The original Walton High School building stands empty, with a new classroom facility having just opened.
Tearing down the old building, which opened in 1975, is needed to complete the Walton rebuilding project, making room for a new gymnasium and fine arts building. 
A proposed demolition contract is on the Thursday agenda for the Cobb Board of Education, which is holding its monthly work session (from 2 p.m.-5 p.m.) and business meeting (beginning at 7 p.m.) on the same day due to the upcoming fall break the week of Sept. 25-29.
(See the attached PDF for the full agenda packet).
School officials have received a low bid of $3.584 million from Triad Construction Co. of College Park and are recommending board approval (pages 35-36 of agenda) of the Walton demolition.
The new Walton gym and fine arts components, which are expected to be completed in 2019, represent the final part of the $48 million Walton rebuild, which was approved by Cobb voters in 2013 in the Cobb Ed-SPLOST IV referendum.
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Also on Thursday’s agenda, the school board will consider approving construction easements at two East Cobb elementary schools:
- The new Brumby Elementary School, to be located on Terrell Mill Road, totaling 2,363 square feet, for new curbing, gutters and sidewalks to the entrance (pages 30 & 32 of agenda);
- Murdock Elementary School, 2320 Murdock Road, totaling 9,500 square feet, at the request of Georgia Power Co. to provide electricity to a new portable classroom (pages 30 & 34 of agenda).
At the 7 p.m. meeting Thursday, the Cobb school board also will recognize Walton’s girls state tennis championship team, Georgia Art Education Association teacher honorees Kerri Waller of Simpson Middle School and Kathleen Petka of Walton and the CCSD high school-level classified employee of the Year, Alice Brown of Lassiter High School (previous East Cobb News posts here and here).
The Cobb school board meetings take place in the board room at the CCSD Central Office, 514 Glover St. They are shown live on Comcast Channel 24 and CHARTER Channel 182 and streamed live on Cobb edTV (more viewing details here).
