WHAT’S NEXT? ARTICLE

Recent Activity

Bond/Sinking Fund Updates
- Laying concrete in hallway and new art room

- Laying blocks in new Media Center, Open in Fall

-Working on Front Entrance, Open in Fall

- New Elevator Pit

- Walls being built, West Entrance

- Steel being installed, Media Center

- Block work on Elevator Shaft, Open Fall

- Installing Panels and Windows at East River

- Looking out New Windows at East River

- Web Joist in Computer Lab and Hallway

- July Bond Advisory group at High School

- Meridian Classroom Flooring

- Meridian Main Entrance Ceramic Flooring

-Installation of Beams over Gym Hallway

- Look of the Gym Hallway from Roof

- Science Cabinets Arriving

- Pouring of Pad at Receiving

- Working on Gym Hall

- Laying Brick on West Entrance

- Steelwork being installed at Kitchen Entrance

- Remodeled Science Room

- Painting of Additional Classrooms

- Block layers mobile life arriving

- Installing sewer on a Saturday so not to affect school

- Blocks being laid next to the band room

- Laying first block for the new addition at the H.S

- Cement arriving for Media Center footings

- Blocks being laid by mobile lift next to art room

- 30 foot walls almost done for the new
media center

- Mallard baby ducks after hatching at Meridian School, Eggs came from construction site at HS

- Baby Ducks in the sink in Mishelle Tracy's classroom at Meridian

- Candi DeFran's class having a lesson in math on the eight eggs that hatched out of the eleven eggs
that came from the HS.

- "Picture I took going from C.O to H.S. one morning reminding me why we live here. The same kind of view I had out my Kindergarten room back in the 1911 building in1949." - Jack Hayward

- The future High School


- Transplanting trees along sidewalk at High School
- Installing soccer bleachers at Middle School
- Bid openings for construction contractors
- Windows and doors removed from construction area
- Construction fences being installed
- Construction trailer being installed
- Porch roof by gym being demolished
- Ten mallard eggs discovered during clearing
- Packaged mallard eggs being relocated to Meridian by yearbook students
- Blocks being delivered to High School
- Footings being poured for future art room
- Storage containers are delivered for high school teachers to store their belongings in while construction is going on over the next year

     

- Another test room at Meridian of carpet tile from Shaw Carpet installed.

     

- Pre bid meeting
- Team meeting with Tony Krukowski, Business Manager, Jack Hayward, Owner's Rep, & Tim from Wolgast Construction and his field people, Dan Jerome from French and Associates, Collie Hooper-Yan, School Board Member, and our architects.
- Contractors looking at the specification books and drawings

                     

- Met with Duncan Murdock, Fire Chief and Tom Podjaski of the construction company going over fencing and safety at the high school.
- Met with Delores Elswick, HS Principal, on construction fencing, Traffic Flow
  and teacher, student, and worker parking areas.
- Met with Tony Krantz from  of Transportation on bus traffic and flow.
 
- Bids are due for the high school on March 14, 2007
- Bid recommendations from Wolgast Corporation - March 27, 2007
BID APPROVAL
- Recommendation of bidders for the high school construction to school board for
  approval
- Recommendation on the bleacher bid to the school board
- Recommendation on the Track bid to the school board
- Recommendation on the stage curtain bid to the School board
- MARCH 6, 2007 - Construction starts on the high school with construction fencing going up
- Wireless Laptop Cart for Students at the Middle School, creating a writing lab in the classroom.
- New notebook computers for teachers
- Bid recommendations for new phone system on March 7
- Bid recommendations for Network Electronics and Cabling on March 7