Renovations of DV and Jeff to begin

By TOM KANE

NARROWSBURG — The renovation of the Sullivan West/Delaware Valley and Sullivan West/Jeffersonville school buildings is expected to begin around August 5, according to representatives of the Turner Construction Company.

Scott Bridie of Turner informed the board on June 20 that bids for the renovation are expected to be opened on July 9. “Bids will be awarded about one week later,” Bridie said.

At the meeting, board members chose the materials to be used in the new high school building’s facing. The choices were a block-type of stone and a more conventional brick, slightly longer than the brick seen on most buildings.

The vote was in favor of the block-type stone that is commonly seen on Wal-Mart buildings.

Originally, the group had chosen brick at an earlier meeting. Hillier, the project’s architects, and Turner both recommended brick. Board members who changed their minds said they liked the colors of the blocks better than the brick.

In other board matters, Bridie informed the board of a concern that was rising around the new drainage system being installed at the Narrowsburg School.

There has been a long-standing problem with drainage from the school entering the cellars of surrounding homes. The new system is intended to eliminate that problem, but it has given rise to another problem. “The town’s drainage system is old and may not be adequate to handle the flow from the school,” Bridie said.

The Town of Tusten is asking the school to help defray the cost of putting in a new town system. School officials say, however, that they cannot put money into something that they don’t own.

There was a similar problem when the new high school building’s sewage system was to enter an old, inadequate system that existed in the Town of Cochecton.

School officials and town officials are attempting to work out a solution.