The Cobb Board of Education will be asked Thursday to spend $218,892 to build a new playground at East Side Elementary School.
That’s one of the action items on the board’s agenda that will be discussed at an afternoon work session and considered during an evening business meeting.
The board will hold a work session Thursday at 3 p.m., followed by a voting session Thursday at 7 p.m.
All meetings take place in the board room of the Cobb County School District Central Office, at 514 Glover St. in Marietta. An executive session will follow the work session.
The public meetings will be streamed live and you can watch on Comcast Cable or on a livestream on the district’s Boxcast Channel.
You can find agendas for both public meetings by clicking here.
The East Side playground has been in use since the replacement school opened on Roswell Road at Indian Hills Parkway in 2011.
According to the East Side agenda item, most of the funding for the new playground—$215,000—has been raised privately by the school’s foundation. The remaining $3,892 would come from East Side’s district-budgeted after-school program account.
The recommended vendor is Playworld Preferred Systems, which the Cobb County School District said in the agenda item is “the designated standard for the District’s playscapes.”
At the work session Thursday, the board will hear an independent audit of district finances and will be presented with a request to accept bids for an issuer of $100 million in short-term construction notes.
The board in recent years has annually borrowed Cobb Education Special-Purpose Local-Option Sales Tax VI (SPLOST) funds in advance to begin construction and maintenance projects at the beginning of the calendar year, then repaying them by the the end of the year.
This is done, according to an agenda item, due to rising construction cost and that bidding on projects earlier enables the district to projects to be bid earlier and “[capture] savings in the current construction market.”
A recommended bidder will be brought back to the board in a separate vote.
At the Thursday evening meeting, two Pope High School girls sports state championship teams will be recognized—cross country and flag football—along with Pope’Aislynn Dunn, the Georgia High School Association Class 5A girls individual cross country champion.
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