FAYETTEVILLE — The floors are waxed and furniture is being moved into the new classroom building on the high school campus.
The 110,000-square-foot building with 50 classrooms is expected to be finished in time for the first day of school Aug. 19.
Portions of the three-story building have been turned over to the school district by Nabholz Construction Services, said Phil Jones, project executive.
By The Numbers
High School Financing
First Phase — District budget cuts are paying for $45 million in bonds to finance the first phase.
Second Phase — A $50 million financing package was approved in 2010 with a 2.75-mill property tax increase to complete phase two.
Source: Staff Report
“We are where we want to be at this stage of the project,” Jones said. “We’re still on track.”
Some teachers can begin moving into the building and setting up classrooms in two weeks.
Most of the first floor and part of the second have been waxed and are ready for furniture, said David Tate, the district’s director of school plant services.
New carpet was installed in a 176-seat lecture room that was vandalized several weeks ago when a glue-like substance was spread on the carpet. No one has been arrested in connection with the incident.
Jones said the construction team told city departments the time for inspections is near. Planning, engineering and the fire marshal have to sign off on the project before temporary and permanent certificates of occupancy can be issued. The certificates are required for the school to open.
Principal Steve Jacoby said the agricultural program at the former West Campus Technical Center on Old Farmington Road probably won’t move into the new building until December after equipment is installed.
The classroom building represents about 30 to 35 percent of the second phase of the 60-year-old high school campus renovation, Jones said.
Work has begun on renovating the old high school. The final project in the second phase is an addition at the east end of the building. It is expected to be complete by August 2015 when ninth-graders move to the campus.
The first phase was completed a year ago. It features an auditorium, lunchroom, gymnasium, band, orchestra and choir rooms.