Attachment 2 – Emergency Repair Grant Project Abstracts
Abstracts of Funded Projects—Fiscal Year 2002/3
Impact Aid Discretionary Construction Grant Program
CFDA: 84.041C
Taholah School District # 77 (57-WA-1002)
600 Chitwin Drive
P.O. Box 249
Taholah, Washington 98587
Project Director: Barbara A. Capoeman
360/275-4729
Funding: $1,378,124
The Taholah School District will address several conditions that affect the health and safety of students and staff in the Taholah School, which enrolls 230 children of the Quinault Nation in grades K through 12. The project will repair the building’s failing roof, replace and upgrade the fire safety system, correct electrical system deficiencies, and replace the facility’s heating system.
Browning Elementary School District (36-MT-0812)
Box 61
Browning, Montana 59417
Project Director: William S. Juneau
406/338-2715
Funding: $2,152,120
The Browning Elementary School District will build a new elementary school facility to replace the Babb Elementary School, which currently enrolls 34 children of the Blackfeet Reservation in grades K through 6. The existing Babb School, built in 1903, suffers from a series of emergency conditions including an inadequate sewage system, failure to meet handicapped accessibility requirements, failure to meet electrical and plumbing codes, and a condemned basement and foundation in the main building.
Bering Strait School District (11-AK-2802)
P.O. Box 225
Unalakleet, Alaska 99684
Project Director: Kerry Jarrell
907/624-4268
Funding: $5,371,575
The Bering Strait School District will replace the Brevig Mission School, which currently enrolls 114 Alaska Native students in grades K through 12. Extreme overcrowding in the current school and the use of modular classrooms physically separated from the main building causes serious health, hygiene and safety issues for students and staff during extreme winter weather conditions.
Wyola Elementary School District (36-MT-1014)
P.O. Box 66
Wyola, Montana 59089
Project Director: Wanda Johnston
406/343-2722
Funding: Fire Safety System $18,000
Gymnasium Floor $86,250
The Wyola Elementary School District will correct two emergency conditions in the Wyola Elementary School, which enrolls 49 children of the Crow Indian Reservation in grades K through 8. The projects will replace a faulty fire safety system and eliminate degraded asbestos floor tiles in the gymnasium.
Rocky Boy Elementary School District (36-MT-2206)
RR #1 Box 620
Box Elder, Montana 59521
Project Director: Sandra Murie
406/395-4291
Funding: $1,153,800
The Rocky Boy Elementary School District will address health and safety deficiencies in the Rocky Boy Elementary School, which enrolls 339 children of the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation in grades K through 8. The project will replace the roof, replace damaged interior ceilings and upgrade the electrical and fire safety systems to bring them to code.
Zuni Public Schools (41-NM-3201)
P.O. Box Drawer A, 22 Saint Anthony Drive
Zuni, New Mexico 87327
Project Director: David Maestas
505/782-5511
Funding: $2,012,879
The Zuni Public Schools will address multiple emergency repair needs in the Zuni Middle School, which enrolls 387 children of the Zuni Reservation. The project will install a new fire alarm and suppression system and improve the heating, ventilation, and cooling system to address health issues that result from inadequate heating and cooling. The project will also repair a portion of the facility’s roof.
Dahlonegah Elementary School District (46-OK-0816)
Route 1 Box 1795
Stilwell, Oklahoma 74960
Project Director: Jeff Limore
918/696-7807
Funding: $536,100
The Dahlonegah Elementary School District will repair a faulty roof, remove asbestos tiles, and address heating, ventilation, and cooling and electrical deficiencies in the Dahlonegah Elementary School, which enrolls 97 children.
Box Elder Elementary School (36-MT-0907)
P.O. Box 205
Box Elder, Montana 59521
Project Director: Robert A. Heppner
406/352-4195
Funding: $1,646,600
The Box Elder Elementary School District will add eight classrooms of instructional space to Box Elder Elementary School, which enrolls 366 students in grades K through 8, mostly from the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation. Currently, students are housed in severely inadequate temporary buildings that do not meet fire safety standards and handicapped accessibility requirements.
Hays/Lodge Pole School District 50 (36-MT-4403)
P.O. Box 110
Hays, Montana 59527
Project Director: Violet Crasco
406/673-3121
Funding: $3,692,918
The Hays/Lodge Pole School District will complete construction of a replacement elementary school. The existing facility, Lodge Pole Elementary School, enrolls 127 children from the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation and has many health and safety issues including inadequate sewer and plumbing systems, faulty electrical wiring, and a failing roof and heating, ventilation, and cooling system.
Yukon-Koyukuk School District (11-AK-2812)
4762 Old Airport Way
Fairbanks, Alaska 99709
Project Director: Gale Bourne
907/374-9414
Funding: Johnny Oldman School $417,707
Andrew K. Demoski School $547,827
Jimmy Huntington School $810,806
Allakaket School $627,598
Total $2,403,938
The Yukon-Koyukuk School District will address heating issues in four of their facilities by repairing and in some cases replacing aging boiler systems prone to fail. These schools have a combined enrollment of 239 Alaska Native children.
Kenwood School District # 30 of Delaware County (46-OK-1018)
Route 1, Box 179
Salina, Oklahoma 74365
Project Director: Kenneth Limore
918/434-5799
Funding: $564,136
The Kenwood School District will address several emergency conditions in the Kenwood School, which enrolls 117 children. The project will replace the school’s roof and ceilings, which have structural deficiencies. The project will also install a fire suppression sprinkler system, improve the electrical system to meet codes and upgrade the heating, ventilation, and cooling system.
Fort Yates Public School District #4 (44-ND-1417)
105 N. Agency Avenue
P.O. Box 428
Fort Yates, North Dakota 58538
Project Director: Clyde C. Naasz
701/854-3899
Funding: $4,583,796
The Fort Yates Public School District will construct a new middle school facility to house children who are currently educated in obsolete wooden and modular units. The new school will educate approximately 230 students on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.
Wolf Point Elementary School District #45 (36-MT-1029)
220 4th Avenue South
Wolf Point, Montana 59201
Project Director: Andrew W. Holmlund
406/653-2361
Funding: Northside Elementary School $17,021
Southside Elementary School $88,757
Total $105,778
The Wolf Point Elementary School District will remove and replace deteriorated asbestos floor tiles in the Northside Elementary School, which enrolls 223 children in grades 4 through 6. The School District will also correct similar asbestos floor problems in the Southside Elementary School, which enrolls 310 children in grades K through 3.
Crown Charter School
P.O. Box 363
Litchfield Park, Arizona 85340
Project Director: James Shade
623/535-9300
Funding: $186,968
The Crown Charter School will acquire and install modular restroom facilities that will permit the school to provide sufficient safely accessible restrooms for its students. Currently, 130 students attend the Crown Charter School; many of these children are dependents of military personnel posted at Luke Air Force Base.
Brockton High School District 55F (36-MT-1802)
P.O. Box 198
Brockton, Montana 59213
Project Director: Bernard Lambert
406/786-3311
Funding: $568,161
The Brockton High School District will repair a damaged roof for Brockton High School and replace the school’s aged heating, ventilation, and cooling system. Brockton High School enrolls 62 children of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.
Harlem Elementary School District # 12 (36-MT-0717)
P.O. Box 339
Harlem, Montana 59526
Project Director: M. Neil Terhune
406/353-2289
Funding: $468,612
The Harlem Elementary School District will address emergency needs in Harlem Elementary School with a range of projects including mold and asbestos abatement, improving the heating, ventilation, and cooling system, upgrading the fire alarm system, and increasing accessibility to meet handicapped accessibility requirements. Harlem Elementary School enrolls 329 children of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation.
Dixon School District #9 (36-MT-1117)
P.O. Box 10
Dixon, Montana 59831
Project Director: Mark Faroni
406/246-3566
Funding: $60,100
The Dixon School District will address needs in the Dixon School, which enrolls 59 children of the Flathead Reservation. The project repairs broken and deteriorated glass panes, improves the boiler room’s ventilation system, repairs crumbling stairways, and installs handrails along elevated surfaces.
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