PEA RIDGE — Athletic facilities were considered at the May School Board meeting, as head football coach Tony Travis presented preliminary bids on the new athletic facility planned for the field west of the high school and head basketball coach Charley Clark presented bids for refinishing the basketball court in the high school gym.
Travis presented information from Sporthall for a fabric-covered building for a field house.
The turn-key price was estimated at $2,133,817. The structure proposed would include locker rooms, weight rooms and other athletic facilities connected to the field house.
“Personally, I’d like to see this by the June meeting,” Rick Webb, board member, said. “I’d like to see us speed this up. We’re not going to be able to have it for this fall, but maybe the following year.
“I’m sure you’ve got a couple of ideas about where we’re going to come up with the money,” Webb said to superintendent Mike Van Dyke.
“I think we can come up with the money. I just think this will happen,” Webb said.
Clark said the gym floor needed to be resurfaced and repainted. He presented two bids. The one from Gym Masters for $12,350 was accepted. Gym Masters has passed the bidding process on the state level, according to Van Dyke. Clark said it had been 10 years since the floor was finished.
The job is to be completed in the two weeks referred to as“dead weeks” during the summer when there is no athletic practice.
On the agenda, but not completed, was making assignments for coaching positions. Athletic director Larry Walker told the board he was working on making all assignments, but there were four positions still not filled.
“We’re in a holding pattern to see what works out here,” Walker told the board. Van Dyke told him the contracts must be presented to the employees 30 days prior to July 1 because they must be turned into the state Department of Education by then.
“We’ll have to hire a new individual or load people up,” Walker said.
High School principal Rick Neal said there are no open teaching positions.
In other business, the board accepted the resignations of:
◊Quentin Snoderly from coaching junior high basketball and track, but not teaching;
◊Anita Wood, intermediate school principal;
◊Jeffery Treadwell, special education teacher;
◊Rhonda Daniels, high school Spanish teacher; and
◊Steve Kelchner, bus driver.
The board also approved a request from the schools’ media specialists to decrease their contract from 200 days to 195 days.
News, Pages 1 on 05/12/2010