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Wolgast Corp. Project Manager Luke Gerhart addresses the Alpena Public Schools Board of Education during a special board meeting on Wednesday.
ALPENA The Alpena Public Schools Board of Education during a special board meeting on Wednesday agreed to pay MacArthur Construction $442,200 to complete site work at Ella White Elementary School this summer.
“This would include all the excavation backfill, compaction of all the soils for the building addition for the new parking lots, sidewalks, playground areas, and all of that type of work,” Wolgast Corp. Project Manager Luke Gerhart said.
The site work is part of the district’s planned renovations for the elementary school this summer, which include a new roof, a secure entryway and office area, and new boilers and associated plumbing upgrades.
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Luke Gerhart, project manager at Wolgast Corp., looks at plans for Alpena Public Schools’ upcoming bond projects.
ALPENA Renovations at Besser, Lincoln, and Wilson elementary schools are scheduled to begin in June.
The Alpena Public Schools Board of Education on Monday awarded a little over $1.3 million in contracts so renovations at the schools can begin, part of a $33.9 million bond proposal passed by voters in March.
Luke Gerhart, project manager at Wolgast Corp., told the board contractors will prepare for the work “almost immediately,” getting the preliminary work completed before construction begins in June.
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Alpena Public Schools Assistant Superintendent for Instruction Meaghan Gauthier on Monday addresses the board of education about a newly proposed project based learning course.
ALPENA The Alpena Public Schools Board of Education will allow the development of a newly proposed history course to continue and will make a final determination at a future date about whether students will be able take the class next year.
The Perspectives of Democracy course was proposed to the board’s Curriculum and Finance Committee earlier this month, where two of the committee’s three members had concerns with the course.