POTTSTOWN PA – A contract with architects to design a new secure vestibule for Pottsgrove Middle School was approved Tuesday (April 27, 2010) by the Pottsgrove School District Board of School Directors, but it did not act – in fact, the matter was never even publicly raised – on the long-standing question of where Ringing Rocks Elementary School students would be temporarily housed next year.
The middle school on North Hanover Street, Pottstown PA, is one of two potential sites to which Ringing Rocks learners could be moved when reconstruction of their building begins later this summer. The other location is St. Pius High School, North Keim Street, which will be vacated this year as its students move to new quarters in Royersford PA.
Design of the vestibule, intended to help prevent unauthorized individuals from entering the school building, was unanimously approved by directors without comment. Board members Robert Lindgren and Patricia Grimm were absent and did not vote.
The work will be done by Gilbert Architects of Lancaster PA at a cost not to exceed $15,000. Money for the project will come from the district capital reserve budget.
Ringing Rocks Elementary School.
District Superintendent Dr. Bradley Landis recently expressed hope the board could decide soon on where Ringing Rocks students will be placed. The hold-up: negotiations are continuing between the district and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia over “almost everything” in a potential lease of the Pius building, Landis said after Tuesday’s meeting ended.
Also regarding the middle school, directors unanimously voted to accept a board Facilities Committee’ recommendation to spend up to $11,000 to investigate the extent of damages to a retaining wall there. “It’s got some real problems, and some issues that need to be addressed,” board Treasurer Fred Remelius said of the wall.
Related (to the Pottsgrove Board of School Directors’ meeting of April 27):
Related (to Ringing Rocks Elementary School renovations):
- Ringing Rocks Plan Approval Held Until May
- Ringing Relocation Decision Deferred Again
- Township Legal Move Saves District Time, Money
- Economic Tales, Exec Sessions, And Long Night At Pottsgrove
- Geothermal Now ‘Locked’ Into Ringing Re-Build
- How Estimated Costs For Ringing Shape Up
- Less Is More In School Project, Planners Learn
- Bids Sought For Ringing Project Asbestos Removal
- Ringing Relocation Decision Possible In Two Weeks
- Restaurant, Ringing Projects Win Conditional Uses
- Ringing Rocks, Restaurant Hearing Topics Tonight
- Pottsgrove Student Enrollment: Up? Yes. Down? Yes Again
- Green Discussion At Ringing Results In Red Faces
- Pottsgrove, Archdiocese Still Discussing Pius Lease
- Ringing Rocks Relocation Discussion Set For Tonight
- In The Ringing Rebuild, Whither Pius?
- Ringing Rocks Relocation Plan: Modulars At MS
- Ringing Rocks Construction Cost Hearing Tonight
- Planners OK Ringing Rocks Land Sketch
- District Sets Dec. 3 Hearing On Rocks Budget
- Pottsgrove Asks State Help To Pay For Ringing Re-Build
- As School Opens, Progress On Ringing Rocks’ Project
- Surprise Enrollment Spurs Demographic Interest
- District Assembles Ringing Rocks Planning Team
- District OKs Architect Negotiations
- Consensus On Ringing Renovations: $16M
- Ringing Rocks Proposals Aired Tuesday
- Ringing Rocks Re-Examined April 14
- Pottsgrove To Trust-But-Verify On Ringing Plans
- Ringing Rocks Plans Take Another Step
- No Shortage Of Ideas At Pottsgrove Meeting
- Weigh In On Pottsgrove Renovations
- Framing The Rocks Discussion
- Response Mixed To Pottsgrove Improvements
- District Invites Public For Study Results
- A Different Rocks, But Only As A Concept
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