By CRISTINA JANNEY
Hays Post
The Hays school board will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday at Roosevelt Elementary School and will be taking a deeper look at the school's HVAC system.
The school district had been planning to replace a portion of the HVAC system at Hays High School.
However, Rusty Lindsay, director of building and grounds, informed the school board recently the HVAC system at Roosevelt was in greater danger of a "catastrophic failure."
Portions of the high school heating and cooling system might go down, but Roosevelt is at higher risk for the entire system failing, Lindsay told the board.
Roosevelt had to be closed for a day earlier this year because a pipe in the HVAC system broke and had to be repaired.
If the school board decides to move forward with the project at Roosevelt, engineering plans would be completed this summer and installation of the new system would likely not be started until next summer.
In the meantime, Lindsay said he hoped the district could do preliminary work on the project this summer and work with the engineer to patch the system to get the school through at least one more year.
In addition to reviewing the school's HVAC system, the board members will be taking a complete tour of the school.
Bond
The board also will be hearing from DLR Group, the school district's architect, about future bond options.
The district had failed bond attempts in 2016 and 2017. Current board members have expressed interest in pursuing a third bond attempt.
Six of the seven board members have been newly elected to the board since the bond attempt in 2017. Only Lance Bickle was on the board during the previous attempts.