Construction has begun on the first wave of projects in the Manhasset School District’s $22.6 million capital plan, while plans for work slated to take place next year have been submitted to the state Department of Education for approval, district officials said Tuesday.
“We haven’t had any surprises yet,” district architect John Grillo said.
The summer work has consisted primarily of pouring concrete foundations and repairing drainage systems at Shelter Rock and Munsey Park elementary schools and Memorial Field, as well as the early stages of a new bathroom facility at the field and the conversion of the district’s bus garage into a new central administration office.
Manhasset School Superintendent Charles Cardillo said district administration had conducted regular meetings and site visits with Grillo, facilities director Armand Markarian and project engineers detailing the work.
More intensive work is set to take place in 2016 and 2017, including classroom upgrades at all three schools.
Grillo said drainage to a playground at Shelter Rock has completed, and safety surfaces would be installed within the next week.
In the next two weeks, Grillo said wall pads at Munsey Park and Shelter Rock’s gymnasiums would be replaced and the wall partitions there would be removed. Partitions would be replaced by moveable wall curtains.
At Munsey Park, two old sheds on campus have been completely removed, and Grillo said metal studs for replacement facilities would be installed in the next week.
At Memorial Field, where the surfaces of the district’s tennis courts have been cleared, Grillo said the next stage would be the completion of a retaining wall and the replacement of trench drains that collect water.
“There will be no more standing water, ever,” he said.
By mid fall, Memorial Field’s bathroom facility — designed as a smaller version of the snack bar at the Manhasset Secondary School’s athletics complex — should also be completed, Grillo said.
Once the foundation dries, Grillo said concrete blocks would be installed and then workers would construct the roof.
