Wood County BOE receives construction update – Marietta Times

PARKERSBURG Crews completed more than $3 million in roof replacements this summer at five Wood County schools, with only a handful of finishing steps left to be done on one of those projects.

Assistant Superintendent Mike Fling gave an update Tuesday to the Wood County Board of Education on projects ranging from laying new carpet to major construction, such as the roof replacements.

I dont think people can realize how much roofing was completed this summer, he said.

The roof replacements are part of the districts $41 million facilities bond call which was approved by voters in November. Three companies put down more than 300,000 square feet of new roofing at five schools over a period of 10 weeks, Fling said. As of Tuesday, only one of those projects, Franklin Elementary School, was not yet completed.

They are doing finishing work at this point, he said.

The cost of the roofing projects was a little more than $3 million, with about $65,000 in additional cost due to change orders, which Fling said officials carefully monitored. Fling said that represents a change of only 2 percent in the budget for the five roofing projects.

Those projects are the first of about $17 million in roof replacements which will be completed over the next several years.

What is exciting about Michaels report is that the taxpayers of Wood County are getting their facilities protected, said Superintendent John Flint. We were getting to the point where the investment was overwhelming, when youre patching roofs to $1 million a year. Now were upgrading, were moving forward. Thats exciting for the Wood County taxpayer.

Board President Lawrence Hasbargen said the secondary effect is freeing up money which would have been used for repairs.

When youre not spending money for repairing and patching roofs, we can do several other things throughout our facilities that have been requested by our schools year after year, he said. Over time, you can really keep it up, and do a better job of it.

A handful of larger projects, such as installation of a new large-volume grease trap at Hamilton Middle School, are being delayed until summer 2018 due to timing issues. Fling said he would be bringing more information on multi-year projects, such as structural repairs at the rear of Blennerhassett Elementary and Middle schools, to the board at a future meeting.

In other business, the board delayed approving a list of supplemental and extra-duty pay scales until its next meeting. Board member Jim Asbury, who attended Tuesdays meeting via conference call, requested the delay because he did not have the list and asked for time to review the numbers.

The board met in executive session to discuss the superintendents performance and contract, but took no action. The session was part of the annual evaluation and goal-setting process for the superintendent.

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