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STARPOINT: Capitol improvement project on time and within budget
PENDLETON — PENDLETON — Starpoint’s $15 million capital improvement project is on time and within budget, the district said Monday.
Some work remains to be done, but the project is about 65 percent complete, Richard Castner of LP Ciminelli reported to the Board of Education. Castner is the construction manager for the Starpoint project. He said the work at Fricano Primary School is nearly done.
“All work is about 99 percent complete,” he said.
That includes masonry repairs to the chimney flutes and cap, completion of a concrete apron at the Dumpster pad and installing asphalt binder material at the playground. What’s left is some exterior work, parking lot paving and a new access road that will be done in July. There is also some heating, ventilation and air conditioning work left to do in the building.
At Starpoint Intermediate, the light fixtures were installed in the cafeteria. Electrical work was done to install projector power devices in the school’s AA and B wings.
There is still some work to be done on the school’s stage area and some work on a renovation and conversion of vacant music classrooms to information technology classrooms.
Superintendent C. Douglas Whelan said there was also some asbestos abatement work to do in those rooms. Castner said the company was aiming to work on the abatement during Memorial Day weekend in May when the schools are out.
During the summer, the roofs of the middle school and high schools will be completed. A freight elevator will be installed at Starpoint Middle School.
In other board news, the members tabled a motion to allow Whelan to sign an agreement with Proformance Sports Training in Amherst. The agreement would allow Proformance to continue running an after-school program in Starpoint to teach all middle and high school students, as well as staff, the proper way to work out. The district signed a one-year deal with the firm last year.
The new contract would be an 80-day deal that would cost the district about $19,500. The board wanted to table the motion because of the lack of feedback on how successful the program was. There was positive response from a survey filled out by some coaches, but no feedback from students who participated. Two Starpoint seniors who were in the audience Monday did offer opinions about the program. Julia Simon and Andi Ridge spoke in the public forum of how the Proformance program helped them prepare for athletics, especially when recovering from injury. The instructor was very dedicated, they said.
“It teaches us skills on how to build endurance and strength,” Simon said.
Contact reporter Joe Olenick at 439-9222, ext. 6241.
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