DV construction continuing

DAVID HULSE
Posted 1/4/17

DINGMAN, PA — With the dust barely settled on the completion of 2016 projects, the Delaware Valley School Board signed up for more work on December 15. District architect Don Flynn provided the …

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DINGMAN, PA — With the dust barely settled on the completion of 2016 projects, the Delaware Valley School Board signed up for more work on December 15.

District architect Don Flynn provided the basis for last week’s round of decisions, presenting his line-by-line facilities overview report for the 2017 to 2020 school years. Several projects were approved including $1 million in repairs and construction during the 2017 summer break.

Moving beyond this summer, the board approved the long-awaited career technology education (CTE) wing.

All of the approvals were by a unanimous 8-0 vote, with member Jessica Decker not in attendance.

The biggest project of the upcoming summer projects will be replacement of the 13-year-old artificial turf on the Warrior Stadium playing field at a cost of $599,000.

When a 2014 air-conditioning study and project were done, a number of classrooms in the Dingman and Delaware Valley middle schools and the high school were not completed. In the coming summer, $197,000 will start that work, which Superintendent Dr. John Bell said will “continue in subsequent years.”

Summer will also see the end of the storage trailer and shed ghetto that DV uses for maintenance equipment and supplies. It will be replaced by a two-story pole barn. The barn’s original estimated cost was $350,000, but Bell said “in-house” district workers will do the work for $175,000.

Last on the 2017 summer completion list is the replacement of deteriorated copper pipe in the high school, priced at $20,000.

Bell said work on the CTE wing work will take one school year and the summer breaks before and after it to complete, and it isn’t expected to be finished before the summer of 2018 “at the earliest.” The cost of the 54,000-square-foot project is now estimated at $10 million.

That cost was driven down, Bell said, because in-house workers will be involved in doing 6,400 square feet of moderate renovations to existing construction, 15,200 square feet of new construction, 5,100 square feet of moderate renovation and 9,100 square feet of cosmetic work.

In other business, the board approved the recent audit of business manager Bill Hessling’s books.

The board also recognized members of the varsity football team and the boys’ varsity soccer team, both of which won district titles in the past fall season.

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