Though there

aren't any students or teachers in the classrooms during the summer, there

will be a lot of activity in and around the local schools this summer.

According to

the Board of Education's 10-year plan, the summer is used as a time to

do general maintenance on the schools that require it. Schools like Fayetteville

Intermediate and Hood Avenue Primary will get new carpeting and some new

paint, while schools like J.C. Booth Middle School will get a new gymnasium

floor and bleachers. Several things on this year's list were postponed

until next year to free up funding for projects that are a priority.

One priority

that was added to the list at the meeting came from Assistant Superintendent

Fred Oliver who said that roofing on the technology building had to be

repaired. During a recent rain storm, computers had to be covered by cloths

to avoid being rained on. The project will cost $137,700 and will come

from the general funds.

The funding

for these projects either come from bond funds, which are typically used

to renovate buildings, or general funds. It was necessary for the School

Board to call a special session and vote on the completion of the projects

because some of the projects would take a number of weeks to complete

and need to begin as soon as possible.

The projects

to be completed this summer will include roofing at East Fayette Elementary

($471,352), carpeting and painting the entire building at Fayetteville

Intermediate ($98,445), carpeting and painting the entire building at

Hood Avenue Primary ($89,718) and painting the common area at Peachtree

City Elementary ($10,636). All of these tasks, totaling $670,351, will

be performed using bond money.

Tasks being

performed this summer using general funds include carpeting and painting

the entire building at Sandy Creek High School ($260,167), fixing the

roof over the technology building ($137,700), constructing visitor restrooms

and concessions at Starr's Mill ($150,000), replacing gym floor and bleachers

at J.C. Booth ($180,000), replacing the visitors bleachers and press box

at McIntosh ($300,000) and renovating existing visitor bleachers at Fayette

County High School ($125,000). The total for these projects is $1,152,867.

Many of the

projects need to be done this summer because they deal with safety. The

gym floor at Booth has holes in it and though they patch them up with

duct tape, the bleachers create new ones all the time, the board was told.

The visitors

bleachers at McIntosh were built as temporary bleachers and have been

renovated once before but are in need of being replaced, while the visitors

bleachers at Fayette County have no underpinning and things could fall

through, including small children, the board was told.

The 10-year

plan allots for work to be done on every school within the10-year period.

Every four years, the school's common area is painted and every eight

years the entire building is repainted and the floors are redone. Fayette

County High School was supposed to have some painting done there this

summer, but they are holding summer school.

Starr's Mill

was bumped up from next summer to take Fayette's place this summer to

have their common area painted, but the board postponed it along with

repainting the common areas of Peeples Elementary School and J. C. Booth

Middle School, saving $72,296 from the general funds.

There are other

projects that are likely to be done this summer as well, such as the replacing

of fire alarms and intercoms at several schools and their funding will

come from the maintenance and operations budget.