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Show School Bsord -Reviews Ccipikd Spending Finn Members of the Grand County Board of Education Educa-tion Monday night began a survey of capital improvement impro-vement needs in the various vari-ous schools of the District, which will eventually lead to a five-year plan of priorities. pri-orities. The meeting w;is the first in a series of special spe-cial meetings that will be called in the next few months aimed at completing complet-ing the master plan on capital cap-ital outlay. Surveyed Monday were lists compiled by principals princi-pals of the four schools in the District, calling fcr minor mi-nor as well as a few major ma-jor improvements which should be listed for future, attention. The presentation to the Board was made by Superintendent C. Robert Sundwall, who added corn-men's, corn-men's, additions and a number of other projects which were not pertinent, to a "particular school, bat to Districtwide needs. Following the presentation presenta-tion the Board instructed the Superintendent and staff to bejrin attaching cost estimates to the projects pro-jects mentioned, and splitting split-ting the few large projects from the remainder of the list, so that systematic year to-year work could begin limmediately on the items requiring small expenditures expenditur-es of capital outlay funds. The Vargcr projects will be placed in a separate category, cat-egory, and methods of financing fin-ancing them will be explored explo-red in the next several yoflrs. Items listed in the category cate-gory of "major" projects were headed by an auditorium audi-torium facility at Grand County High School, to seat some 1,210 persons, hoard members were nearly near-ly unanimous in their sun-port sun-port of an idea which would see the construction of a new physical education educa-tion building, smlar to the gymnasium complex at the Junior High School, adjacent adja-cent to the athletic playing fields at the high school. TlA's building would free present space now being used in the High School building, which 'could be converted into a school auditorium. The second iirccst item in this caie-gory caie-gory was a building contemplated con-templated at the junior high, which could house a cafeteria, music room complex, com-plex, counselor office, spe- cial education classrooms, etc. VTwo other buildings jwere ' also considered in this list, one at each of the elementary schools, but a number of approaches will be. explored on these projects. pro-jects. The list of minor projects, pro-jects, to be listed eventually eventu-ally in a five - year priority prior-ity schedule, include such items as room remodeling, 'blacktopping, landscaping of particular areas throughout through-out the system where sand currently creates maintenance mainten-ance and upkeep problems, 'and the year-to-year ex. psnses of painting, repla-'Ciineiit repla-'Ciineiit of school buses, annual purchase of instructional instruc-tional equipment, etc. Also to be constructed out of current income from the capital outlay mill levy, le-vy, will be a new building, hopefully to be scheduled for construction within the next year, to house the New Horizons Center for Handicapped Children. The installation of air conditioning in a number of District buildings will be considered, also, in the priority list. The Board will meet again ag-ain next Monday to review the Continuous Progress program at Southeast Elementary Ele-mentary School. Attending that meetng will be SIC School Principal Duane S. Wimmer, and program coordinator, co-ordinator, Eill Foote. The next mooting on the capital outlay priority list will be held on Feb. 15. |