Construction Begins on Portable Classrooms

Construction workers have spent the past week installing three new portable classrooms at . 

The three new portables were needed to accommodate the 83 students coming over from Dr. Oran A. Moser Elementary School, which was closed at the end of the school year. The portables will be used to accommodate one fourth grade and two fifth grade classes, principal John Colonghi said. 

Workers started site work immediately after school ended. The portables arrived on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week. And installation began on this past Thursday.

Colonghi is impressed with the portables and said one of the fifth grade rooms is the “biggest classroom space in the building.”

“I am very pleased with them,” Colonghi said.

The Town Council was recently informed that the Board of Education would be returning $177,000 in surplus funds to the town.

The town is using the $164,000 of the money toward installation of the portables at the request of the Board of Education, the schools Director of Finance Chuck Zettergren said.

The first lease payment of the recently acquired courier van will be paid with $5,500 of that remaining money, Zettergren said. The van is used to transport mail from the central office to the various schools.