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Weathersfield schools Board gets maintenance update, will put bond issue on ballot
MINERAL RIDGE
A report on ongoing maintenance work at the schools took up much of the meeting of the Weathersfield school board.
Security cameras at the front doors of all the local school buildings have replaced nonfunctioning cameras, the board was told.
School Superintendent Damon Dohar told the board Wednesday that more roofing work was done at the Middle school in December at a cost of $2,000, repairing a small leak as part of the work.
There are repair issues in all three school buildings, he said in a facilities committee report, adding the repair process is ongoing because the buildings are old.
“They cost us quite a bit of money to maintain,” he said, especially the nearly 100-year-old middle school.
The board will return to voters on the March 6 ballot with a 6.6 mill, 30-year bond issue to generate $9.056 million and a 1-mill continuous levy for maintenance, which would generate $85,521 a year, as it seeks a local match in funds to be eligible for an Ohio School Facilities Commission $15.6 million grant.
Plans are to use that money to raze most of the middle school, except for the gym, administrative offices and bus garage. Other facets of the plan include an addition to the high school for a new junior high wing, renovations to the building, and tearing down old sections of Seaborn Elementary School, which is to become a K-4 building instead of a K-6 building.
The bond issue failed by 16 votes at the November election.
In other board business Wednesday, coaches were rehired for the 2012-13 school year, including:
Joe Stevens, varsity football coach; Jenny Staunton, varsity volleyball coach; Ronald Toth, varsity cross country coach; and Shawn Brown, varsity golf coach.