THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, January 5, 1995 TAG: 9501050430
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
DATELINE: ELIZABETH CITY LENGTH: Short : 30 lines
Pasquotank County commissioners are expected to approve $6 million in school construction spending Monday after reaching an accord with the Elizabeth City-Pasquotank School Board, officials said Wednesday.
The money will be used to renovate J.C. Sawyer Elementary School for about $3.8 million, add a total of 10 classrooms to Central and Northside elementaries, make improvements to the middle school, and build a bus garage, Superintendent Joseph Peel said.
The construction will be the first part of a two-phase construction plan proposed by the school board in a joint meeting last month. About $2 million of the total $8 million first phase has already been spent on the middle school and a high school field house. Commissioners had suggested changing the original plan by taking about $1 million off the J.C. Sawyer project and moving up plans for Central and Northside.
School Board officials agreed to the changes on Wednesday, Peel said.
Officials also began forming a committee to study the building plan's second phase, which currently proposes improvements to several schools and spending $11 million to build a new middle school. by CNB