It was a busy facilities night for the Council Rock School Board as it awarded a total of $6.12 million in contracts for summer projects and other improvements on April 20.
On the summer projects, the board unanimously voted to award contracts of $364,402 to Quinn Construction for repairs and coating at Council Rock High School North’s Walt Snyder Stadium; $1.82 million to B. Blair for replacement of a tennis and basketball court at Council Rock High School South; $1.05 million to Barker & Barker Paving for paving repairs and concrete sidewalk replacement at CR South; and $2.69 million to TE Construction for replacement of the auditorium lighting system and related work at CR South.
Also awarded were professional services contracts of $10,985 to Earth Engineering for a clean fill assessment related to the CR South basketball and tennis court replacement, and $193,870 to Gilmore & Associates to design a district-wide playground renovation project for seven of Council Rock’s 10 elementary schools.
At a previous meeting, district Supervisor of Facilities/Physical Plant Jessica Binda-Rischow laid out a plan to extensively renovate the playgrounds at Holland, Goodnoe, Newtown, Maureen Welch, Churchville, Rolling Hills and Wrightstown elementary schools over the next two years at an estimated total cost of $2 million. The playgrounds at the district’s other three elementary schools, Hillcrest, Sol Feinstone and Richboro, have already been or will be renovated as part of larger projects at those schools.
In other news from the meeting, the board voted to accept a $5,000 donation from the Council Rock Education Foundation to help fund the district’s annual STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) Night, to be held this year on May 25.
School board member Ed Tate, liaison to CREF, announced that the foundation will be awarding a total of $40,000 in grants a little later this year to fund innovative educational programs and/or equipment at various Council Rock schools not possible under the regular district budget. Tate added that CREF fundraising is ramping up again after an extended time of being slowed by the coronavirus pandemic.
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