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Posted: 9:41 PM Aug 12, 2010
Progress Report for Putnam County School Construction
School is just around the corner and this year, in Putnam County, the work won't just be going on inside the classroom. The county is busy building five new schools.
Reporter: Kallie Cart Email Address: kallie.cart@wsaz.com |
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PUTNAM COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- School is just around the corner and this year, in Putnam County, the work won't just be going on inside the classroom. The county is busy building five new schools.
Voters approved a school building bond in August of 2009 and now the money is being put to use.
The biggest changes are at Poca Elementary and Middle Schools. The site work is underway preparing for the new buildings and moving utilities.
The new buildings will attach to the existing elementary school and then snake around behind the old middle school. Once the buildings are complete, the middle school will be torn down. The existing section of the middle school will also be renovated.
Assistant Superintendent Bob Hall says the work will be done in parts so that students will not be disturbed.
"All the changes that they're going to see will be outside this year," Hall says. "Once they enter the doors it will be business as usual."
One change for students though will be the playground. It had to be removed to make way for the new school so students will have a play area rather than a play ground.
Within a month, dirt should start flying on other projects in the county too.
"Anything north of the river folks have been in great anticipation because they felt it's been a long time coming and they're ready for it," Hall says. "We get calls practically daily in the office saying we haven't seen any progress."
But that will soon change. The site work for Buffalo High School and Confidence Elementary is scheduled to go out for bid in the next two weeks, then that work will begin.
Hall says those projects will be easier because the schools are being built on new sites so the work won't have to be done around the existing schools.
The work to build a new Winfield Middle School is also set to begin soon.
"We will have taken care of 90% of the building needs in this county with this bond," Hall says.
The projects have to be completed within three years of passing the bond, so that means by August of 2012.
Hall says Buffalo High School should be the first to open in January of 2012.
The funds to build the new Winfield Middle School are coming from the School Building Authority, so it's on a bit of a different time-line. But Hall says it should also be completed around August of 2012.
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