The

Fayette County Board of Education was updated on

about 30 ongoing school construction projects

Monday night during a sparsely attended regular

meeting.

Mike

Satterfield, projects director for the school

system, reported that site grading for the

Starr's Mill High School stadium is about 95

percent complete. He asked the board to approve a

change order, adding $30,000 to the overall cost

of the $2.1 million stadium, for irrigation and

sod. He explained that the job could not be done

any cheaper.

Although,

this was the first addition to the contract,

superintendent Dr. John DeCotis assured the board

that future deductions anticipated in the project

would balance it out. Timely installation of the

sod should provide a grassy soccer field for

spring, Satterfield noted.

The

concrete slab foundations have been poured for

the Flat Rock Middle School auditorium and the

steel frame structure is completed. Masonry work

has begun. At North Fayette Elementary, kitchen

demolition has begun in preparation for a new

kitchen facility.

Progress

on special projects include:

� Grading work complete at the

McIntosh High School fields with an irrigation

system and sod installed

� Fencing has been installed

and an infield has been dug at Starr's Mill High

School's softball field. Dug-outs are under

construction.

� Grading has been completed

at the Starr's Mill High School practice field

with installation of an irrigation system 95

percent complete. The field is being prepared for

sod.

� Rough grading and

installation of fencing has begun on the Starr's

Mill High School baseball field.

� The retainer wall has been

installed and ground leveled for landscaping at

the Rising Starr game field.

� Work is 75 percent complete

on reroofing of building A at the Lafayette

Educational Center.

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