The finish on the floor at the Antrim Community Memorial Gymnasium is peeling and needs to be fixed, ConVal school board members were told.
Business Administrator Marian Alese said she received an invoice from the town of Antrim that the project is expected to cost $14,000, of which the school district was told it was responsible to pay half.
The gym is the town’s property, but has a lease agreement with the school district.
“Both parties have to agree and I don’t know if we’ve agreed,” Alese said about the invoice.
Antrim school board member Rich Cahoon said he recently walked across the gym floor and it felt like he was moving on a 100-year old barn floor.
The floor has give to it and is creaky.
“I want to know how long it will be before we need to replace the whole thing?” Cahoon said.
“I would hate to spend $14,000 to fix this issue and then have to replace the whole thing.”
Antrim Select Board member Bob Edwards said he agreed.
“The integrity of the floor should be looked at rather than just a Band-Aid approach,” Edwards said.
He said he would discuss the matter with the town administrator and other Select Board members to devise a way to move forward.
Recreation Director Celeste Lunetta said the town had planned to repair the gym floor over Thanksgiving break. Now, she said, the status of the project is undetermined.
A community conversation between ConVal staff and parents in Dublin regarding consolidation of the town’s fifth grade class was held recently.
Dublin Consolidated School is the only elementary school in the district that has, in the past, retained its fifth grade class instead of sending them off to middle school.
This year the students are attending South Meadow School.
Superintendent Kimberly Saunders said the conversation examined the benefits and drawbacks of holding fifth grade classes in Dublin as opposed to permenantly moving those classes over to SMS.
Saunders said a summary of that meeting would be presented in full in the future.
Another conversation is scheduled to take place Dec. 5 at the Greenfield Elementary School at 6:30 p.m.
Saunders said the conversation is geared toward talking to parents about middle school.