School Board Approves $1.5 Million for Temporary Classrooms

"Modular Wings" to replace "T-Buildings"

    Twenty-six pre-K through second grade classes are currently taught in temporary classrooms at Bellingrath and Tanglewood.  At Monday’s meeting the School Board approved a plan to spend approximately $1.5 million to replace the older T-buildings with temporary installations called modular wings.
    Each structure contains up to ten classrooms and two restrooms.  The School Board’s plan is to put out public bids for four of these wings, including a total of thirty-four classrooms.  Two of the wings would be placed at Bellingrath and two at Tanglewood.
    Superintendent Faulk explained that the School System currently spends $152,000 annually for T-buildings containing twenty-six classrooms, and that the total cost of the wings, installed, would be about $1.5 million.  The modular wings are expected to last eight to ten years.
    The wheels of the modular wings will rest on concrete pads, and the units will be anchored down and skirted.  The addition of these temporary classrooms will provide classroom space for an additional 190 students.  The bid specifications require that the modular wings be in “like new” condition, and less than three years old.