its buildings, a project estimated to cost between $23 million and $25 million. With state reimbursement estimated at $7 million, the district’s costs will be between $16 million and $18 million.
Hayes reviewed a time schedule for the project with the board that showed the district advertising for bids in February and awarding contracts for the renovations in March.
The board earlier had considered two options in regard to building improvements: one called for renovating all three buildings, and the other for renovating the senior high and elementary schools and building a new junior high school.
The board agreed to move ahead with the plan to renovate all three buildings, which will preserve the buildings and cost less than building a new junior high school.
Prior to the special meeting Oct. 3, the board will hold a meeting at 6 p.m. of the human resources committee. Board member Ronald Ferek, chairman of the committee, requested the meeting to discuss class sizes in the elementary school.
In other business, the board voted to appoint Jered Rastoka and Zachary Gouzd as the senior class sponsors. It also hired Albert McMinn as a district van driver at $30 a day.
Tenure was granted to Elizabeth Popielarcheck, who has been employed by the district for the last three years as a special education teacher.
In his report, Superintendent Craig Baily said he will provide the board with information at the October meeting regarding the new school profiles that are being developed by the state to measure the schools’ academic performance.
Pennsylvania earlier received a waiver from the U.S. Department of Education on the No Child Left Behind program. The state will implement a new system that will no longer use adequate yearly progress to measure school accountability.
A number of questions regarding the state’s new system still remain unanswered, Baily said.