PJHS Considers Wood for New Floor
</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[The Pinckneyvllle District 50 Board of Education would like to install a new wood floor in the Junior High Gymnasium, but is moving cautiously on the project.
The existing floor is tile over concrete.
Their first step was to obtain prices for a new floor and a new gym to compare the two.
The cost to build a new gym would be just under $2.2 million. A wood overlay on the current floor would be $294,120. Digging out the floor and building a new one would be $594,250.
Superintendent Tim O'Leary said the big thing with wood floor installation is that the floor has to be level within one-eighth of an inch within 10 feet.
The next step will be to have the floor evaluated to see if it is level enough for wood.
O'Leary is also going to explore whether or not health/life/safety funding can be used to pay for all or part of the new floor. Additional health/life/safety projects will be evaluated at the same time.
The soonest a new floor would be installed is the summer of 2012.
In other business, the board:
set the kindergarten registration date for Friday, April 8. Students must be five years of age by September 1, 2011 to enroll in kindergarten. Registration will b e done by appointment this year. The district requires a physical, shot records and certified birth certificate for each student.