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Just six years after Waynesville High School’s, the Waynesville School Board is considering adding up to $22 million in upgrades and improvements over the next two years.
The board looked at proposals that would add a new football stadium, two field houses, a ninth-grade center, expanding the current cafeteria, bleachers for the basketball and volleyball courts, locker rooms for the girls' and boys' varsity and junior varsity sports teams, the band room area, a new wrestling area, and a library addition.
The football stadium would have 3,000 seats for the grandstand with an additional 500 elevated seats for visiting fans or overflow of home fans. There would also be an eight-lane track around the football field, high jump and pole vault area and two scoreboards.
Fieldhouse “A” would have 95 lockers, showers, weight room, tape area, officials office, laundry, three hydro tubs, a coaches' office and a classroom area.
Field house “B” would house the locker rooms for softball, tennis and the freshman football teams, a concession stand, coaches office and storage for cheerleading and the soccer, softball and tennis teams as well as storage for the coaches.
The construction is broken up into different projects. Project “A1” will be the three-story, ninth-grade center expansion, which will also have an outdoor classroom on the adjacent roof and will cost $5,075,710 to complete.
The ninth-grade expansion will include the pre-school, a lifestyle fitness room, two separate entrances, a reception/waiting area, assembly area, 23 classrooms, three offices and a teachers' work room. There will also be an outdoor learning lab off of the second floor and a separate entrance for after school functions.
Project “A2” will cost $1,533,350 and will feature upgrades to the entrance, administration, physical education classrooms and computer labs. The total cost of project “A” is $6,609,060.
Project “B” is the expansion and renovation of the cafeteria and kitchen area and will cost $1,431,430. With this project there would be new seating added, a new entrance, six checkout rows, the Tiger store, vending area and an expanded food scramble area.
Project “C” is all the work for the athletic area — the new fieldhouses, stadium and concession areas. “C1” will cost $1,902,980 and is for the main field house. “C2” will cost $1,405,050 and is the second field house and “C3” would be the site work, track and football field and would cost $3,381,372.
There is a “C4” for improvements to the baseball and soccer fields that are located by East Elementary School.
That cost would be $915,060, bringing the total cost for project “C” to $7,604,462.
Just six years after Waynesville High School’s, the Waynesville School Board is considering adding up to $22 million in upgrades and improvements over the next two years.
The board looked at proposals that would add a new football stadium, two field houses, a ninth-grade center, expanding the current cafeteria, bleachers for the basketball and volleyball courts, locker rooms for the girls' and boys' varsity and junior varsity sports teams, the band room area, a new wrestling area, and a library addition.
The football stadium would have 3,000 seats for the grandstand with an additional 500 elevated seats for visiting fans or overflow of home fans. There would also be an eight-lane track around the football field, high jump and pole vault area and two scoreboards.
Fieldhouse “A” would have 95 lockers, showers, weight room, tape area, officials office, laundry, three hydro tubs, a coaches' office and a classroom area.
Field house “B” would house the locker rooms for softball, tennis and the freshman football teams, a concession stand, coaches office and storage for cheerleading and the soccer, softball and tennis teams as well as storage for the coaches.
The construction is broken up into different projects. Project “A1” will be the three-story, ninth-grade center expansion, which will also have an outdoor classroom on the adjacent roof and will cost $5,075,710 to complete.
The ninth-grade expansion will include the pre-school, a lifestyle fitness room, two separate entrances, a reception/waiting area, assembly area, 23 classrooms, three offices and a teachers' work room. There will also be an outdoor learning lab off of the second floor and a separate entrance for after school functions.
Project “A2” will cost $1,533,350 and will feature upgrades to the entrance, administration, physical education classrooms and computer labs. The total cost of project “A” is $6,609,060.
Project “B” is the expansion and renovation of the cafeteria and kitchen area and will cost $1,431,430. With this project there would be new seating added, a new entrance, six checkout rows, the Tiger store, vending area and an expanded food scramble area.
Project “C” is all the work for the athletic area — the new fieldhouses, stadium and concession areas. “C1” will cost $1,902,980 and is for the main field house. “C2” will cost $1,405,050 and is the second field house and “C3” would be the site work, track and football field and would cost $3,381,372.
There is a “C4” for improvements to the baseball and soccer fields that are located by East Elementary School.
That cost would be $915,060, bringing the total cost for project “C” to $7,604,462.
The improvements for the baseball and soccer fields have not been finalized yet and they won't have a plan for that until after the December school board meeting.
Project “D” is for the practice gym renovation for the wrestling team and would cost $809,985. This would include second floor renovations, relocating the bleacher and basketball goals, locker room renovations, wrestling room renovations and would cover any demolition work that needs to be done.
The school would also spend an additional $1,965,935 for three other projects that would renovate and expand the current locker rooms by the gym, renovate and expand the library and cover any other miscellaneous construction projects such as additional lockers, additions to the band room, copy room and ceramics renovations, a new entry at the main office, special education classroom renovation, work room relocation and lower level restroom modifications
The total cost for the eight construction projects would be $18,420,872 plus another $3,673,416 for design, bidding and construction contingencies, surveys, fees, furniture, AV systems, computers, security system, telephone system, geo-tech boring, civil engineering grading and administrative costs, bringing the total cost to $22,094,288.
Also the board voted to approve giving Bales Construction a $10,588,000 contract to begin construction on the new sixth- grade learning center. The learning center will be located on the site of the former Waynesville Technical Center, adjacent to the Waynesville Middle School.
