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Board details secure-entrance designs and maintenance-building options; capital outlay considered for small projects

Osage City School Board · May 14, 2026
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Summary

Staff described secure-entry (man-trap) designs for elementary and high-school offices, a new maintenance building with a bus bay (not a bus barn) and options to use capital outlay or lease-purchase financing for some work outside a bond.

District staff outlined plans to improve building security and to construct a new maintenance facility that would include a bus bay for undercover maintenance work (the proposal is not for a bus barn). The secure-entrance concept would funnel visitors into the office through a controlled vestibule, allowing secretaries to manage access rather than permitting free entry into the building.

Finance options were discussed for these projects, including taking some work out of a bond and using capital outlay dollars or a lease-purchase to fund a maintenance building and secure entries. The superintendent noted about $150,000 might remain in capital outlay this fiscal year, sufficient for a set of smaller projects (parking-lot striping, locker-room paint, playground fixes) but not for large-scale construction without additional funding.