Construction advancing at Monett schools – Monett Times

Renovations are continuing at a steady pace on the field house at Burl Fowler Stadium. Jacob Webster, with Webster Flooring, checked the tile installation on the visiting teams locker room. The clips between tiles help to level the ceramic tiles for an even surface. The visitors locker room will have two stalls, two urinals, a Bradley hand washing station, all handicapped accessible, a regular shower and handicapped shower. Murray Bishoff/times-news@monett-times.com

Gyms near completion, field house ahead of schedule

Progress is continuing steadily on $2.1 million in building projects for the Monett school district over the summer.

Superintendent Brad Hanson and school board members toured the E.E. Camp gymnasium recently. Board members were especially struck by the new LED lights in the gym, brightening the facility much more than in the past. The new heating and air conditioning system in the gym as been finished. Floor work is underway this week. Efforts continue on renovating the locker rooms.

Jason Luebbert with Charles Luebbert Hardwood Floors of Jefferson City continued on the first sanding sweep of the E.E. Camp gymnasium floor on Tuesday morning, part of summer improvement projects at the school district. Luebbert planned to make three more passes over the floor sanding before buffing, waxing, adding two coats of seal then painting. He said repeated annual coats of floor finish had significantly darkened the floor. When finished, the color would be much lighter, like new, and quite visible in the brighter LED lights installed over the summer. Murray Bishoff/times-news@monett-times.com

The new gym floor has been installed at Central Park Elementary, which Hanson called beautiful. Work renovating the locker rooms is nearly completion.

Work is ahead of scheduled on the field house at Burl Fowler Stadium. Hanson hoped crews would complete work in the next three weeks, prior to the beginning of football practice.

APAC, which received the contract for resurfacing the parking lot at Burl Fowler Stadium, plans to begin dirt work on July 10. Hanson hoped for drier weather through mid and late July that would help the contractor finish.

At the high school, Hanson observed cooler weather during graduation on May 19 helped the replaced air conditioning system to handle the capacity crowd after months of minimal functioning on a cobbled together substitute.

The air conditioning system at the high school is now working well, he said. Im very pleased. I think the efficiency and ability to handle the load for the gym and commons will be noticeable.

Gold Mechanical, which has been on site since April, remains on the job, working on one of the dampers in the system. Crews moved on to tackle air conditioning on the field house, a new addition, and the E.E. Camp gym, during their stay.

Replacing the air conditioners over the stage at the high school, serving the gym and the commons, ended up costing around $300,000. Under the long-range facilities plan, the school district planned to spend $100,000 a year replacing heating and cooling systems that are now more than 20 years old.

The emergency work took the place of this summers planned $100,000 replacement of 10 more units.

We dont have any immediate needs there, Hanson said. Weve got funds built into the budget as a contingency just in case, so we can replace a unit if we need to. Next summer we will replace another 10 units. I anticipate in will take us another two or three years before we have all the units at the high school replaced.

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