The Cobb Board of Education will be asked Thursday to approve contracts for renovations and to take preparatory steps for replacement projects at several elementary schools in East Cobb.
One agenda item is recommending a contract for $7.691 million for an HVAC replacement, roof replacement, flooring replacement and restroom modernization at Timber Ridge Elementary School.
Another item is recommending three contracts totaling more than $415,000 to conduct parcel surveys and soil testing needed for the design of annex replacement projects at Kincaid, Mt. Bethel, Murdock, Sope Creek and Tritt elementary schools.
Those items and others will be discussed at a board work sessions starting at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, and are listed as action items for the board voting meeting that begins at 7 p.m.
You can view the agendas for the public meetings by clicking here.
An executive session is scheduled in between the public meetings, which will take place in the board room of the Cobb County School District’s central office (514 Glover Street, Marietta).
The open meetings also will be live-streamed on district’s BoxCast channel and on CobbEdTV, Comcast Channel 24.
Thursday’s meetings also will the last for Post 5 board member David Banks, who is retiring after serving four teams as Republican from the East Cobb area.
He will be succeeded by Republican John Cristadoro, a first-time office-holder who will be sworn in in January.
The East Cobb renovation projects are being funded in the current Cobb Education-SPLOST VI collection period. Also on Thursday’s agenda are contracts for the purchases of school buses and Cobb school district police vehicles.
The district is recommending spending $4.287 million ($31.9 million in SPLOST VI funds) for 25 school buses.
Another contract for $379,925 would be used to buy seven 2025 Chevrolet Tahoe 4WD pursuit vehicles for the district’s police department.
School board members also will be asked to approve $100 million in short-term construction notes to continue SPLOST VI construction projects in 2025. Another vote in January will include specifics of a competitive bidding process for the sale of the notes, which are loans that must be paid back by the end of next year.
District staff also will present to the school board proposed changes in administrative policies over school admissions, including the school choice transfer program and other transfer options (pp. 63-104), non-traditional students and home study students.
Other proposed provisions address employee recruitment, leaves and absences and compensation guides and contracts.
The district also will present its 2025 legislative priorities, but did not provide details in the meeting agenda.
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