Kenneth Brooks report
Excerpt
Kenneth Brooks, a consultant from Lancaster, Ky., presented his 48-page report Thursday as a complement to a study by Mt. Lebanon architects Valentour English Bodnar & Howell.
The architects studied the elementary schools, some more than 70 years old, and the high school.
They estimated the district would need to spend about $29 million to renovate the elementary schools to repair infrastructure and such safety items as electrical wiring, lighting, heating, ventilation and air conditioning, plus eliminate such hazardous materials as asbestos.
They estimated it would cost about the same to update the high school.
The district spent about $30,000 on Brooks’ study, hoping to see how the facilities could be improved to fit with the district’s educational program.
(Emphasis mine.)
Source: Mt. Lebanon school upgrades could cost close to $60 million, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 21 September, 2001. This article summarizes Brooks’s presentation of his 48-page report to the school board on Thursday, 6 September, 2001.
Notes
Brooks estimated the cost to “update the high school”: $30 million.
The district spent about $30,000 on Brooks’s study.
Report
The MLAO has scanned a copy of the report by Kenneth Brooks and Associates, obtained by Right-to-Know request, and hereby made available to the public:
- Elementary Schools and High School Master Facilities Planning: Mt. Lebanon Schools, Kenneth Brooks and Associates, October 2001.
- Cost Estimates, Valentour English Bodnar & Howell, October 17, 2001.
