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Superintendent Paul Croghan prescribed a plan at last Thursday night’s Nodaway Valley school board meeting that will replace the roof of the high school’s gym after it was ripped off in heavy thunderstorm winds that crashed into Greenfield in the early morning hours of Tuesday, Aug. 20.
Access to the gym after the roof had to be tarped by school staff that day has been heavily limited, meaning practices and contests in the facility can’t go on as planned.
The district’s three other gyms have been used increasingly for high school activities while a plan has been devised to fix the high school gym’s roof. For example, high school volleyball matches have been hosted at the middle school with some middle school games being moved to the elementary school or auxiliary gym at the high school.
The school board entered into a contract witih KPE Consulting Engineers, costing them $14,500, and KPE will oversee the gym roof replacement, which Croghan said could be completed as early as mid-October.
Croghan met recently with insurance adjusters. Insurance covered $98,750 toward the roof replacement, but Croghan stated that the overall damage was closer to $114,000 in all. A defect in the existing roof on two sides where the roof wasn’t properly connected to the brick will also be corrected at an added cost of approximately $3,500.
“I told [the contractors] that his supervisors are nipping at him to get this done and my community’s nipping at me to get this done,” Croghan told the board. “We want it done but we want it done well.”
On a related note, Croghan met with Jerry Purdy recently, architect with Design Alliance, who earlier this summer shared with the school board a facilities study he and his staff prepared for the district, and Croghan asked Purdy’s team to re-evaluate many of the mechanical systems in NV’s schools to make sure they’re efficient and the roofs, making sure they’re all tight.
In other business:
• The school board heard from Matt Gillaspie with Piper Jaffray, who presented information to the board about the district’s financial standing and future borrowing capabilities.
• High school principal Lanny Kliefoth presented on the Iowa Post Secondary Readiness reports. The reports show where NV students stand in attending college compared to Green Hills AEA and other Iowa students.
• Elementary Principal Connie Lundy talked about a $25,000 grant the district picked up from the Wellmark Foundation that will help pay for the second phase of the elementary playground project. They are working on resources that can help them raise the matching funds they need.
• The school board approved a reuest to teh School Budget Review Committee for Modified Supplemental Amount and Supplemental Aid for the 2018-19 Special Eudcation Project deficit of $198,880.02.
• Carol Baudler resigned as high school head softball coach and Justi Christensen resigned as varsity cheerleading coach. Jake Baudler was hired as a middle school para; Hannah Antisdel was hired as a cook, Terri Raasch as a cook and Bailey Roland as a high schol para.