By Gary Lloyd
The Trussville City Board of Education last week approved access control systems for the Paine campus and Hewitt-Trussville Middle School.
Materials are being purchased from Building Specialties, and Trussville City Schools will perform the labor. The cost for materials is $13,394.
The access control system is a key card/swipe card system in which faculty and staff will swipe a card to enter the building.
The system is expected to be in place at the Paine campus and Hewitt-Trussville Middle School for the 2013-2014 school year. The school system is working toward implementing the same system for Hewitt-Trussville High School, but there are still logistics to work out for that school. It is not expected to have an access control system in place for the beginning of the school year.
The board of education last week also approved Lathan and Associates as the architects for the Paine Primary School portables project. Trussville City Schools Superintendent Pattie Neill said the tentative cost for the project is set at $49,999 or less.
The board earlier this month approved of adding two more portable classrooms at the school. The portables will be a project this summer, and are being added due to student enrollment.
Paine Primary School this year had five portable classrooms. The school has a capacity of 774 students but housed 913 this school year. There are eight portables at Paine Intermediate School. The school has a capacity of 785 students but housed 941.
The two Paine schools housed 1,812 students this school year despite a two-school capacity of 1,559.
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