Needed maintenance also addressed at board meeting

No plans have been made, nor are there any in the works at present, but with that most important little detail having been clari_ed, the Stanley-Boyd School Board heard the results December 21 of a survey that it had earlier commissioned from CESA 10 Facilities Management Services (CESA 10 FMS) in regards to both needed maintenance and possible improvements to district facilities and infrastructure in the future, including something called a “cafetorium” in the present rectangular courtyard space on the Stanley campus’ north side. Among those appearing from CESA 10 FMS were Charlie Schneider and Nate Currell, each in a separate capacity. Currell presented on needed maintenance like lights and interior

doors at Boyd, while Schneider

presented on possible future improvements to district infrastructure.

First up, the in-

complete maintenance report!

“An upgrade to the main distribution would be a good idea at some point,” Currell counseled the school board on a

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Charlie Schneider of CESA 10 FMS presents a cafetorium concept to the Stanley-Boyd School Board December 21.

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breaker panel as he went over the different points that the team had found in its survey, among which was fob door access at Boyd and the gym _oor.

“So the gym _oor…is in rough shape,” Currell said of Boyd, saying that he would recommend doing a re_nish. Prompted with a question sequence initiated by school

board member Lance Carlson, though, Currell did have good news to share. “The roofs are in very good shape as far as workmanship goes,” Currell said of

the Stanley campus, adding that he had

walked a lot of white roofs in the last few years like that just recently installed by the district above the elementary and middle schools and that the work done at Stanley-Boyd “was done really well.” Taking over from Currell, CESA 10 FMS representative Schneider gave the board concept ideas to improve district facilities

in the future.

“So we were also asked as part of this

report to look at some different things that could be done around the building that could solve some of the issues you have or maybe upgrade,” he said, with a slide on screen highlighting three separate areas that had received special attention for possible remodel. First though, there was a _eld house concept to consider. “So one of the things we talked about was ‘what if we build a _eld house?’” Schneider said. “What might that look like and what might we do?”

One option was to put it on the south

side of the Stanley campus as an add-on,

with a track running on the upper level and the court surface “one level below

where you’re standing now,” Schneider told board members. A _eld house could

provide storage area and locker room facilities.

Not stated by Schneider but worth

mentioning for future comparison is that

the River Falls High School and UW-Eau

Claire both have a similar concept of upper- level game viewing and track surface

with lower-level sports play. The _eld

house as presented was estimated for a

potential cost of $5 million, a top price tag item.

Also touched on as a possible future improvement to the Stanley-Boyd district facilities was turning the current kitchen and cafeteria space in the high school area into district of_ces along with a “21st

century learning space,” set to cost a potential $3.5 million in “very preliminary” numbers, should it be built in the future. But revisiting the story top again, what’s a “cafetorium?”

“Is that like what Thorp has in their elementary?” Carlson asked survey consultant Charlie Schneider of CESA 10 FMS regarding a cafetorium, or a cross between food service and auditorium uses. Schneider answered that what Thorp has

is “very similar” to a cafetorium with

said remodel option in the north side courtyard was “much bigger” than what

Stanley-Boyd currently had, offering a visual of one that CESA 10 FMS is currently working to develop up in Spooner. Schneider said that the cafetorium storage area could store chairs and a stage to be

brought out brie_y each year when it became an auditorium, while another at the school board meeting noted that a space dedicated strictly to auditorium use might get used around one to three times per year, hardly being worth the investment dollars it would cost. It was in part for this reason that Stanley-Boyd couldn’t build an auditorium dedicated solely to band

and choir use. Being _exible instead had cost/use advantages. Concept three was to add walls and redo the HVAC system in an open square space.

“Minimally, you want to _x it so the heating/ventilating system has supply and return in every place, good lighting, and sound control, so that it’s a good learning environment,” Schneider said. With the cost slide stressing that the numbers for all three concepts were “very preliminary,” the less expensive version of concept three with sheetrock walls and steel studs, while the concrete block version

could end up being as high as $5 million,

presented solely as a concept rather than a

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planned project. But there was more.

“What if you essentially wanted to create a new middle school?” Schneider said. “You’ve got the gym, you’ve

got all the little stuff but you

need some classrooms.” Part of the reason that it hadn’t been included was that “there’s a lot of different things you could

do,” Schneider told the school board, with Koenig chiming in

that he had raised classrooms

as being a district need. Schneider said that one option would be to build the cafetorium and

_eld house at the same time,

and effectively together, along with the nine classrooms the

district might need. It would be expensive, but could be used to

bring things together and create an entrance, while working in the courtyard would entail lifting the excavating equipment up and over the existing building infrastructure.

“That comes with its own challenges, but not that big of a deal—not as big as it sounds,” Schneider said, giving Menomonie as an example of one district that had _lled in its courtyard green space. Each of the possible improvements was merely a suggestion from CESA 10 FMS, with

no plans for anything besides maintenance needs at present.

Should that change, there

would be more people needed— just not yet.

“As a way to save you money, we don’t bring them in until they’re needed,” Schneider said of architects and design professionals each concept would require to bring to fruition.

Of the concepts presented, meanwhile, Schneider said that, “The next step might be to do nothing,” or else that. “The next step might be to do everything. If there’s anything else you want us to take a look

at, we’re more than happy too.” Carlson had a question of

his own on the study.

“Did you evaluate Oriole

Park at all?” he asked Schneider.

“No,” Schneider said,

though later in the meeting the school board approved a

$85,803 bid from CustoFoam

to repair a rubber membrane that had been punctured during the original construction of Oriole Park and was leading to

condensation in the subterranean locker room space, along with roof work on three sections adjacent to the pool and high school library areas. In the meantime, Koenig wanted to make one thing clear about

district _nances and possible improvements.

“I don’t know how many times I said it,” he told the

board, “but I said: ‘we are not going to referendum. We are not going to referendum. We are not going to referendum.’”