CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state School Building Authority voted Monday to allocate more than $5.1 million in improvement projects in nine counties including $1 million for a project in Fayette County.
The money, which comes under the SBA’s Major Improvement Projects category, includes $86,000 given back to the SBA in recent months from counties that could not pass a school bond issue to go with the funding.
The $1 million Fayette County project will finance the construction of of six new classrooms that will convert the current Fayette County High School into the new Fayette PreK-8 school.
Fayette County school officials told the SBA staff without the project, the county “would be in default of their $11 million lease-purchase loan.”
The project is the final project needed to complete the first phase of Fayette County’s school facilities plan approved in 2016.
Other funding and projects approved Monday include:
Logan County– $800,000 renovations at West Chapmanville Elementary School
Monroe County– $577,709 renovations to James Monroe High School
Berkeley County– $900,000 classroom addition at Orchard View Intermediate School
Randolph County– $300,000 HVAC improvements at Coalton Elementary School
Wyoming County– $389,317 window and door replacement at Wyoming Career and Technical Center
Pocahontas County– $496,517 renovations to Greenbank Elementary/Middle School.
Cabell County– $256,053 safe schools entrance renovations at Altizer Elementary School and Spring Hill Elementary School
Wayne County– $386,238 HVAC improvements at 12 schools throughout the county
Twenty-two counties in all sought the funding.
Also on Monday, the SBA approved approved changes in Comprehensive Education Facilities Plans for Cabell, Monongalia, Randolph, Roane-Jackson and Wirt counties.
The next SBA meeting is set for Sept. 17.