The Eastern Pulaski School Board will meet tonight to discuss some additional improvements with money left over from the schools’ recent renovation project.
Superintendent Dan Foster says that as the renovation wraps up, it appears the corporation has about $1.6 million remaining. “You plan for soft costs and architectural and engineering and attorney’s fees and things like that,” he explains. “You’re estimating those costs up front because you don’t know. And so with some of the allowances and contingencies that were not utilized, we’ve got a nice little chunk of funds left yet.”
Foster says the school board has been considering a list of items that were missed during the renovation, including updates to the middle school office, as well as asphalt and sidewalk work. “We’ve got almost 50 items on that list, so we can surely spend the money,” he says. “But we’re going to meet Tuesday night and start trying to whittle that down and say, ‘Where are our priorities with this?'”
Tonight’s special Eastern Pulaski School Board meeting starts at 5:30 p.m. in the Conference/Meeting Center.
