School board to discuss buses, uniforms, principals

Superintendent David Lewis will ask the Muscogee County School Board on Monday to approve the purchase of 15 buses.

The total cost of the vehicles will be approximately $1.6 million with the funds coming from the 2009 Special Purpose Option Local Sales Tax.

That is just one topic on the agenda of a work session beginning at 5 p.m. in the Muscogee County Public Education Center on Macon Road.

Lewis is expected to present a fiscal year 2017 budget and recommend principals for Lonnie Jackson Academy and Arnold Magnet Academy. No further information was given on the meeting agenda.

In other business:

▪  Lewis will ask the board to approve uniforms for Fox Elementary School. Survey results found 100 percent of the faculty and 65 percent of parents who responded voting in favor of uniforms. Only 63 percent of parents responded.

▪  Lewis will ask the board to approve awarding a contract to River City Construction to serve as construction manager at risk for construction of an autism center at Jordan High School which includes the remodeling of eight classrooms.

▪  The board is being asked to authorize proceeding with a project which will upgrade baseball and softball fields at five high schools, Hardaway, Shaw, Jordan, Kendrick and Columbus, and to appoint French & Associates as landscape architects. This is a $7.2 million project with funding coming from the 2015 Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax

▪  The board will hear a report on how the school district did on the 2015 College and Career Ready Performance Index.

This story was originally published May 8, 2016 at 12:28 PM with the headline "School board to discuss buses, uniforms, principals."