NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
PRETTY PRAIRIE, Kan. — The projects connected with the $7.7 million bond that was approved by voters this spring for Pretty Prairie USD 311 are getting ready to start.
"Next week is when all of our roofing materials get delivered," said Pretty Prairie USD 311 Superintendent Ashley Anderson. "We are trying to figure out where's the best place to put all of that. Windows, we have our bid day, basically, is next week sometime and gym design is in full swing. We have engineers coming on campus this Friday and they will be walking around to our science lab and our ag shop, because that's part of the ventilation and electrical upgrades that we are doing there."
The roof projects will get done this fall, provided there is dry weather for them to get them done.
"They gave us a time line of just about a month," Anderson said. "We're doing TPO on all of the roofs. From what I'm learning about it, it goes pretty quickly. We've got three buildings that they are doing. We've got a few areas where they have also got to add some insulation over a gym and stuff like that. Fairly large projects, I guess, for us, but at the same time, once they get moving, it looks like they go pretty quickly."
There appears to be a little bit of a slowdown on the gym portion at this point.
"We were hopeful, when everything first passed and we got initial timelines, thinking that maybe we could start footing work and break ground basically, in October," Anderson said. "That's definitely not going to happen. It would probably be the first of the year before anything would get rolling with the gym."
Anderson said they would provide photos of the progress on the district's website under the bond page.
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