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Facilities Committee Report
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Each year the Facilities Committee meets to solicit ideas from the various school divisions and constituents and establishes priorities for improvements to the school’s facilities. Many of our priorities for the previous two years are tied to the completion of the Sports and Education Annex (The SEA should begin construction in a few weeks as we have just received word that the Town of Cary and the State DOT have reached an agreement that fulfills Cary Academy’s responsibility for meeting the town ordinance on the Cary Parkway extension proposed on the upper corner of our property. This will be the subject of my May monthly letter). The SEA and related projects should meet many of the requests of a more academic nature and that is why the items on the list below fall into other areas.

After considering this year’s submissions and the accompanying rationale, the Committee has decided on priorities to recommend to the Leadership Team and Board of Directors. The Committee considers the relative costs of the items, the extent they improve or add to student programs and school operation, and how wide an audience they impact. These priorities will all not be accomplished next year. They are assessed along with other capital improvement requests and compete for a limited amount of funds.

Below are the priorities established this year, with the estimated cost of each item. Prior to our finalizing this list we would like to give the community a chance to comment, either in person or via email. If you would like to comment in person, I can schedule you to attend our meeting this Tuesday, April 30, from 7 to 8 p.m. If you would like to comment via email, then please submit your comment to me by Tuesday, April 30, at noon. Please note that to place this year’s list in proper context it may be helpful to review last year’s report.Thank you.

Two priorities not completed from last year’s list. They are the top two priorities this year:

1. Additional athletic field space - additional land on Reedy Creek Church road may be donated by SAS

2. Business Office Workroom -- $3,000

Priorities for this year, ranked in order:

3. Add 35 cubbies to the 10^{th , 11th, and 12th
grade corridor (possibly add gym corridor cubbies) -
$2,000 each}

4. Install a PA system with permanent speakers for the soccer/track stadium - $2,000

5. Add a second long jump/triple jump pit - $3,000

6. Baseball field dugouts - $15,000 - $30,000 depending upon materials used

7. Main gym filming platform - $5,000

8. New maintenance shop -- $350,000

9. Orchestra Pit - $80,000