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September 18, 2012

Board accepts bid for Junior High

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PRYOR — The Pryor Board of Education accepted bids for the Pryor Junior High bond project at a meeting Monday.

The board accepted the lowest base bid from Vagas Construction and all six alternates totalling $5,187,272.

Pryor Superintendent Don Raleigh said the whole junior high will have work done. He said they will be building a new commons area, which will include a kitchen for the junior high to eliminate the need to bus food in from the high school. He said the existing commons will be remodeled and include additional classrooms as well as two upstairs rooms and an area downstairs in the commons to meet Americans with Disabilities Act compliance. These areas will be torn out and reconstructed.

Raleigh said the Family and Consumer Sciences classroom, the band room and the choir rooms will all be remodeled. He said those rooms have been in use since the late 1950s.

He said the media center will be updated and electrical wiring will be replaced throughout the building. The building will also receive new tile, carpets and lighting.

Raleigh said the outside structures will be recovered to more closely resemble other schools in the district. He said the buildings will resemble the Burdick Center and the new structures at Roosevelt Elementary School.

Raleigh said the junior high will have a new sprinkler system put into place.

“The construction will be a challenge with school in session,” Raleigh said. He said much of the work will take place at night, over breaks and during the summer. He said the work should begin in the next couple of weeks.

The board accepted a bid from Digi Systems to install new and upgrade the existing security camera system at the junior high.

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