jwhittaker@post-journal.com Above, Brittnay Spry, Jamestown Public Schools business official, discusses the district’s five year, $86.5 million capital improvement project.
Below, Paul Abbott, Jamestown Public Schools board president, speaks about the capital improvement project.
P-J photos by John Whittaker
Above, Brittnay Spry, Jamestown Public Schools business official, discusses the district’s five year, $86.5 million capital improvement project.
Below, Paul Abbott, Jamestown Public Schools board president, speaks about the capital improvement project.
P-J photos by John Whittaker
New floors at Lincoln Elementary Schools have been added to a five-year, $86.5 million Jamestown Public Schools District capital improvement project.
School board members approved the final scope of work during a special meeting Tuesday. A public hearing on the capital project will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 11, in the Persell Middle School auditorium as part of the district’s
Jamestown High School could be getting a major facelift in the coming years.
District voters are likely to have a referendum on the May 18 school budget ballot for an $86,200,000 million capital project that involves the high school, Persell Middle School, Ring Elementary School, Fletcher Elementary School, the district bus garage, Raymond Fashano Tech Academy and districtwide information technology upgrades.
“The goal is to make sure our students are warm, safe and dry so that they can learn and we can provide the best program for them as possible,” said Dr. Kevin Whitaker, Jamestown Public Schools superintendent.
While specifics are still being determined, preliminary documents reviewed by the Board of Education on Tuesday have more than half ($44,736,000) of the overall proposed project being spent at JHS. Board members have between now and the end of March to make a final decision on the scope of the project.