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Board weighs eliminating mezzanine in athletic building to cut costs and improve safety
Summary
Board discussion centered on whether to eliminate a proposed mezzanine for mat storage in the new athletic building and instead use motorized mat lifts and larger reversible mats to reduce handling risk and overall project costs; a special meeting was scheduled to approve related bids.
The superintendent led a technical discussion about mat storage and handling for the new athletic building, laying out two main options and the trade-offs.
One design kept a suspended mezzanine that would store multiple smaller "flex" mats stacked and require a hoisting system; the other would eliminate the mezzanine, substitute two motorized mat lifts (roughly $20,000 to $25,000 each) and install four large reversible "classic" mats (the…
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