The Butler Area School District is moving forward with the process of planning an expansion of and addition to the Senior High School.
At their Monday night meeting, the school board approved the hiring of Eckles Construction Services Inc to provide construction management services for an auxiliary gym, classroom addition, and locker-room reorganization subject to solicitor review at a cost of $293,000.
A pre-engineered metal building used mostly for physical education classes with collapsible seating for 350-400 spectators is planned near the current Senior High Gym.
The classroom addition project would be constructed at the current site of the covered walkway at the Senior High and include STEAM space, a large group instruction area and possibly a connection to the 300 wing. This space is needed for reorganization that would see 9th grade students shifted to the Senior High.
The gym project includes an eight month construction period and is expected to begin next month. The classroom addition project will likely go out to bid in the next couple of months which would put that on track for completion in the summer of 2022.
