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Weed elementary superintendent lays out costs, timing if Measure Y passes to rebuild mold‑damaged campus
Summary
John Ray, superintendent of Weed Union Elementary, told the city council the district estimates a $6.5 million local bond (Measure Y) to complete the rebuild, in addition to a $3.5 million temporary campus already financed; the state has committed approximately $28 million to the project and the district estimates total completion costs around $7.3 million.
John Ray, superintendent and principal of Weed Union Elementary, told the Weed City Council that the district faces extensive building remediation and reconstruction after flood-related water intrusion revealed dangerous mold and structural deficiencies at the elementary campus.
Ray said the industrial hygienist's testing found "stachytars, stachybaris black mold at 3200% above the acceptable level," and that county public-health guidance required vacating affected buildings. Ray described additional structural problems, including glue-laminated timbers with large cracks that an engineer determined might not meet current snow-load requirements and a boiler vault that would not meet…
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