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Saline Area Schools has approved the first expenditures from the recent bond proposal.
The Board of Education voted Tuesday to spend nearly $1.8 million to approve the replacement of the roof at Harvest Elementary School.
The board awarded the bids to the following contractors:
Rex Clary, Director of Facilities for the district, said the district hired a consultant that evaluated all of the district's roofs two years ago. Last year, the district completed $2.5 million in roofing projects on time and on budget.
Clary said the Harvest roof will be completed over two summers because of the height of the school.
"It's less square footage than Pleasant Ridge, which was done last year, yet because of the height issue, it will take two summers to get this work done," Clary said.
The district is meeting with contractors to determine where the project will stop in 2023 and resume in 2024.
Trustee Brad Gerbe asked if the recent bus crash into the side of Harvest impacted the district's insurance policy and impacted the roofing project.
Clary said the district had a structural engineer examine the building.
"It's a steel post building and the brick is just a facade. Luckily for the bus driver and the building, he went between two pillars," Clary said.
Trustee Jenny Miller asked about the switch from a shingle roof to a steel roof. Clary said the district should get a 40-year life from a steel roof.
"With proper maintenance it could be longer than that," Clary said.
Answering another question from Miller, Clary said the school has been open for 21 years.
The district awarded the bids by a unanimous vote.
Sunny, with a high of 71 and low of 40 degrees. Sunny in the morning, clear overnight.
No, the motion to approve & adopt was made by Ceo, seconded by Lesch. If you're interested in an unedited/unredacted version of Monday's meeting, the link to the video recording of our budget work session and regular meeting is provided below -
Thank you to those Council members who support the citizens and the Rec Center.
Please note, the rec center now requires 1/3 to almost 1/2 of its operations be funded by the City of Saline taxpayers. Approximately 10% of our City population uses the facility, while 2/3 of the members are non-resident. It’s time the non City residents of the Saline community pays its fair share.
What happened with the funding for the needed repairs at the Recreation Center? With all of the programs and community services provided at the Recreation Center, the nearby communities spending tens of millions of dollars to build new Recreation Centers, and the number of members/high usage for the Center and part
Name all the municipalities of 10,000 people that have their own Rec Center with a pool. I'm generally curious.
Saline Area Schools needs to take over the Rec Center with a Rec creation millage and maybe a short bond issue, too, for improvements.
The mayor and city council love to spend taxpayer dollars frivolously. More and more $$$ into the rec center, that needs to stop. We still don’t have drinkable water and yet the city keeps raising rates. Can’t speak for everyone but I would much rather have clean water than a “lazy river!”
Sorry, Toby Crotty. Do not align to your assessment or thoughts. While nearby communities are spending tens of millions of dollars to build Recreation Centers (because of their value to citizens and communities), Saline is in the fortunate position of already having a very good facility in place which now needs to
You avoided my main point. The rec center is a nice amenity for those that use it. However, it is not a necessity. Clean safe water that we pay exorbitant rates for IS a necessity for EVERYONE!
The unprofessional behavior while in the supposed role of being a journalist when talking to that protester is ridiculous. The incorrect information and “facts” you spewed during the conversation are just par for the course. Thanks for showing up!
I agree with your comments about this journalist. I use the word journalist loosely here, as a journalist should be bringing forth the views of the people they are interviewing, not bringing their obvious bias into every forced conversation.
I understand the right 4 peaceful protests, why expose children to hate and show disrespect to our flag, what is that teaching the children. As a Korean Veteran I oppose anyone disrespecting our countries FLAG, shame on the protesters,