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Syosset superintendent details summer construction, emergency Walt Whitman repair and Berry Hill property transfer effort
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Rogers updated the Syosset Board of Education on completed and planned construction projects, an emergency electrical repair at Walt Whitman Elementary and the district—s effort to obtain a narrow, state-owned parcel adjacent to Berry Hill to provide construction access and a required fire-access road.
Superintendent Dr. Rogers briefed the board on an extensive summer of construction and on legislative progress toward obtaining a narrow parcel of state-owned land adjacent to Berry Hill Elementary that the district says is needed to complete planned construction.
Rogers said emergency work was approved and completed this summer to repair an electrical feeder line at Walt Whitman Elementary after a failure that made the building unusable; the repair was completed about a week and a half before the meeting and had held without interruption. The district also progressed roof replacement projects at the high school and Southwoods Middle School, completed chimney reinforcement work at the high school, and finished a safety-driven redesign at South Grove (separating car and bus arrival/dismissal loops).
At the high school, the district renovated a media/TV classroom to…
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