![]() The school board voted to require mask-wearing for students and staff during the school day in a special September board meeting. Both noted that case numbers have been trending downward in the county and within the schools. David Hoffert and Chief Technology and Analytics Officer Kyle Carter gave an update on the school district’s COVID-19 statistics. The firm is working toward a March 2022 presentation for approval to move to the construction phase. Performance Services hopes to be done with the entire design and pricing process by February 2022. It’s a phased project and we’ll have to do it incrementally because we’re working around existing spaces.” “It will be deconstruction, creating pathways, removing materials and beginning foundations. “The work that we do in the summer will be mostly prepping to begin construction in courtyard areas,” Rolfson said. Preliminary cost estimates for the renovations are between $28.9 million and $30.2 million. Plans also include creating a large Project Lead The Way lab and moving the media center adjacent to the cafeteria. We really think that will be an asset for the building overall.” “That will really help facilitate movement through the school because right now, there’s an awful lot of traffic that has to wrap around the building. “(There will be) an element that will link the front door all the way through the center of the building to the gym,” said Rolfson. WCHS’s administrative offices would also be moved adjacent to the front door. Performance Services is currently planning on reorienting the high school’s main entryway within the half-circle on the east side of the building. ![]() The overall project goals at WCHS include: creating a distinct main entry revitalizing the media center establishing student common areas and STEM labs improving interior parts of the school to prevent congested intersections renovations of Warsaw Area Career Center’s second floor improving science labs expanding fine arts areas updating classrooms and corridors making mechanical and infrastructure improvements developing a new athletic department secure entry and expanding bathrooms and renovating gym locker rooms. The goal is for the construction to begin in summer 2022. Performance Services has had about 20 to 30 discussions thus far with WCS administration on the planning process. Jerry Rolfson, senior architect at Performance Services, Indianapolis, presented an update to the school board about the engineering firm’s plan for renovations at Warsaw Community High School. WARSAW - Warsaw Community Schools’ Board of Trustees discussed upcoming renovations at the high school, as well as recent COVID-19 statistics, during a regular meeting on Monday, Oct. Jerry Rolfson, senior architect at Performance Services, presented an update to the school board about renovations at Warsaw Community High School. ![]()
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