Culver Community Middle/High School’s new secure entrance should be complete by the end of the month. Superintendent Karen Shuman gave the school board an update on the project Monday.
“As you can see, there’s doors with glass on the outside,” she said. “The building is secure. We are waiting for more glass to be delivered, to finish the front facade. The anterior lobby has been created and picking out the matching paint today, as far as they were mudding in the drywall to get ready to paint the lobby and paint the new restroom inside the nurse’s station that was created in an interior classroom in there.”
As part of the work, the school’s main office is being relocated to the new entrance, which is where the library used to be. “In the end, there’ll be a new office created for [Principal] Brett [Berndt] kind of at the helm of the high school area,” Shuman explained. “There’ll be the new nurse’s station created that has two independent resting areas in those and a new restroom, and then opening up that whole library into a major lobby/meeting area and professional development area for teachers.”
Meanwhile, Shuman says work has begin on the restrooms across from the high school gym. “Today, they removed all the fixtures,” she told board members. “We are asking by mid-October, which is when we have volleyball regionals, for those restrooms to be done.”
The bulk of the funding for the renovations is coming from the proceeds of a bond refinancing a few years ago.
