NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
PRETTY PRAIRIE, Kan. — As Pretty Prairie USD 311 prepares to start school Wednesday, USD 311 Superintendent Ashley Anderson said work on projects approved as part of the district's bond issue has not started yet.
"We've got a schedule of projects," Anderson said. "The roofs are going to be one of the first projects. Those have been out to bid. We're just waiting right now on our CMAR to contact us and go through those. Windows, we'll start chipping away at that. The big work with the gym expansion. We'll start outside work probably in October, from what I've seen on the schedule."
The bulk of the gym expansion work will come in the summer of 2024.
"Secure entrances will come next summer, just due to the remodeling that goes on with that," Anderson said. "We're hopeful to get windows and our ag shop and our science lab, those things taken care of during the school year."
Because of that, both teachers and students are going to have to be flexible as projects go forward.
"We were working on a different project this last week when we had teachers in the building that wasn't bond issue related, but something that we needed to get done," Anderson said. "You could hear all the clinking and the pounding on things. We were just kind of all like, hey, we need to get used to it and embrace these sounds, because that means good things are happening."
The bond passed in May is a total bond of $7.7 million.
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