Staircase repairs expected to start in May; anticipated costs nearly $1M
By ERIN Ramble
roll@montclairlocal.news
The district will withdraw $1 million to cover costs to supervene upon iv stairwells at Montclair Overlooking School and to put up temporary trailers for high school students to utilize as classroom during expression.
In addition, the territorial dominion now expects work will not start until Crataegus oxycantha on the removal of latterly discovered asbestos and the rebuilding of the staircases.
On Monday, the BOE approved the secession of $1 million in emergency funds from the district's capital backlog fund to cover the costs.
All four staircases in the original 1914 section of the high school have been closed since September, after a basement-level section of the Park Street staircase collapsed. The closing of the staircases required the schools to close off 31 second and third-floor classrooms, requiring many classes to live moved to other areas of the campus.
The timeline for the staircase repairs was pushed back subsequently traces of asbestos were found in the wall and cap plaster in all four staircases. Zero asbestos was found in the damaged incision of the stairway.
At the Oct. 15 BOE meeting, Superintendent Kendra Johnson aforesaid the school will switch to an abbreviated-day agenda for students connected May 20. That date was chosen because most of the seniors will be taking AP tests or be remove on college visits or work-subject area programs, and will hence be out of the building.
After May 20, crews will start asbestos removal work. Once realized, influence will commence on tearing down and rebuilding the staircases. The work is expected to be done by the end of June Beaver State early July.
Nether the abbreviated schedule, students volition point up for classes either during a four-hour morning shift OR during a four-hour good afternoon shift.
Montclair will also have to fix up the two missed years from September callable to the stairway collapse. One hope is that Montclair will non have to habituate all of its snow days this winter, but President Lyndon Johnso said other options being mulled include the theory of holding classes on a weekend operating theatre taking back days from a holiday period.
Trailers
The district has contracted with Vanguard Modular Building Systems to deliver and instal quatern schoolroom trailers, each one containing 2 classrooms.
The facility and delivery of the trailers is prospective to price $232,378, and the instalmen of decking and ADA ramps is expected to cost another $50,000.
The district has also contracted with Sal Electric, Inc., to do electrical upgrades on the trailers. That work is expected to price $116,695.
The trailers are expected to arrive on October. 24, and will be order in the parking lot at the George Inness Annex.
Stairwells
The Oct. 15 agenda included bids and contracts for the staircase work, adding high to $590,633.50.
Architectural forceful Parette Somjen will provide architectural and engineering services for the stairwell form, at a cost not to transcend $100,000.
The dominion will take Fredon Welding and Iron Industrial plant to demolish the damaged section of steps, at a cost of $2,160. Mangiro Catching Co., Inc, will take off the concrete stair treads, at a cost of $7,120.50.
Both companies will also do destruction act on all four stairwell towers, with an expected cost of $10,280 for Fredon, and $72,000 for Mangiro.
Insurance
One of the remaining questions is whether the district's insurance newsboy testament reimburse the district for whatsoever or all of the expenses.
After the coming together, Johnson said the zone was still negotiating with the bearer for at least fond coverage. The indemnity carrier had pushed back on covering the damage, Johnson said, citing the building's maturat. Simply President Andrew Johnson said the district was aspirant to get some of the repairs covered, or at to the lowest degree the repairs on the damaged Park Street staircase.
Board President Laura Hertzog said on Oct. 3 that the BOE would meet with the Board of School Estimate if IT was resolute that the district needed more capital funding for the stairwell figure.
Parent reactions
Some of the parents in the audience thanked Lyndon Johnson and the board for the update happening the staircases. But there were some concerns about communications and other issues.
"I would ask that you have more communication with the students," aforesaid Lori Borgen, the parent of a student. She said her girl had reported that rumors were passing around among students at the school, including rumors of asbestos dust in the air, black mold in the hallways, and the school closing in November. "I know the emails fail tabu to parents, so I was wondering if you could netmail the students likewise."
In response, Johnson same she was in touch on with the members of the MHS educatee council, who in turn distributed the information over a chat room with other students. Even so, several parents in the audience were noticed shaking their heads as Johnson aforesaid this.
Other parents questioned how the cardinal-hr abbreviated shifts were passing to work.
"I'm going to be transparent, I haven't figured it out til now," Johnson aforementioned. She was working with the school faculty on how to arrange the schedules for those days.
Circuit card V.P. Joe Kavesh said that he was opposed to the idea of holding make-up classes on the weekends, since many families need that fourth dimension for religious observances as well as sentence to drop together. Additionally, he said, many families make travel plans during the holiday periods, so that needed to be taken into consideration.
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