CHENEY – The Cheney School District (CSD) is preparing for a slew of renovations and repairs to schools all over the district. Board members met on April 13 to discuss the Information and Condition of Schools (ICOS) capital project with incoming maintenance and operations manager Rich Brown at the April 13 board meeting. Brown is replacing Jeff McClure who is retiring at the end of the month. His first day on the job is May 1.
The ICOS reports are a series of reports that rates each school’s condition based on a 30-year lifespan. When facilities are added, renovated, or repaired, the ICOS scores increase. When facilities are left outdated or in disrepair, they can negatively impact the ICOS scores.
The CSD maintenance and operations manager conducts the ICOS surveys every year. Every fifth year, the school district is required to contract a third party to conduct the ICOS survey.
The ICOS scores for schools around the district are as follows:
Betz Elementary – 77.97 percent
Cheney High School 68.4 percent
Cheney Middle School – 87.6 percent
Salnave Elementary – 78.39 percent
Snowdon Elementary – 90.98 percent
Sunset Elementary – 77.53 percent
Westwood Middle School – 87.17 percent
Windsor Elementary – 77.12 percent
“At the 10 year mark schools should be between 76 and 80 percent, so we’re sitting right where they think they should be,” Brown said regarding the middle and elementary schools specifically.
Buildings like Cheney High School (CHS) scored much lower than other schools because its systems and facilities being graded were as old as 1992. CHS needs several sections of the roof replaced which brought its condition score way down.
“At the high school we have some sections that need help” Brown said. “Specifically which ones those are—I’m gonna say—sections around the art room, the home-ec room—anywhere we don’t have the slope-steel roof.”
Brown iterated that any roof that is sloped and made with metal or asphalt is in good shape while any flat roofs that were popular iduring the ‘70s and ‘80s are a “constant battle” to keep up to date.
The capital projects update is a list of major renovations that need to be completed around the school district to keep the facilities up to date. These kinds of renovations will also raise the building’s ICOS score during the next year’s condition survey. Capital projects update include resurfacing the Salnave tennis courts, creating access to the CHS soccer field, refinishing the Hatch Gym floor, installing/replacing bleachers in the auxiliary and Hatch gymnasiums, a lighting retrofit in the main gym and Hatch Gym, and paint steel beams at Cheney Middle School (CMS) and Westwood Middle School (WMS) this summer.
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