Work Underway on RVC School Improvement Project

It’s been less than three months since Rockville Centre residents passed a $45.9 million school improvement bond and changes are already starting to take place throughout the school district.

A construction manager, who will oversee a majority of the bond improvements, will be “on board shortly,” according to Assistant Superintendent for Business and Personnel Robert Bartels.

Bartels said having the construction manager will go a long way in expediting the process and making sure that the plans and designs for the major projects are sent to the state on time.

While work on some of the larger projects will have to wait on state approval -- approximately seven months -- work on smaller capital projects has already begun.

A work schedule is in place for the high school bleachers and the gym floor. The old bleachers will begin to come out Monday, while the floor will be restriped and refinished. Both projects have a completion date of July 17.

The doors to the Covert Elementary School auditorium have also been replaced.

Bartels said that there have been minor tweaks to a few of the projects within the bond, but nothing major has been changed.

Rockville Centre Board of Education President Liz Dion told Patch in March that the district would like to have all of the construction completed by the summer of 2016.