Summer work on schools OK’d

• By DAVID J. MITCHELL
• Advocate Florida parishes bureau
• Published: May 23, 2009 - Page: 4B

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The Livingston Parish School Board accepted low bids for more than $1.3 million in summertime renovation and improvement projects to schools across the parish, officials said Friday.

Those projects ranged from sprucing up old schools to resurfacing parking lots and replacing school roofs, officials said.

Work is projected to be finished before the 2009-10 school year begins in August, weather and other factors permitting, said Glen Coburn, new construction director, and Rodney Russell, maintenance director.

The School Board approved bids Thursday night in Livingston that encompassed the following work, according to school bid documents:

• Up to $186,000 in resurfacing for a worn-out parking lot at Maurepas High School.
• A $256,227 project to pave and expand a limestone parking lot at Westside Junior High School in Walker.
• A $262,000 project to renovate Southside Elementary School in Denham Springs, which dates from the 1950s and will get new floor tiles, ceilings and windows.
• A $599,903 project to replace at least portions of roofs at 11 schools across the parish.

In other business, the board approved new computer access and use policies for students and teachers and also gave its OK to new facilities planning policies.

Among computer policy proscriptions, students are prohibited from posting any e-mail or message on school networks and computers that are indecent, vulgar, lewd, slanderous, abusive, threatening, sexually harassing or terrorizing.