A small crowd applauded her at a ceremony Friday afternoon.
The school district allocated $800,000 from its SMART bond program to get the demolition done. Across the district, however, dozens of the district s other renovation projects are way behind schedule, including new air conditioning systems that need to be installed and new cafeterias that need to be constructed.
Broward Superintendent Robert Runcie said that When we started out, back in 2014, the thought was that we d do roof maintenance work. Now, we re doing roof replacement on probably 90% of the roofs we have in the county.
He said the surface area of all the roofs the districts is replacing is equal to the pavement on the entire length of I-595. The bond program’s price tag jumped from $800 million to $1.4 billion.