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Board to discuss public hearing date for elevator project
By Jennifer Nichols
NT Staff Writer
ATLANTIC - The Atlantic School Board will discuss a public hearing date for elevator project, in which elevators will be built at Schuler Elementary and the Atlantic Middle School, during its meeting tonight. The meeting will start at 7:30 p.m., and be held at the high school media center. School officials are working on the project to become ADA compliant in those buildings.
Design Alliance, Inc. Architect Jerry Purdy, who is working with school officials on the project, had previously met with members of the school’s administrative team about the project, showing four possible elevator configurations, two in which the elevator is constructed on the outside of the middle school and two constructed inside the middle school.
Purdy said the meetings led to the discovery that the elevator project in the middle school would not completely make Schuler Elementary handicap accessible. Schuler Elementary is accessible if a student can use the skywalk between the elementary and the middle school or by going outside of the building to get to the place needed from there. Board members agreed both Schuler Elementary and the Atlantic Middle School need to be accessible, adding “they weren’t thrilled” about someone having to go outside to get to their destination.
Later Purdy e-mailed school officials approximate costs for the project, including two figures for the middle school elevator, depending on whether or not the board decides to get with an interior or exterior elevator. The cost of building an indoor elevator in the middle school would be $221,320, and the cost of building an exterior elevator would be $281,600. The cost for building an elevator at Schuler would be $196,812.
Last month, Purdy said he had “95 percent” of the specifications done for the elevators, including an interior one for the middle school, and said they should be completed within two weeks, and at that time, board members can discuss a public hearing and a date to receive bids. Board members decided to go ahead and approve the design Purdy showed them with further details coming within two weeks. He also estimated the project would take approximately 120 days.
Design Alliance, Inc. Architect Jerry Purdy, who is working with school officials on the project, had previously met with members of the school’s administrative team about the project, showing four possible elevator configurations, two in which the elevator is constructed on the outside of the middle school and two constructed inside the middle school.
Purdy said the meetings led to the discovery that the elevator project in the middle school would not completely make Schuler Elementary handicap accessible. Schuler Elementary is accessible if a student can use the skywalk between the elementary and the middle school or by going outside of the building to get to the place needed from there. Board members agreed both Schuler Elementary and the Atlantic Middle School need to be accessible, adding “they weren’t thrilled” about someone having to go outside to get to their destination.
Later Purdy e-mailed school officials approximate costs for the project, including two figures for the middle school elevator, depending on whether or not the board decides to get with an interior or exterior elevator. The cost of building an indoor elevator in the middle school would be $221,320, and the cost of building an exterior elevator would be $281,600. The cost for building an elevator at Schuler would be $196,812.
Last month, Purdy said he had “95 percent” of the specifications done for the elevators, including an interior one for the middle school, and said they should be completed within two weeks, and at that time, board members can discuss a public hearing and a date to receive bids. Board members decided to go ahead and approve the design Purdy showed them with further details coming within two weeks. He also estimated the project would take approximately 120 days.
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