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Warsaw School Board will hold a second public work session Monday at 7 p.m. in Edgewood Middle School to discuss a proposed $47-million construction program.
Board members will have 10 minutes at the beginning of the meeting to ask questions and make comments.
Advocacy groups will be allowed to speak next, and each group that advocates a specific position on a project will have 10 minutes to make a presentation to the board.
A maximum of four advocacy groups will be scheduled for each work session, and the group must register before the meeting to be put on the agenda.
Scheduled to make presentations Monday are: Parents and Students for Soccer, Warsaw Technology Department, Warsaw Athletic Facility Development Committee and Save Our School Committee from Silver Lake.
After the advocacy groups are finished with their presentations, individuals will be heard, board members will debate the issues and make their closing statements.
The meeting is open to anyone from the public who wants to attend.
What the Warsaw school board is considering:
• $13.165 million to build a new three-section (three classrooms per grade) Atwood Elementary School in Prairie Township to replace the current Atwood Elementary; the new school would have a capacity of 450 students and would include students from Atwood, and overflow students from Leesburg and Harrison elementaries.
• $9.03 million to remodel Claypool Elementary to a three-section school with a capacity for 450 students, which would include all the students from Silver Lake Elementary and overflow students from Eisenhower and Jefferson elementaries after redistricting.
• $7.515 million to add a 1,200-seat auditorium to Warsaw Community High School.
• $5.28 million for a stadium and track at WCHS, including locker room space and toilet facilities for participants, seating, lighting, restrooms, concessions and storage.
• $1.91 million for a weight and wrestling room at WCHS.
• $3.55 million for additional outdoor improvements, including relocating softball, soccer and football practice fields; building a band practice area; building soccer concession and restroom areas; and putting in a connecting drive.
The proposed improvements also include an estimated cost of $6.35 million for a performing arts center at WCHS, but the proposal suggests that this financing be raised from private sources and not from school corporation funds.
