Well for now Reiter is still one of our schools. It looks like it will remain closed for the upcoming school year however. Looks like Grandview is getting new windows too. Any idea when this project will be started?
from the BCCT:
Board to move students
By: MANASEE WAGH
Bucks County Courier Times
Fourth- through eighth-graders will share the same building with high school students. M.R. Reiter Elementary will remain closed through the 2009-10 school year.
Morrisville school board voted Wednesday night to provide an official statement to the state about keeping two of its schools open this year.
M.R. Reiter Elementary will remain closed through the 2009-10 school year. The board has yet to decide whether to close it permanently.
Though the vote to move all children in grades four and five into the high school building was taken in February, the state Department of Education needs paperwork showing which schools would be operational.
According to the plan, children in grades four through eight will share the same building with high school students but will be kept separate from them and form the Morrisville Intermediate School. Grades nine through 12 will be called Morrisville High School and remain in separate hallways. Grades four through six will also be kept apart from grades seven and eight. Those in grades pre-kindergarten to three will be at Grandview Elementary School.
Reiter's future will be determined at some later point based on the results of an ongoing engineering study, said board President William Hellmann. The school suffered a furnace explosion in December 2008. Though no one was hurt, the aged building's condition worsened, and children had to be moved to other schools.
The board also voted to accept a $444,000 bid by Architectural Window, one of four bids received on July 28 to replace all windows at Grandview. It also accepted a $17,000 option by the same firm to create new windows in large closets. Since some students from Reiter were moved into Grandview, the district has been trying to expand possible instructional spaces in the school.
Additionally, the board accepted a $43,700 bid to remove asbestos located in the caulking and glazing of the windows.
Further planned renovations for Grandview include upgrades to mechanical systems and more door replacements.
Before the meeting ended, board member John Buckman asked for two more items in light of recent vandalism to the high school during its summer renovation. Vandals crashed a truck into a door at the back of the school, ripping up a copy of renovation plans and throwing around the contents of the maintenance room. Police are investigating the incident.
Board members voted 6-0 for requesting that Bucks County detectives join the investigation to uncover the perpetrators, and for hiring a private security firm to patrol the school.
Members Brenda Worob, Joseph Kemp and Robin Reithmeyer were absent.
