After more than a year of design and planning, construction on several capital improvement projects in the Batavia City School District is set to begin in less than a year.
Voters approved the $26.7 million improvements, which will be accomplished without a tax increase, last March.
Marco Marascio, a project manager with Campus Construction Management in Pittsford, and Tracy Conshiser-Uy, an architect with Wendel, in Buffalo, updated district trustees Tuesday night on the construction plans.
The biggest of the projects is the demolition and reconstruction of Van Detta Stadium.
Demolition will begin, Marascio said, in the fall of 2018. The area will be fenced off and also include storage of construction equipment. The new stadium will consist of pre-built grandstands and a press box and these will be wheeled in and assembled on site.
Construction will be completed by September 2019, Marascio said.
At the high school, restroom and auditorium renovations start in April 2019 during the spring break and work should be completed by August of that year. Roof work begins in June and will be finished by November.
At the middle school, auditorium renovations begin in October 2018 and will be finished by December. The fitness room is scheduled for February 2019 through April 2019. The music room in April 2019; the attendance office in June 2019; interior renovations from December 2018 through August 2019; exterior improvements begin in June 2019; asphalt shingle roof in May 2019; and HVAC modifications in May 2019, completed by August.
At Jackson School, flooring replacement, window replacement, boiler room work, and toilet room renovations in April 2019 and all completed by September 2019.
At John Kennedy School, classroom addition and toilet room renovations are from October 2018 through April 2019. Gymnasium improvements also begin in October 2018 but will take until November to complete. The auditorium demolition is in December 2018. Window replacements begin April 2019.
The work at Richmond Memorial Library includes restroom renovations, painting, floor replacement, reading room lighting, upgrade to the fire alarm system, and landscaping. All of that work is scheduled for December 2018 through May 2019.
Marascio said that where work is performed on campus during the school year, construction workers will either have a separate ingress and egress from the student entrance to the construction zone or they will be instructed to remain in the construction zone during any time students are out of classrooms.
It still pi$$es me off that
It still pi$$es me off that the board of ed didn't have the guts to split the capital vote into 2 parts. One for the building improvements (which appeared to be justified) and one for the stadium reconstruction (which is NOT justified). That stadium will not educate ANY students and the taxpayers of the district will be on the hook for $1 million in 8-10 years when the synthetic turf surface has to be replaced.
Isn't pi$$es a banned word on
Isn't pi$$es a banned word on here?
Don't know why it posted
Don't know why it posted twice... must be a pretty important question... ;>)