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Waynesburg Central renovations nearly complete
The $22.8-million project began nearly two years ago. Many of the most significant improvements - to a new science wing, music suite, auditorium and gymnasium - have been finished for some time.
The major undertaking now is the wood shop and vocational-agriculture classroom and that improvement is about 85 percent complete, according to Walter Stout, special consultant for the renovation. Modifications still need to be made to welding booths in the classroom, but the instructors are using other areas of the shop while that work continues.
Contractors most recently finished work in the locker rooms, nurse's room and swimming pool.
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Two projects, one to repair a leak to the pool deck and another to install cabinets in the teachers' lounge, will be tackled when the building is mostly empty over Thanksgiving break.
Stout said students and teachers seem to be pleased with the improvements made so far.
"If you haven't been there, you need to see it, because it's something to be proud of," he said that the school board meeting Tuesday.
In another matter, parents of a private school student asked the district to provide transportation to Greene County Career and Technology Center, but the board denied the request.
The student attends Open Door Christian School in Lippencott and wants to participate in the technology center's child-care program, according to her mother, Jennifer Crislip of Mt. Morris. A teacher currently transports the girl and another student from Central Greene to the technology center in Waynesburg. Two other students from Southeastern Greene School District provide their own transportation.
"It's a very good opportunity for her and I don't want her to miss out on that because we choose to send her to private school," Crislip said.
Board President Pete Rameas later told Crislip that the district could not provide transportation. While state law requires public schools to bus private schoolchildren from their home to school and back, it does not include transportation provisions to other schools.
Dr. Jerome Bartley, district superintendent, explained that the district does not transport its own students to the technology center - the high school is within walking distance of the center - so Central Greene cannot provide special transportation for private school students.
The board agreed to spend up to $9,800 of a state grant on window repairs to Margaret Bell Miller Middle School. Up to 35 windows will be recaulked and low-bidder Mariani and Richards of Pittsburgh will do the work for $280 a window. The grant money will come from the state Department of Community and Economic Development.
