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School district outlines $53.4 million in CIP nominations, flags aging boilers and Tanana Middle School replacement
Summary
Fairbanks North Star Borough school district officials presented a prioritized list of roughly 33 capital projects totaling about $53.4 million in nominations to DEED and the borough, highlighting urgent boiler replacements and a potential full replacement of Tanana Middle School that would rely on federal funding and a 20% local match.
School district officials presented their prioritized capital improvement project (CIP) nominations to the Assembly Finance Committee on Oct. 2, saying they had submitted roughly 33 projects and that the district’s immediate priorities are mechanical systems and building envelopes that threaten education delivery if they fail.
“Our number 1 really is the Lathrop High School,” Andy DeGruer, the district’s chief operations officer, said in the presentation. He said the district prioritized projects that could disrupt education — boilers, heat exchangers, roofs and life‑safety systems — and that the prioritization draws on DEED’s facility condition index, the district’s work‑order history and operational impact.
DeGruer and the district’s facilities executives, including Jay Carreon and Clay Anderson, told the committee they submitted nine projects to the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development (DEED) and 33 to…
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