Class of ‘17 updates school board on track project grant

Garth Meyer, Gazette Reporter | Mar 30, 20160

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Colfax class of 17

Juniors at Colfax High School present an update Monday night to the school board on their class project.

Members of the Colfax High class of 2017 stood before the school board Monday night to give an update on its application for a county .09 grant for restrooms at the school’s athletic complex.

The class of 2017 has worked with the city for the past two years in an effort to fund a new restroom facility to serve the football field/track complex, as well as Schmuck Park.

Since funding has already been raised and committed to building the new restrooms and to replace the track this summer, the .09 grant would allow the school district to use funds now tagged for the restrooms to pay for further plans for the inside of the track. Those items are now deemed to be done as money allows.

“Everything that we raise, it stays and gets reinvested back into the complex,” said Superintendent Jerry Pugh.

The district is now in the process of going out to bid on the track and restroom complex. An April 13 meeting is set for contractors to walk-through the site followed by the bid deadline of April 19.

The school board aims to make their choice at a regular meeting the following week.

Alternative items on the bid call include re-working the long jump and shotput pits, moving the pole vault area and installing an ADA ramp and fencing. These items, if and when they get done, would aid in the hopes that Colfax will host an annual track invitational meet.

The class of 2017 has worked on their restrooms grant application as part of Jennifer Morris’ government and civics class.

The application was due Wednesday.

“We’re not bursting at the seams with dollars,” Pugh said. “This grant would allow us to take (the district’s) money out of the bathroom and put it into the field events. We really, really, really want to do the field events, so we can host an invitational. Our focus is what’s good for kids and what’s good for Colfax.”