Ringgold reduces cost of new middle school
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NEW EAGLE – Ringgold School District has shaved $1.4 million from the cost of constructing a new middle school by redesigning the building to require less soil excavation work.
The new two-story building will have a rectangular shape with an open central courtyard in place of the initial design that showed two wings shaped like a V jutting toward the back of the school, said Ringgold School Board Vice President William Stein Jr.
“That would have required substantial digging,” Stein said following a board meeting Wednesday at the district’s central office in New Eagle.
The total cost of the project is now set at $42.6 million, which includes financing and other improvements to the Carroll Township campus where the high school is located off Route 136.
The new plans also show a smaller road to the building and a 650-seat auditorium. The second-floor library and computer labs will have a glass exterior at the front of the building supported by columns.
In other business, the board hired the following new teachers: Kristie Gray, high school special education; Bethany Curzi, high school health and physical education; John C. Leasure, middle school technology; Amber Skrinjorich, fifth grade; Ashley Szala, fifth grade; Jamie Andrews, elementary guidance; John Laukaitis, high school science; and Alicia R. Moon, high school special education and math.
Ashli Podrosky was named assistant elementary school principal at a salary of $70,000 her first year.
The board will hold a special meeting at 7 p.m. July 29 to fill other teaching positions.