The first step toward the rebuild of the main Sprayberry High School classroom facilities comes before the Cobb Board of Education Thursday.
It’s a proposal to hire an architect to design the reconstruction, which includes other upgrades and renovations.
The Cobb County School District is recommending that a $3.464 million contract be awarded to CGLS Architects Inc. of Atlanta.
According to an agenda item, that amount is 5 percent of the estimated cost of the rebuild, which was earmarked as a major project on the Cobb Ed-SPLOST VI list.
The extension of the sales tax for school facilities and maintenance projects was approved by Cobb voters last November, and collections begin in January 2024.
The rebuild is part of a larger renovation project underway at Sprayberry that currently includes the construction of a new main gymnasium and renovations to the school’s CTAE (Career, Technology and Agricultural Education) facility.
That roughly $20 million project is being funded with SPLOST V revenues and is expected to be completed in 2023.
The school board will be presented with the rebuild architectural proposal at a work session that begins at 2 p.m. Tuesday. There also is a board business meeting where it is expected to be voted on starting at 7 p.m.
The meetings will take place the board room of the Cobb County School District central office (514 Glover St., Marietta).
Agendas for the board work session and business meeting can be found here. The meetings also will be live-streamed on the district’s BoxCast channel and on CobbEdTV, Comcast Channel 24.
The board also will have an executive session between the meetings.
At 6:30 p.m., the board also will conduct a public hearing on the proposed fiscal year 2023 budget. The board will be presented with the proposal at the work session, and the hearing also will be livestreamed.
Also on the school board’s agenda for Thursday is a request for formalized the phase-out of the current campus of Eastvalley Elementary.
A new facility is being built on the former campus of East Cobb Middle School on Holt Road, and the state requires old campuses to be phased out.
At the 7 p.m. meeting on Thursday, the board will recognize student-athletes who recently won Georgia state championships, including David Panone and May Prado, Lassiter wrestlers; Joey Robinson, a Pope wrestler; and Zyan Hall, a Wheeler wrestler.
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