Board to consider plans to demolish Dickey, Roosevelt, McKinley schools

WARREN -- The city board of education will have a special meeting at 3 p.m. today at 261 Monroe St. to consider approving construction documents for the demolition of Dickey, Roosevelt and McKinley elementary schools.
The board also will vote on awarding a contract for hazardous materials abatement at Roosevelt and Dickey.
The Ohio School Facilities Commission is paying 80 percent of the district's $170 million school construction project. The school board borrowed the other money, though a bond issue approved by voters. The plan is to build five new kindergarten-through-eighth-grade buildings and a new high school.
Dickey has been closed for a few years. Roosevelt and McKinley closed at the end of the 2002-03 and the 2003-04 school years, respectively. Schools that remain in use won't be demolished until the new schools to replace them are complete.
The new schools at the sites of Lincoln and McGuffey elementary schools will be built first.