The North Zulch ISD facilities committee discussed further plans to remodel their elementary school and surrounding areas during a meeting in the school cafeteria Monday that lasted nearly two hours. The committee will meet again Feb. 2 to continue discussions and community members are encouraged to attend.

“We will be breaking down numbers as far as what we are looking at financially (at the Feb. 2 meeting),” said NZISD Superintendent Alan Andrus. “Also, we will have some drawings of potential plans for the corridor that we are connecting!’

The impending improvements include extending the back of the high school to meet the elementary, which would establish a corridor and keep students indoors during passing periods, adding more classrooms and remodeling the inside of the elementary gYm.

The committee established a list of proposed renovations they viewed as the most important. As well as the improvements mentioned above, the list included a possible indoor transportation maintenance area as well as improving drainage in the elementary parking lot.

The project will be done through Gallagher Construction and Billy Ballow of Goodwin-Lasiter-Strong Architecture. Both firms had representatives at Monday’s meeting.

Both firms also had representatives at the NZISD school board’s monthly meeting for January Thursday. The lengthy discussion included presentations from Robert Jolly of Gallagher Construction as well as Ballow.

Jolly explained the benefits of a CMa construction contract opposed to a CMAR contract, which gives the district a louder voice during the bidding process.

Ballow examined the property prior to the meeting and touched on some of the specifics the overall project would entail.

Roughly 20 community members attended the meeting at the NZISD cafeteria Monday. The top priorities for the project were ranked but final decisions have not yet been made. All are welcomed back Feb. 2.