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JOHN ROBINSON/GAZETTE
The Emporia Public Schools Board of Education met
Wednesday for a special study session. The board
prioritized capital expenditure projects for the 20162017 school year.
By John Robinson
[email protected]
The USD 253 Emporia
Public Schools Board of
Education prioritized the
necessities of the district
during a Wednesday study
session to decide how to
pursue future capital expenditure projects.
A c c o rd i n g t o Ro b
Scheib, assistant superintendent of business, the
meeting was
the culmination of
events that
began when
the Financial Review Committee
met with the Building Site
Councils to determine the
needs for each building in
the district.
“We’ve gone through
budgets with the board for
long-range capital expenditures,” Scheib said. “The
things that they highlighted are the things we will
move forward on.”
Fo r t h e 2 0 1 6 - 2 0 1 7
school year, the board decided to prioritize the following rotation items: A
$50,000 donation to Welch
Stadium at Emporia State,
$300,000 to update the
buses and support vehicles,
$10,000 flat panel monitors to replace specified
Smart Boards at Emporia
High School, $223,771 on
a three-year lease for student laptops, $447,707 for
a Qualified Zone Academy
Bond (QZAB) bonding for
energy conservation projects and $77,891 for a QZAB bonding coupon.
The board also agreed
to prioritize the following projects: $14,000 for
a mounted projector and
drop-down screen in the
EHS auditorium, $35,000
to increase the number of
special education classrooms and improve their
proximity to family and
consumer science and
technology classrooms,
$20,000 to renovate the
restrooms at William Allen
White Elementary and Walnut Elementary, $318,800
for a roof replacement at
Logan Avenue Elementary.
The total cost of the
projects are estimated at
$1.497 million, just under
the $1.5
million of
ava i l a b l e
revenue
for 20162017.
“These (projects) aren’t
luxuries,”