(Spirit Lake)– Students, teachers and administrators at Spirit Lake High School are hoping for a warmer-than-normal fall.
It was reported at Monday evening’s school board meeting the boiler that heats the older portion of the high school building has been removed in conjunction with the Sami Center and gymnasium projects. It won’t be replaced until mid to late October. In the meantime, the gym, weight room, and five classrooms won’t have heat.
The board also learned Monday it may be faced with littany of changeorders on the projects if they decide to follow through with enhancements. Those would include things such as a higher quality gym floor, better seats for the bleachers, a score board, scorer’s table, and hoists and related infrastructure to mechanically lift up and store wrestling mats and volleyball standards. That would be in addition to 436,159-dollars in items included in a wish list for the Sami Center.
The board Monday voted to get a request for a proposal to see what it would cost to design pre-cast walls and ceiling joists for the gym project to support the infrastructure for wrestling mat hoists and suspended volleyball standards. The architect is expected to report back to the board with those costs at next month’s meeting.
The Spirit Lake school board also Monday held it’s annual reorganizational meeting. Beth Will was re-elected Chairman and Ann Goerss as Vice President.
They also voted to move up the start-times of meetings to 6:30 p.m. instead of 7:00 p.m. Meetings will continue to be held on the second Monday of the month.
