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School board approves three portable classrooms to relieve overcrowding at Purple Sage and house district technology staff
Summary
The Middleton School District board voted to order three portable classrooms—two for Purple Sage Elementary and a third to house technology staff—after months of planning and discussion about costs, water hookup and restroom capacity. The board approved a roughly $886,000 package; water hookups and some site work remain to be completed.
The Middleton School District Board of Trustees voted to order three portable classrooms to relieve overcrowding at Purple Sage Elementary and provide a semi-permanent home for the district technology team.
The board approved the portable purchases after district staff presented cost estimates, site constraints and alternatives including permanent additions. The board’s motion to approve the portable orders passed at a regular meeting where administrators and the district’s technology staff described operational impacts and timing.
District administrators said two dry-portable units (no restrooms) would be placed at Purple Sage to provide roughly four classroom spaces and free the school library and other shared spaces now used as classrooms. A third portable, with restroom facilities in the bid shown to the board, would be sited near the middle school to provide a central location for the technology department and related storage. The vendor’s lead estimated the portables could be installed by January if ordered promptly.
In presenting the item, the…
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