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Facilities report: Lexington 2 details summer roofing, HVAC and campus upgrades, leaves PAC contingency open
Summary
Director Bill McPherson outlined extensive summer maintenance and upgrades — roofing, HVAC replacements and controls, playground and athletic-facility work, press-box and technology updates — and operations recommended holding PAC project contingency for a year to cover post-occupancy needs.
Bill McPherson, director of operations, delivered a detailed account of summer and pre-summer facilities work across the Lexington 2 district, noting projects completed or in progress at many campuses.
McPherson described roofing replacements at multiple sites, ESSER-funded HVAC replacements and control upgrades (37 classroom units plus rooftop units at several schools), paint and flooring projects, new playground installations, press-box and concession upgrades at athletic complexes, concrete/asphalt repair, conversion of an overgrown courtyard at BC High School into a usable student space and replacement of an aging sewer line beneath a community education center. He said much of the labor and many system upgrades were completed in-house and emphasized a continuing pipeline of pending furniture orders, LED light installations, scoreboards and gym sound systems.
On the performing-arts-center (PAC) project, board members asked whether roughly $75,000 in contingency funds could be reallocated to portable-classroom air-conditioner repairs; operations staff cautioned that keeping a one-year contingency is standard practice to cover post-occupancy adjustments, and they said vendor lead times have slowed replacement-part delivery for certain unit-control boards. Staff committed to continue vendor coordination and to provide updates about repair timing and efforts to mitigate noise that is affecting portable classrooms.
McPherson also highlighted maintenance-scale statistics — thousands of HVAC units and hundreds of acres to maintain — to underscore the scope of district facilities responsibilities.
