Nelsonville-York City School District passed their bond issue last fall, but decisions on how exactly to spend that money began at yesterday's school board meeting. The hard part is the paperwork, said district maintenance director Ron Mash, the school representative for the building project.
Right now
we are looking at the new space and the old space and how we can remodel he said. We don't want to build a school and look at it later and say we need four more classrooms.
This research has resulted in the district's program of requirement, which basically is a floor plan for a new school complex that would house the entire district, Mash said. The program of requirements will then go to the Ohio School Funding Commission to review. The commission will provide 86 percent of the funds necessary to build the school. Money raised from the bond issue will pay for the rest.
The building is scheduled to be completed by 2008, but the first step is for the school board to approve the contract with Triad Architecture Ltd., the architecture firm used by the commission in all its projects.
The board also had the option last night of approving SA England & Associates to survey the sight for the building project for a charge of $9,200. Mash said that was the best offer they had received, with the second best offer being $17,000.
The board, however, decided to hold off on most of the paperwork for the building process, including the contracts for the architects and the surveyors, until Mike Nolan, a local attorney that works with the schools, takes a look at both contracts. A special board meeting will be held Feb. 16 to make a decision on the contracts.
Superintendent Ted Bayat said the contract with Triad is the standard contract used with all building projects done through the commission.
We just don't enter a contract without (Nolan's advice) board member Gary Edwards said.
The architects sent by Triad said that in order for the project to stay on course, the approved contract and plans must be sent to the commission immediately after the meeting.
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