MANDATA - Construction to expand buildings at Trevorton and Mandata appears to be on schedule for Line Mountain School District.
Superintendent Dave Campbell told the school board at its meeting Tuesday night that the elementary school addition at Trevorton is now under roof, which is essential to completing the project by the week of Aug. 12. The high school addition is expected to be under a roof by July 12, which would put that project on schedule to be completed by mid-August, Campbell said.
"Once they're under roof, the weather won't stop them," he said.
Elementary schools at Dalmatia and Leck Kill closed at the end of the school year. Starting in 2013-14, all students in kindergarten through fourth grade will attend school in Trevorton, with a new wing built to accommodate the larger population. The seventh- and eighth-grade wing at the junior/senior high school in Mandata is being expanded to accommodate all district fifth-and sixth-graders.
As part of the construction, the board Tuesday night approved a change order to build one extra bathroom for kindergarten rooms at a price not to exceed $32,000.
Also, construction crews have dug 22 of 100 wells needed to complete the geothermal heating system on the high school campus.
Contracts OK'd
The board also approved the renewal of a multitude of contracts and agreements and updated several programs, including the following:
- The purchase of the Adobe Design and Web Premium Creative Suite 6 Software for Windows and Mac at a cost of $8,706.
- The purchase of 30 Dell workstations for the business computer lab at the high school at a cost of $19,480.50.
- The renewal and upgrade of the AutoDesk software license from Synergis, Quakertown, at a cost of $7,525. It will require a $750 annual subscription fee in 2015.
- The purchase of 18 Polyvision 78-inch Next Gen whiteboard systems from CDWG, Vernon Hills, Ill., at a cost of $36,972.
- Renewal of the software maintenance and licenses for the IEP Writer Special education software with Leader Services, Hazleton, at a cost of $5,945.
- Renewal of the insurance policy with Ohio Causality through Deibler, Straub and Troutman, Elizabethville, in the amount of $62,598; with PICS/Amerihealth through the same agent in the amount of $30,273; and with AG Administrators in the amount of $11,000.
- Renewal of the annual maintenance agreement on the telephone system with Sage Technology Solutions, Mount Joy, at a cost of $7,482.