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USD 415 Board Receives Bond Project Schedule

By Greg Bebermeyer

04/15/2015

(KNZA)--With last week’s approval of a $9.2 million bond issue by voters in the Hiawatha school district, a timeline has now been set for improvement’s planned to the district’s schools.

Dana Dunn, with the Lenexa-based P1 Group, which is serving as construction manager at-risk on the bond project, presented to the Board of Education Monday evening a preliminary schedule.

Work scheduled for this summer includes the elementary school plumbing upgrade, elementary school drainage improvements and elementary school roofing project. In addition,security and life safety improvements will also be done at all three schools this summer.

Dunn said plans are to do the remainder of the projects--including HVAC improvements--next summer, with the engineering for all the work to be done this year.

The board will hold a special meeting Friday morning at 7 to approve the paperwork for the sale of the bonds.

Board President Matt Sprick thanked the community and patrons for their support of the bond issue, which he says will secure the physical state of the district's schools for years to come.

In other business, the board approved a three-year plan for summer projects to be funded through capital outlay funds, with nearly $190,000 worth of projects set for this summer.

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