The Washougal School District had some leftover state funds from its 2015 bond, so the school board approved an additional set of capital improvements to fund at their board meeting Tuesday night.
The district’s Citizen Oversight Team identified and prioritized the use of $2 million in excess state assistance funds on projects from the 2014 Long Range Capital Facility Planning process.
The new projects the district hopes to fund are construction of covered play areas for Gause Elementary School and Hathaway Elementary School, safer traffic flow and parking improvements at Gause, construction of a dry storage building for athletic equipment at Canyon Creek Middle School and improvements and upgrades to Washougal High School’s Fishback Stadium, including replacing existing restrooms with ADA accessible facilities, relocating concessions, replacing wood plank seating with aluminum and installing new visitor-side bleachers.
The additional projects will be funded in order of priority determined by the team and are subject to estimates received by the district. In a release from the district, Superintendent Mike Stromme said the “funds are required by state law to be used for capital projects,” and they can’t be used for other district expenditures.
