NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The first thing Pretty Prairie USD 311 did after they got the bond issue passed this past spring was get to work on the roofs of their buildings and that work has paid off, especially in recent days.
"We were talking about it, because there's a final walk through of the roofing project," said USD 311 Superintendent Ashley Anderson. "They are going to do a final walk through, but I told them, I said, I was sitting in my office when it was raining so terribly on Monday and it's like, wow, I don't hear that drip, drip, drip that I used to hear right above my head, so it's like, okay, we have made some progress, so that was exciting."
There are still issues that need to be addressed, but the weather needs to improve to get to some of those.
"Our next project will be the windows," Anderson said. "We're getting all new windows in all of our classrooms and buildings. The ordering of all of that glass and everything, we weren't projected to start that until March. After Spring Break, we'll start at the high school and then go to the middle school and then do the grade school in the summer, so we aren't disrupting them at all. That will be the next project."
Maybe the most anticipated project, especially in the midst of the current basketball season, is the gym upgrades, but those will be a while longer yet.
"The gym is the one where everybody's like, why are we not moving, why are we not moving?" Anderson said. "It's hard for me to understand all of the eyes and hands that have to see those plans. They are still making its way through all the engineering firms and everything like that. We're still anxiously awaiting a start date, or a dig date, I guess."
The hope is to get the plans back to the board either this month or next.
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