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District recommends replacing aging high-school boiler with mini-splits; estimates about $269,000
Summary
Superintendent recommended decommissioning the high-school boiler and installing mini-splits across Cape Hill Junior Senior High, citing leaking pipes, a failing return-water tank and outdated controls; the cost estimate presented was about $269,000 with bids in hand.
District leadership proposed replacing the failing boiler system at Cape Hill Junior Senior High with distributed mini-splits to provide climate control across classrooms, gym and cafeteria. The superintendent summarized multiple system failures — corroding return water tank, leaking piping, failing steam traps and an outdated control technology installed in the 1980s — and said retrofitting the boiler system would be cost-prohibitive compared with installing mini-splits.
He presented a current estimate of about $269,000 to complete the work this summer and said bids have already been received. "I'm estimating right now that we can do that with a little bit of an overage for $269,000 this summer," he said. The board discussed coverage of large capital needs and whether contingency funds would be used; staff said replacing the boiler as proposed would decommission the old system and add roughly 26 mini-splits across the building.
