Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Items include whiteboards, lifting platforms, wrestling mats
WORLAND – A grand total of $777,200 of capital projects district-wide was approved by the Washakie County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees on Monday night for the 2017 fiscal year.
The money, provided by the general and major maintenance fund, will give Washakie County District No. 1 schools their top requested items like new whiteboards for East Side Elementary, varsity double rack lifting platform for the high school weight room, wrestling mats and a milk cooler for the middle school and replacement restroom privacy panels for the stalls at West Side Elementary.
The only school not to immediately receive their No. 1 request was South Sid Elementary for their request of a new communication security system.
Washakie County Business Manager Jack Stott previously said that request will be covered under another section with upcoming federal grant money and the new communication security system will be district-wide, rather than solely at South Side Elementary.
The top three requested items at East Side Elementary are the white boards in eight rooms for $12,500 from the general fund, a secretary chair for $500 from the general fund and a cork board installation for one room for $750 with money from the general fund.
Other requests included kitchen related items for East Side and brought the school’s total capital project requests to $25,650 for the 2017 fiscal year.
The top three requested items for the high school are a varsity double rack with an oak platform for $5,000 from the general fund, a rubber coated grip plate set for $625 from the general maintenance fund and two shop tables for $3,000 from the general fund.
In addition, the high school also received approval for a boiler, a commercial dryer, main sewer line replacement amongst other things for a grand total of $581,635 from the general and major maintenance fund.
The middle school’s top requested items were wrestling mats for $17,300, milk cooler for $3,958, 80 replacement classroom chairs for $4,000 and a dishwasher for $15,384 for a total of $40,641. All capital project requests will be funded by the general fund.
At the board meeting, Worland Middle School Principal Ryan Clark thanked the board and jokingly warned them about infections from the mats before inviting them to take a look at the current mats.
Top requested items approved for South Side Elementary were 18 16-inch stack chairs for $678 from the general fund, sidewalk repair in the playground form the major maintenance fund for $8,000, safe hook coat hooks from the general fund for $3,300 and library shelving from the general fund for $19,850 for a total amount of $31,828.
West Side Elementary School’s top requested items that were approved included replacing restroom privacy panels for the stalls, replacing book shelves in the media center and replacing chairs in the old media lab. West Side total amount of approved capital projects requests was $24,946 all from the general fund.