Saturday, July 17, 1999
School plan redone, awaits board's OK
BY SUE KIESEWETTER
Enquirer Contributor
NEW MIAMI — A revised plan to renovate and expand New Miami Junior-Senior High School will give the district additional space if the board of education approves the master plan and voters agree to pay $2 million.
This week the district learned that the project administrator from the Ohio Facilities Commission OK'd a $10.6 million project for the district, up from $8.1 million a year ago. The district's $2 million share requires passage of a three-part ballot issue in November, said Ron Surface, administrative assistant for the New Miami Schools.
“This is great news for the district,” said Superintendent Gene Troy, who has been working with the facilities commission to increase the size of the project for nearly a year. “I think it only happened because of our persistence.”
The revised master plan — which the New Miami Board of Education will considerThurs day — would add a wing to the junior-senior building for elementary children. When that was completed, New Miami Elementary School would close. Both middle and senior high school students would attend classes in the senior high school portion of the building.
Under the master plan, students in grades kindergarten through 6 would be housed in the 53,000-square-foot new wing and 29,680 square feet of what is now the middle school portion of the building. The rest of the students in this 930-pupil district would attend classes in what is now the senior high school. That 96,000 square feet of space would be renovated and updated.
Improvements to the building include new fire alarm and security systems, window replacement, air conditioning and roof repair. Slightly more than $500,000 is budgeted for technology. The architects decided to close rather than renovate the elementary school built in 1936, because of cost.
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