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Posted on Wed, Aug 19, 2009 : 8:06 p.m.

Ann Arbor schools construction work to be done in time for opening day

By David Jesse

Construction work at Ann Arbor schools should be wrapped up by the time students come back to school in early September, district officials told the school board Wednesday night.

Work at Burns Park, Carpenter, Eberwhite, Bach, King, Logan and Northside elementary schools will be wrapped up in time for teachers to get back in classrooms next week, Randy Trent, the district’s executive director of physical properties, said.

The work on those schools included items such as new flooring, heating systems work, new cabinets and renovations to lobbies.

In addition, the district did Americans with Disability Act work on 22 schools this summer. That largely dealt with improving access to schools and concrete work, Trent said. Sixteen of those projects are complete, with the others scheduled to be done by the start of school Sept. 8.

Work is also wrapping up at Huron High School, Trent said.

The projects are being funded by a bond passed by voters in 2004 that renovated all the districts schools and built Skyline High School.

The board has awarded 97.7 percent of all the work to be done in the project, Trent said.

Still awaiting bids to be awarded are projects at Pioneer High School, the purchase of some buses and about $1.5 million left for an early childhood classroom addition if the district decides it needs the space.

Comments

m macke

Wed, Aug 19, 2009 : 9:30 p.m.

What about the work at Pioneer? How is that going?