The first step toward building a new Eastvalley Elementary School is on the horizon.
The Cobb Board of Education on Thursday will be asked to approve a contract for architectural design for a replacement school on the former campus of East Cobb Middle School on Holt Road.
The Cobb County School District is recommending the board approve a $1.58 million contract to the architectural firm of Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart & Associates, Inc. of Atlanta.
The contract will be discussed at a board work session at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, and during the board’s voting session at 7 p.m.
Both meetings will take place at the Cobb County School District central office, 514 Glover 9St., in Marietta. An executive session will take place in between.
A replacement for the current Eastvalley facility on Lower Roswell Road is included in the current Cobb Education SPLOST V collection period.
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Funding for the design work, reconstruction (estimated at around $31 million) and demolition of the former East Cobb MS buildings are earmarked in SPLOST V, which is being collected through 2023.
The Eastvalley rebuild is one of three for elementary schools in the current SPLOST. Construction for a new Harmony Leland ES in Mableton got underway last year, and plans also call for a new King Springs ES in Smyrna.
After the architectural design work for Eastvalley is complete, the board would then be asked to approve a separate construction contract.
Eastvalley currently enrolls around 700 students, around twice its stated capacity. The school has 13 trailers, many of them aging, which house about one-third of the student body.
In September, parents of Eastvalley students complained to the board about the condition of the trailers and demanded to know a timetable for the rebuild.
Also on Tuesday’s agenda is a contract for $303,000 for kitchen HVAC improvements at Shallowford Falls Elementary School.
Board recognitions at the Thursday evening meeting will honor Cayce Pope of J.J. Daniell Middle School, the district’s 2020 Middle School Counselor of the Year, and Patty DaSilva of Pope High School, the district’s High School Counselor of the Year.
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