Meeting for its monthly board conversation Monday, June 17, the Stanley-Boyd Area Schools Board considered options for moving the district office, in the interest of safety.
With all present for the conversation save Chad Verbeten and Ryan Lewallen, the Board heard from CESA 10 representative Brian Antczak on moving the district office, currently located in the middle of the building, to a more exterior location to better control access.
With Antczak’s presentation preliminary and no action taken at the conversation, two main options were presented.
Option 1 would place the office off the lower elementary entrance on the south side and cost an estimated $1,435,500. Included in Option 1 would be a new 2,000 square foot district office for an estimated $900,000, new classrooms in the 1,500 square foot old district office for $225,000, and a remodel of both the high school/middle school community room and computer lab for $310,500, affecting 2,070 square feet.
Option 2 in contrast would place a new 2,000 square foot district office off the existing pool and cost $1,225,000, as well as remodeling the old district office with a new classroom for $225,000, but without the community room or computer lab remodel.
Both district office options would be paid for through Fund 46 Capital Improvement, while a blue area in the diagram presented at the conversation would not be included being related to the rejected referendum of spring.
“That’s not happening,” Superintendent Jeff Koenig said of the spring referendum measures touching on a new gym and kitchen expansion, among other other work.
The district office move meanwhile, if it happens, would be security related in its goals, allowing for greater control of who enters and exits the building.
Reconvening Monday June 24 for its regular board meeting with all members present, the school board covered several topics, including the upper elementary remodel and roofing projects said to be largely on schedule.
Held up briefly by a flooring issue as they await the arrival of the person to do the work, progress has been made on drywall and putting the rooms together, Koenig said.
“They’ve made a lot of progress this past week on the drywall and putting the rooms together,” Koenig said of the metal stud walls with hallway windows up top for light.
As to roofing work, Koenig shared that work had started above the 100 hallway and was progressing well, with work still remaining on the 200 hallway portion and above the original gym. The last roof work to be completed as the district does needed maintenance work, a change order to address replacing of an original roof edge, uncovered as present work has peeled back three generations worth of roof work.
The change order, which calls for rebuilding 1,500 feet of roof edge on the building’s outer wall, was approved at an amount not to exceed $55,806, motion being made by Verbeten and seconded by Toni Seidl.
Closing out the school board update, board members heard Monday on a JAG National Standards Report, split between the main building and Open Doors.
With JAG an acronym standing for Job’s for America’s Graduates, the results were deemed encouraging. With 60 students total in the main building end, program graduates were making an average wage of $16.71, the top three industries being food and beverage, entertainment, and retail. The categories of Graduation, Full Time Employment, and Connectivity all measured at 100, with Positive Outcome and Further Education measuring 88.
Positive Outcome refers to any combination of employment, military, and education.
As to the report from Open Doors, all metrics came out at 100, with one post graduation student followup and an average wage of $14.50. Agriculture replaced entertainment in the top three industries for Open Doors.