WESTWOOD —
The Fairview Board of Education accepted a bid for renovations to the high school at a special meeting Tuesday evening.
The bid from Trace Creek Construction in Vanceburg for $2,288,400 will provide the school with new windows and doors, a heating and air conditioning system and new tile flooring in the cafeteria and other areas, said Ernie Sharp, finance officer for the schools.
“We’ve been wanting to get something done to the high school for several years,” Sharp said. “We decided to go ahead and do what we could with the bonding potential we have. The national and state economies are still not good, but we still wanted to move forward to give students the best educational environment they can have.”
Fairview Superintendent Bill Musick said the high school is the only Fairview school that has not been remodeled since its opening in 1961. For that reason and because of Fairview’s growing enrollment, renovations are much needed, he said.
“There were 586 kids when I came back 12 years ago. This morning there were almost 900,” Musick said. “That’s where you get more money — more kids means more money, and the more kids and money you have, the more money you can spend on the kids.”
Construction on the school is expected to begin in about three weeks, Sharp said, and the principal and staff are working on a plan to minimize disruption of the educational process. Completion of the project is anticipated for July 1 of next year.
“We don’t have to have a brand new building to have a great school,” Musick said. “We’re blessed with great teachers, great administrators and great kids, and we want to make it nice for them.”
SHANNON MILLER can be reached at smiller@dailyindependent.com or
(606) 326-2657.
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