ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, March 31, 1996 TAG: 9603290105
SECTION: HORIZON PAGE: G1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: JOEL TURNER
No new high school is likely to be built in Southwest County - at least not soon. Board of Supervisors Chairman Bob Johnson doubts the board will seek funds through the Virginia Public School Authority to finance the school without bonds.
The middle school concept for Southwest County will be delayed. Ninth-graders will remain at Cave Spring Junior and Hidden Valley Junior high schools.
The School Board is expected to renew a request to the supervisors for $2.5 million to renovate and air-condition Cave Spring Junior. The supervisors refused to provide the money last fall, saying they didn't want to spend money on a school that might close if a new high school were built.
The School Board will ask the supervisors for $2.8 million to finish the auditorium, classroom and gym project at Northside High and Middle schools. The supervisors are likely to provide the money because Johnson said the county won't construct a shell structure and leave it unfinished.
Much of the county's computer and technology needs will be deferred. The schools will have to rely on state funds for technology.
The proposed renovation and addition at Mount Pleasant Elementary School will be postponed; additions to other schools also will be delayed until funds are available.
School officials may have to put some used equipment and furniture in the new Glenvar Middle School.
No plans will be developed for additions at Oak Grove Elementary and William Byrd Middle Schools.
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