Chesterfield County voters will get a chance this November to decide whether a school will be built in the Midlothian area to ease overcrowding at two elementary schools.

Funding for the new $30.6 million school is part of a $304 million bond package that would go toward revitalization and renovations at 10 schools as well as the new one.

The new elementary school would help alleviate overcrowding at Bettie Weaver and J.B. Watkins elementary schools.

Both schools are overcrowded and in need of relief, said Shawn M. Smith, a spokesman for Chesterfield schools.

Watkins is at 120 percent capacity. The school is using two mega-trailers that have six classrooms each. Not all of the classrooms are in use.

At Weaver, the school is at 98 percent capacity and is using five regular trailers.

The problem is only going to get worse, Smith said.

Watkins is our most overcrowded school. By 2020 it will be at 154 percent overcapacity, he said. To put that into perspective, youre talking about an additional 500 students that would need to be placed in other schools.

Watkins isnt alone. Smith said other schools in the Midlothian area are projected to be at 90 to 95 percent capacity.

Within that general area, we wont have the space to accommodate that additional projected 500 students, he said.

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By Mike Danahey mdanahey@stmedianetwork.com August 14, 2013 11:54PM

The 43-year-old Hemmens Cultural Center in Elgin needs new boilers, which are expected to cost the city $273,000. And the Elgin Symphony Orchestra owes the city more than $300,000 in back rent for use of the facility. | Sun-Times Media File

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ELGIN A city council vote to pay to replace three boilers at the Hemmens Cultural Center led to heated rhetoric about the Elgin Symphony Orchestras lingering debt to the city.

The council Wednesday night unanimously approved a contract with F.H. Paschen for the new boilers in the amount of $273,232. According to supporting material for the meeting, earlier this summer staff found the that one of three 18-year-old boilers had failed beyond repair and the other two were in poor condition.

This is a distasteful bid that I have to support, Councilman John Prigge said.

Prigge said the bill for the replacement boilers should be sent to the ESO. He noted that the money being used is coming from the parks and recreation budget and that it could go to other worthy projects.

I hate being forced to play into this insanity, and I hate myself for supporting this, Prigge said.

The symphony owes the city more than $300,000 in back rent for its use of the 44-year-old Hemmens. The ESOs finances and financial arrangement with the city have been discussed at past council sessions dating back to January and are set to be brought up again either in two weeks or at the first council meeting in September.

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Leander, TX (PRWEB) August 13, 2013

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BERNARDS TWP. Seeing a rare opportunity, the Board of Education voted in a special meeting Monday to seek $2.55 million in state grants that would help fund $9.06 million in heating and cooling upgrades at five district schools.

School Business Administrator Rod McLaughlin said the state recently made available regular operating district grants with an application deadline of Wednesday, Sept. 4. District officials did not know when such money would be available again.

The district already has a capital reserve nearly large enough to fund the long-planned upgrades on its own, so there were no objections to the grant requests.

I think its a great opportunity to get money thats so hard to get from the state, said board member Elaine Kusel.

The upgrades are sought for Ridge High School, William Annin Middle School and Oak Street, Cedar Hill and Liberty Corner schools. The only exception is Mount Prospect School, which was not built until 1999. The other schools all precede 1970.

Two grant requests will be filed for each school one to replace the schools unit ventilators, which act as heaters; and one to upgrade the schools heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) system.

A total of 182 unit ventilators would be replaced. McLaughlin said the units are all at least 35 to 39 years beyond their useful life.

The HVAC projects would include upgrades to the electrical service and operational software.

An upgraded system should allow us to control all of the energy uses a lot better, McLaughlin said. The schools were expanded at different times so theres a different system in each building. It makes it a lot more complicated.

The upgrades should produce long-term energy savings, he added.

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The Talladega City Council unanimously passed four resolutions during a meeting Monday night at City Hall, but one in particular garnered the most attention during a public hearing held before the council meeting.

Resolution 2848 approved a $20,300 contract with the East Alabama Regional Planning and Development Commission for administration of the Community Development Block Grant for the Frazier Farms Drainage Project

Lance Armbrester and Chuck Chitwood of CDG Engineers discussed the details of the project designed to improve the water flow and drainage in two basins located between and around Frazier Street and Battle Street to the north and south and Rosa Street and Long Street from west to east.

All the runoff from this area comes from lawns, driveways and roadside ditches, Chitwood said. The first thing we had to do to figure out what was going on was to make site visits.

The first site the engineers researched was the Southwest Basin, an area between Rosa Street and Elbert Davis Street.

We have a significant amount of excavation work to be done in that area in order to accommodate the storm water, Armbrester said. All storm water in this area has been documented to be very severe to the point where there are several homes that are expected to be flooded several times each year.

The team then took time to study the North Basin, an area twice the size of the Southwest Basin and surrounding the smaller basin on the western, northern and eastern edges.

We have some significant design work to do in this area, Chitwood said.

Council President Horace Patterson proclaimed the drainage woes had been an issue for the city for close to 20 years.

I started to use the word disaster, but I think maybe the best word would be embarrassment that people have to live in that kind of situation for that long, Patterson said. Im trying to figure out how much benefit were going to get from this project as it relates to the issue.

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BERNARDS TWP. Seeing a rare opportunity, the Board of Education voted in a special meeting Monday to seek $2.55 million in state grants that would help fund $9.06 million in heating and cooling upgrades to five district schools.

School Business Administrator Rod McLaughlin said the state recently made available regular operating district grants with an application deadline of Wednesday, Sept. 4. District officials did not know when such money would be available again.

The district already has a capital reserve nearly large enough to fund the long-planned upgrades on its own, so there were no objections to the grant requests.

I think its a great opportunity to get money thats so hard to get from the state, said board member Elaine Kusel.

The upgrades are sought for RidgeHigh School, WilliamAnninMiddle School and Oak Street, Cedar Hill and Liberty Corner schools. The only exception is Mount ProspectSchool, which was not built until 1999. The other schools precede 1970.

Two grant requests will be filed for each school one to replace the schools unit ventilators, which act as heaters; and one to upgrade the schools heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) system.

A total of 182 unit ventilators would be replaced. McLaughlin said the units are all at least 35 to 39 years beyond their useful life.

The HVAC projects would include upgrades to the electrical service and operational software.

An upgraded system should allow us to control all of the energy uses a lot better, McLaughlin said. The schools were expanded at different times so theres a different system in each building. It makes it a lot more complicated.

The upgrades should produce long-term energy savings, he added.

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A long stretch of daily rainy weather put some crimps in the plans for contractors working on the six Indiana Area School District buildings this summer.

With that wave of challenges behind, the supervisors and workers have tweaked their schedules and all now expect to meet their deadlines as planned.

When the school bells ring and students start classes for the new school year on Aug. 27 (the Tuesday before Labor Day), the only work still under way will be in Ben Franklin and Eisenhower elementary schools.

And school officials say the students and teachers in the classrooms should barely notice. Just as when work began and continued through the 2012-13 school year, renovations will be done after school hours or in areas away from the classrooms.

But in the four other buildings Horace Mann and East Pike elementary schools and the junior- and senior-high schools all the work should be finished and the students should see finished products.

That is, as long as the nice weather prevails, said Greg Trout, the supervisor of buildings and grounds for the district.

This school-by-school status check for the district is unprecedented. Since early 2012, the Indiana Area School District has taken on a project like no other in its history.

Because of state school funding guidelines, large-scale projects in the past were limited to one building at a time.

But under a new state law that allows schools to work outside those traditional rules choosing the contractors that can do the most efficient rather than the least expensive work Indiana designed a districtwide plan to make improvements that will pay for themselves by reducing energy consumption and utility bills.

With a district-appointed project manager called an ESCo Energy Services Company to oversee the improvements, a series of subcontractors have installed new lighting systems, water-saving plumbing fixtures and weatherproofing measures in all the schools.

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