Lewisville ISD renovates two middle schools assigned to the bond package 2023.
The projects with a total of almost 44 million US dollars are carried out in Creek Valley and Durham Middle School. The guaranteed maximum prices for each were approved at the board meeting of February 10th.
The details
Both Creek Valley and Durham Middle Schools receive new furniture, technological updates for school and personnel devices as well as network infrastructure, safety updates, including weapon scanners and new locking and alarm systems as well as the maintenance and repair of buses, transport centers and art instruments for visual arts according to district documents.
The board approved a guaranteed maximum price for Creek Valley for 21.2 million US dollars and the Durham Middle School for USD 22.7 million.
Remarkable
This series of bond projects originally comprised 23.1 million US dollars of repairs to the Downing Middle School, but the trustees unanimously voted to delay the work on this campus until after the civil servants have completed the 89th legislative session. can determine. Downing Middle was on the first locking list during the discussion about Campus pensioning last year. The board approved the delay on the condition that civil servants carry out mandatory security work, e.g. B. replacing fire alarm systems.
“This board does not say in one way or another what the future of the downing is,” said trustee Staci Barker. “I don't want it to look like we have already decided on a campus because we didn't do it.”
The project delay also set the plans to add solar collectors for downing middle school, which could have occurred in addition to the roof replacement during renovation work. The panels were expected to save the district of up to $ 50,000 a year back to energy savings, according to previous reporting on the community.
Look ahead
Officials said the work in the Creek Valley and Durham will start this summer and will be estimated in the summer of 2026.
District officers plan to carry out maximum price proposals for around 12 further projects for the maintenance and repair of bonds 2023 in March. The projects include work at the following locations:
- Old Siedler primary school
- Lamar Middle School
- The High School colony
- Marcus High School
- Hebron High School
- Flower hill high school
- Castle Hills primary school
- Central elementary school
- Liberty primary school