Proposed renovations to the Lassiter High School theatre and classroom additions and renovations at Dickerson Middle School and Dodgen Middle School will be considered by the Cobb Board of Education Thursday.
Contracts to start all three projects are on the board’s agenda, first for discussion at a work session Thursday afternoon and then for approval Thursday night.
The work session begins at 2 p.m. and the voting session starts at 7 p.m. in the board room of the Cobb County School District central office, 514 Glover St., Marietta.
An executive session follows the work session, and the board will conduct a final public hearing on the 2022 millage rate and tax digest at the same venue at 6:30 p.m.
The meetings also will be live-streamed on the district’s BoxCast channel and on CobbEdTV, Comcast Channel 24.
The full agendas for the meetings can be found by clicking here.
The Cobb County District will ask the board to spend $365,334 to hire an architect for the Lassiter project.
That figure is around 5 percent of the full construction cost and the renovations would “expand, upgrade, and renovate the current theater at Lassiter,” according to a district spokeswoman.
The theatre facility is separate from the Lassiter Concert Hall.
The school board also will be asked to hire a construction manager for the Dickerson and Dodgen projects, which include classroom additions and renovations.
Those projects have been scheduled for completion by July 2023.
All three projects will be funded with revenues from the current Cobb Education SPLOST V sales tax collection.
The Cobb school district is proposing to keep the millage rate at its current 18.90 for property taxes.
But because of growth in the Cobb tax digest for 2022, the district must advertise a tax increase, since it is not rolling back the millage rate.
The Cobb school district is taking in $65 million more from local property taxes than in 2021, due mostly to rising assessment. The “roll back” rate would be 16.719 mills.
After the final public hearing at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, the school board is scheduled to vote on the millage rate at the voting session.
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