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Asheville City Schools seeks $1.88M for Asheville High perimeter security, plus other facility requests
Summary
Asheville City Schools asked the commission to repurpose an existing $1.65M vestibule allocation and add $229,000 for Asheville High perimeter security (estimated total $1,879,000), requested funding for a middle-school restroom and concession ($~1.3M) and requested FY27 design fees of $560,647 for the 1928 media/gym renovation.
Asheville City Schools presented a series of facility requests on March 30 and asked the School Capital Fund Commission to consider repurposing existing funds and advancing design work.
The district’s presenter (speaker 5) described perimeter vulnerabilities at Asheville High’s nearly 40-acre campus and requested that the commission repurpose a previously approved $1,650,000 security vestibule allocation and add $229,000 from a front-steps project to create a consolidated exterior security project. “So what we’re really asking today is to use that money that’s already established in the fund for this security project at the high school and then add in the $229,000 from the front step…
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