Published: November 24, 2009 03:45 pm      

East Bernstadt School approves bid on parent drop-off loop

The East Bernstadt Independent School Board adopted a resolution Nov. 12 authorizing the East Bernstadt District Finance Corporation to issue $200,000 in revenue bonds to construct a parent drop-off loop and parking lot.

The board also approved a construction bid for the drop-off loop and parking lot for $399,515.

“That’s something that is badly needed,” Superintendent Homer Radford said. “This is going to allow parents to pull off School Street, drop their children off on a canopy-covered sidewalk and then they can pull back onto the street and proceed. The way our setup is now, a lot of parents have to park at First Baptist Church (East Bernstadt). They have been wonderful. They have provided us with parking space over there. Once this is done, it will eliminate children having to cross the street morning and afternoon. In the afternoon, there will be a lot of parking and stack-up room for parents who are waiting on their children. The street will not be blocked and congested like it has been.”

In other business, the board:

• Approved a revised BG1 form for the parking lot. “The revisions on this BG1 form mainly reflected that we would bond $200,000 and pay the rest of the cost out of the building fund,” Radford said.

• Approved a construction bid to set up a two-classroom modular unit for $28,920. “We had to make some general revisions to the BG1 form for that to send to Frankfort for their approval to proceed with the project,” Radford said.

• Approved to update the local facility planning committee.

• Approved for the board and the superintendent to attend the Kentucky School Board Winter Conference in Lexington and the Kentucky School Board Annual Conference in February in Louisville. “Basically this is where they pick up their training hours they are required to get from year to year,” Radford explained.

• Called a special meeting of the East Bernstadt Independent School District Finance Corporation. The officers were approved — Board Chairman Gene Allen is the president; Vice Board Chairman Jim Sutton is vice-president; Superintendent Homer Radford is secretary; school board members Robert Frost, Kip Jervis and Kenny Woodruff are the directors; and District Finance Officer Adam Hooker is the finance officer. After the Finance Corporation was called into session, they declared a resolution providing for the issuance of $200,000 in revenue bonds for the construction of the parent drop-off loop and parking lot. Those bonds will be sold through Ross Sinclair Finance Corporation.

The next meeting is Dec. 10 in the administration building.

Staff writer Carol Mills can be reached at cmills@sentinel-echo.com.