By JESSICA BRICKER
The Bluffton-Harrison Metropolitan School District board members are starting to see the proposed scope of an upcoming middle school improvement project come together.
Monday night, Superintendent Brad Yates presented to the board members a list of several items as part of the latest design plans. Currently, the project includes:
• Updating the seventh- and eighth-grade science classrooms.
• Adding a restroom and “converting the wash basin area into a common space to allow for improved supervision” for the fifth-, sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade restrooms.
• Modifying the office space, including ADA compliant restrooms in the nurse’s office.
• Redesigning the special education area, in part to create “full facilities for intense intervention programming.”
• Replacing all lockers throughout the building.
• Replacing the floor of the upstairs gym and add two basketball goals. Yates said currently the gym schedule is limited by the gym space so that four practices are set back-to-back, leading to some middle school athletes getting out of practice at 9 or 9:30 p.m.
• Addressing issues with the pool.
Also on Monday the board members accepted — with much gratitude — the retirements of two personnel.
Linda Sturgeon will retire effective May 26. She has taught at the district for 32 years, mostly third grade.
Amy Dunwiddie has served as the corporation’s secretary for 27 years. She will retire effective July 1.
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