Yesterday (December 7), the Rocky View School Board adopted an Infrastructure Maintenance and Renewal (IMR) budget.

Associate superintendent Darrell Couture explained to the board that there are four IMR priorities. The funds are meant to address health and safety, priority building life cycle items, functional modernization to accommodate students and program enhancements.

For the upcoming school year, Rocky View's IMR funding has increased by $882,208. Total IMR funding for the division is $5,681,093, almost 17 percent more than last year. With funds carried over from last year, Rocky View is working with a total budget of $8,550,676 and have allocated $8,991,500 towards IMR projects for the 2017-2018 school year.

Couture highlighted a number of this year's project. George McDougall will see a number of modernizations totaling $357,000. The majority of that will be directed to designs and the first phase of construction for a CTS area upgrade costing $300,000.

Airdrie Middle School will benefit from $340,000 to remove a cooling tower and replace a heat pump.

Bert Church is scheduled for two projects to convert a science classroom into a cosmetology classroom and to ensure all doors meet fire department requirements. Those projects will cost a combined $112,000.

Projects at Cochrane High School to replace variable air volume HVAC boxes in the library wing and to replace a make up air unit will cost a total of $165,000.

A majority of the budget will be devoted to phase one of modernizations to the interior of Indus School. That will cost $2,750,000.

The division will also devote money to projects involving schools around the Rocky View. $300,000 will be spent as the division continues to convert to LED lighting in all the schools. For the first time, Rocky View will also do radon testing and studies starting with Cochrane schools. That will eat up $50,000 of the budget.

 

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