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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock Newi Staff Writer
In a report to the school board last week, supervisor chairman E. P. Luke recommended buying trailers to solve the classroom space needs at Rappahannock County High School.
By opting for modular units over “brick and mortar” . construction, Luke said, the cost of a capital outlay program can be made “politically acceptable.”
He estimated price of temporary classrooms at $13,000 to $14,000 apiece with science lab units at $20,325. Improvements to the support facilities, including cafeteria, library, restrooms and sewage disposal system and “buttoning up” the building to make it more energy efficient will run about $329,004, according to Luke.
“That puts things down within the talking range” so an expansion program could begin immediately “within the next school year,” Luke said.
The supervisor chairman, also chairman of the joint supervisor-school board capital outlay committee, presented two alternatives.
The first called for 14,188 square feet of new space in seven classrooms plus expansion of support facilities including additions to library and cafeteria, two restrooms for handicapped and two for regular students, a clinic, teacher workroom, guidance counselor’s office and locker room. Also figuring in expense of energy conservation measures and upgrading the sewer system, the price on the first alternative is $1.25 million, Luke reported.
Politically Acceptable
According to Luke, a capital improvements program must satisfy three criteria: it must meet mandates set by the state, it must be affordable and it must be politically acceptable. “TTie last two are probably more important than the first,” he added. The $1.25 million proposal for an expansion with seven permanent classrooms meets immediate needs "in areas where the state department of education has said we’ve got to provide sonte instruction,” said Luke. Classrooms called for in this plan are three science rooms with laboratory facilities, two business rooms, art room and music room. “It may be affordable but it is sure not politically acceptable,” he maintained.
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