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McDaniel added that this year letters sent home to parents will give a better idea, using test scores and delineating areas of strength and weaknesses, of why their child has been recommended for the Title I program.
Modular Units
The board voted unanimously to accept the low bid from Nationwide of Martinsville for purchase of three modular units for the high school. The trailers will cost $11,629.91 each, with air conditioning and commercial grade carpet $1,142 extra. Total for the three units will be $38,315.73, not including site preparation, electrical work, ramps and guttering.
The board agreed to go with ramps alone instead of both ramps and steps in providing access to the trailers.
“How temporary do you anticipate these to be?’* asked Eastham, in a discussion on whether to construct ramps of wood or concrete.
The trailers “are intended to carry us through the transitional stage until the expansion program at the high school is determined,” Bloomer replied.
(A proposal for a $750,000 expansion at the high school presented by the School Board’s Capital Outlay Study Committee was endorsed in April by the School Board in a split vote.
(Forwarded to the Rappahannock Supervisors for funding, the expansion proposal was rejected on the grounds that it didn’t provide a detailed cost analysis or alternatives.
(Subsequently, at the suggestion of the Supervisors, School Board Chairman Beverly Massie and board member Alan Stokes were appointed to work with Supervisor Chairman E. P. Luke, another Supervisor and County Engineer Fanning Baumgardner on capital outlay plans for the high school.
(The committee’s first meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, July 31, at 8 p.m. in the elementary school.)
Bloomer added that the trailers would provide additional space at the high school until building there is completed and then the units will be moved to the elementary school to relieve overcrowding. “But they might be at the high school for quite a while?” Eastham asked. “Well, as one individual in the State Department said, ‘There’s nothing as permanent as a temporary structure,’" Bloomer said.
He recommended constructing the ramps of wood, the cheaper material. “If we move with deliberate speed on the building program, wood will last that long,” he said. “Wood’s a hazard,’’ countered board member
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