Abstracts of Funded Projects---Fiscal Year 2002/3

Impact Aid Discretionary Construction Grant Program

**CFDA: 84.041C**

**Taholah School District \# 77 (57-WA-1002)**

**600 Chitwin Drive**

**P.O. Box 249**

# Taholah, Washington 98587

Project Director: Barbara A. Capoeman

360/275-4729

<bcapoeman@taholah.k12.wa.us>

Funding: \$1,378,124

The Taholah School District will address several conditions that affect
the health and safety of students and staff in the Taholah School, which
enrolls 230 children of the Quinault Nation in grades K through 12. The
project will repair the building's failing roof, replace and upgrade the
fire safety system, correct electrical system deficiencies, and replace
the facility's heating system.

**Browning Elementary School District (36-MT-0812)**

**Box 61**

# Browning, Montana 59417

Project Director: William S. Juneau

406/338-2715

<stanj@bps.k12.mt.us>

Funding: \$2,152,120

The Browning Elementary School District will build a new elementary
school facility to replace the Babb Elementary School, which currently
enrolls 34 children of the Blackfeet Reservation in grades K through 6.
The existing Babb School, built in 1903, suffers from a series of
emergency conditions including an inadequate sewage system, failure to
meet handicapped accessibility requirements, failure to meet electrical
and plumbing codes, and a condemned basement and foundation in the main
building.

**Bering Strait School District (11-AK-2802)**

**P.O. Box 225**

**Unalakleet, Alaska 99684**

Project Director: Kerry Jarrell

907/624-4268

<kjarrell@bssd.org>

Funding: \$5,371,575

The Bering Strait School District will replace the Brevig Mission
School, which currently enrolls 114 Alaska Native students in grades K
through 12. Extreme overcrowding in the current school and the use of
modular classrooms physically separated from the main building causes
serious health, hygiene and safety issues for students and staff during
extreme winter weather conditions.

**Wyola Elementary School District (36-MT-1014)**

**P.O. Box 66**

**Wyola, Montana 59089**

Project Director: Wanda Johnston

406/343-2722

<officewyola@yahoo.com>

Funding: Fire Safety System \$18,000

> Gymnasium Floor \$86,250

The Wyola Elementary School District will correct two emergency
conditions in the Wyola Elementary School, which enrolls 49 children of
the Crow Indian Reservation in grades K through 8. The projects will
replace a faulty fire safety system and eliminate degraded asbestos
floor tiles in the gymnasium.

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# Rocky Boy Elementary School District (36-MT-2206)

# RR #1 Box 620

**Box Elder, Montana 59521**

Project Director: Sandra Murie

406/395-4291

<muries@montanavision.net>

Funding: \$1,153,800

The Rocky Boy Elementary School District will address health and safety
deficiencies in the Rocky Boy Elementary School, which enrolls 339
children of the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation in grades K through 8. The
project will replace the roof, replace damaged interior ceilings and
upgrade the electrical and fire safety systems to bring them to code.

**Zuni Public Schools (41-NM-3201)**

**P.O. Box Drawer A, 22 Saint Anthony Drive**

**Zuni, New Mexico 87327**

Project Director: David Maestas

505/782-5511

<dmaest@zuni.k12.nm.us>

Funding: \$2,012,879

The Zuni Public Schools will address multiple emergency repair needs in
the Zuni Middle School, which enrolls 387 children of the Zuni
Reservation. The project will install a new fire alarm and suppression
system and improve the heating, ventilation, and cooling system to
address health issues that result from inadequate heating and cooling.
The project will also repair a portion of the facility's roof.

**Dahlonegah Elementary School District (46-OK-0816)**

**Route 1 Box 1795**

**Stilwell, Oklahoma 74960**

Project Director: Jeff Limore

918/696-7807

<jtlimore@dahlonegah.k12.ok.us>

Funding: \$536,100

The Dahlonegah Elementary School District will repair a faulty roof,
remove asbestos tiles, and address heating, ventilation, and cooling and
electrical deficiencies in the Dahlonegah Elementary School, which
enrolls 97 children.

**Box Elder Elementary School (36-MT-0907)**

**P.O. Box 205**

**Box Elder, Montana 59521**

Project Director: Robert A. Heppner

406/352-4195

<superhepp@yahoo.com>

Funding: \$1,646,600

The Box Elder Elementary School District will add eight classrooms of
instructional space to Box Elder Elementary School, which enrolls 366
students in grades K through 8, mostly from the Rocky Boy Indian
Reservation. Currently, students are housed in severely inadequate
temporary buildings that do not meet fire safety standards and
handicapped accessibility requirements.

**Hays/Lodge Pole School District 50 (36-MT-4403)**

**P.O. Box 110**

**Hays, Montana 59527**

Project Director: Violet Crasco

406/673-3121

<nativevisions@yahoo.com>

Funding: \$3,692,918

The Hays/Lodge Pole School District will complete construction of a
replacement elementary school. The existing facility, Lodge Pole
Elementary School, enrolls 127 children from the Fort Belknap Indian
Reservation and has many health and safety issues including inadequate
sewer and plumbing systems, faulty electrical wiring, and a failing roof
and heating, ventilation, and cooling system.

**Yukon-Koyukuk School District (11-AK-2812)**

**4762 Old Airport Way**

**Fairbanks, Alaska 99709**

Project Director: Gale Bourne

907/374-9414

<gbourne@yksd.com>

Funding: Johnny Oldman School \$417,707

Andrew K. Demoski School \$547,827

Jimmy Huntington School \$810,806

Allakaket School [\$627,598]{.underline}

> Total \$2,403,938

The Yukon-Koyukuk School District will address heating issues in four of
their facilities by repairing and in some cases replacing aging boiler
systems prone to fail. These schools have a combined enrollment of 239
Alaska Native children.

**Kenwood School District \# 30 of Delaware County (46-OK-1018)**

**Route 1, Box 179**

**Salina, Oklahoma 74365**

Project Director: Kenneth Limore

918/434-5799

<klimore@ssrelco.com>

Funding: \$564,136

The Kenwood School District will address several emergency conditions in
the Kenwood School, which enrolls 117 children. The project will replace
the school's roof and ceilings, which have structural deficiencies. The
project will also install a fire suppression sprinkler system, improve
the electrical system to meet codes and upgrade the heating,
ventilation, and cooling system.

# Fort Yates Public School District #4 (44-ND-1417)

# 105 N. Agency Avenue

**P.O. Box 428**

**Fort Yates, North Dakota 58538**

Project Director: Clyde C. Naasz

701/854-3899

<Clyde.Naasz@sendit.nodak.edu>

Funding: \$4,583,796

The Fort Yates Public School District will construct a new middle school
facility to house children who are currently educated in obsolete wooden
and modular units. The new school will educate approximately 230
students on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.

**Wolf Point Elementary School District #45 (36-MT-1029)**

**220 4^th^ Avenue South**

**Wolf Point, Montana 59201**

Project Director: Andrew W. Holmlund

406/653-2361

<holmlund@wolfpoint.k12.mt.us>

Funding: Northside Elementary School \$17,021

Southside Elementary School [\$88,757]{.underline}

> Total \$105,778

The Wolf Point Elementary School District will remove and replace
deteriorated asbestos floor tiles in the Northside Elementary School,
which enrolls 223 children in grades 4 through 6. The School District
will also correct similar asbestos floor problems in the Southside
Elementary School, which enrolls 310 children in grades K through 3.

# Crown Charter School 

**P.O. Box 363**

**Litchfield Park, Arizona 85340**

Project Director: James Shade

623/535-9300

<crowncharter4u@aol.com>

Funding: \$186,968

The Crown Charter School will acquire and install modular restroom
facilities that will permit the school to provide sufficient safely
accessible restrooms for its students. Currently, 130 students attend
the Crown Charter School; many of these children are dependents of
military personnel posted at Luke Air Force Base.

**Brockton High School District 55F (36-MT-1802)**

**P.O. Box 198**

**Brockton, Montana 59213**

Project Director: Bernard Lambert

406/786-3311

<bosslambert@hotmail.com>

Funding: \$568,161

The Brockton High School District will repair a damaged roof for
Brockton High School and replace the school's aged heating, ventilation,
and cooling system. Brockton High School enrolls 62 children of the Fort
Peck Indian Reservation.

**Harlem Elementary School District \# 12 (36-MT-0717)**

**P.O. Box 339**

**Harlem, Montana 59526**

Project Director: M. Neil Terhune

406/353-2289

Funding: \$468,612

The Harlem Elementary School District will address emergency needs in
Harlem Elementary School with a range of projects including mold and
asbestos abatement, improving the heating, ventilation, and cooling
system, upgrading the fire alarm system, and increasing accessibility to
meet handicapped accessibility requirements. Harlem Elementary School
enrolls 329 children of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation.

**Dixon School District #9 (36-MT-1117)**

**P.O. Box 10**

**Dixon, Montana 59831**

Project Director: Mark Faroni

406/246-3566

<mfaroni@blackfoot.net>

Funding: \$60,100

The Dixon School District will address needs in the Dixon School, which
enrolls 59 children of the Flathead Reservation. The project repairs
broken and deteriorated glass panes, improves the boiler room's
ventilation system, repairs crumbling stairways, and installs handrails
along elevated surfaces.