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Facilities report: new seats, playground loops and two older properties recommended as surplus
Summary
The facilities committee provided a capital projects update and recommended two older district parcels — an 8‑acre Kingston site and a 16‑acre Conway Learning Center — be classified as surplus for future board consideration.
Facilities committee chair Neil James updated the board on capital projects across Horry County Schools, summarizing completed work and active builds and notifying trustees that the committee will recommend two older properties be declared surplus.
The facilities update included completed and in‑progress projects: new seating at Myrtle Beach High and Aynor High auditoriums, installation of a parent drop‑off loop at Blackwater Middle School, ongoing restroom and theater renovations at Daisy Elementary, anticipated striping and playing surface work at St. James tennis courts, and continuing construction work at Pine Island and Tin Oaks elementary schools (brick veneer, roofing, HVAC/MEP rough‑ins and expectation of main power hookups and walk‑in coolers).
James also reported the committee voted to recommend to the full board that two parcels be classified as surplus property for future board consideration: the old Kingston property at the intersection of Highway 905 and Old Reeds Ferry Road (about 8 acres, building dating to 1954) and the Conway Learning Center off Sherwood Drive in Conway (roughly 16 acres, building constructed in 1964). The committee indicated the district will have no continuing need for these properties once other facilities work is completed.
Nut graf: In addition to project progress, the district approved, at committee level, using $1,020,000 of 2024–25 capital improvement project funds to purchase modular classrooms to be installed at Midland Elementary and discussed relocating 56 modular units from Carolina Forest area elementary schools over the summer following completion of two new Carolina Forest schools.
Joe Burch, a district planner, described coordination between the district and local governments, noting regular data sharing and access to GIS layers from the county and municipalities to inform attendance zone adjustments, capacity planning, and a five‑year capital improvement forecast. "We meet with the Horry County planning and engineering groups as well as the city of Conway and Myrtle Beach and North Myrtle Beach to discuss developments and review activities going on in those jurisdictions," Burch said.
Ending: The facilities committee's recommendations (including the surplus‑property referrals) will be brought to the full board for formal action at a subsequent meeting; committee staff will also provide detailed timelines for modular relocations and the planned use of the $1,020,000 CIP allocation.
