New roof for Hunting Hills top priority for Red Deer Public Schools
A new roof and modernization of Hunting Hills High School has now been identified as the number one capital priority for Red Deer Public Schools.
During Wednesday’s regular meeting, Board of Trustees approved the resubmission of the District’s Three Year Capital Plan which also includes several other capital needs.
Superintendent Stu Henry says concerns with the school’s roof leaking over the last few years led them to investigate the issue through a recent scoping project.
“When they came back with the estimates, they believe it will be in the neighbourhood of $7 million to replace all the roofing and some of the other systems that are up underneath the roof,” he explains. “Being that that’s one of our heaviest utilized buildings at 98 per cent utilization rate, we really felt that that has to be our top priority right now, so we’ve resubmitted our Capital Plan to put Hunting Hills as our top priority.”