The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-11-22
CONTRACTS LET TUESDAY
FOR KITTY HAWK SCHOOL
THAT WILL COST $500, S57.2S
District Bond Funds Will Provide Major Portion
OF Financing for New Eight Classroom EIemen-
tary School Plant; County Board Also Provides
for Auditorium at New Manteo Hiqh School.


the construction of a new Kitty
Hawk Elementary School to re-
place the present obsolete building
at Kitty Hawk was approved by
the Dare County Board of Educa-
ton in a meeting held Tuesday
afternoon in Manteo. Low bids
for the project totaled 5000, 857.28,
including architects fees.
The board also provided for re-
instatement of an auditorium in
contracts for the construction of
the new Manteo High School now
being built; this was in accordance
with a previous decision of the
board to reinstate the auditorium
if sufficient funds We're available
after the awarding of contracts for
the Kitty Hawk project.
The new Kitty Hawk facility
will be located on a new site at
the intersection of Highway 1853
and the old road to Duck. The
specifications include 8 classrooms,
a library, a health clinic room, a
teachers room, an administrative
office, 2 adult toilets and pupil
toilets lin addition to which 2 pri-
mary classrooms will have their
own connecting toilets), an audi
forum or multi-purpose room, a
lunchroom and kitchen, and a
workroom and storage rooms. Cir
culating hot-water heating will be
utilized. The contracts include in
stallation of all major kitchen
equipment.
The successful bidders and their
bids We're: general contract, Frank
Mccall of Drexel, $141,8OO; heat
ing, ]. T. Pearson Co. of New
Bern, $1S,S68; plumbing, j. B.
Cartwright Plumbing and Heating
Co. of Elizabeth City, $4,000; and
electrical, Dicks Electric Co. of
Wilson,, $12;S2o. The fee of the
architects, Burnett H. Stephens and
Robert H. Stephens of New Bern,
will be $11,369.28, six percent of
VIC wal VI JAAS OIlSs
In accordance with a suggestion
made at the meeting Tuesday by
John Cameron, head of the school
planning division of the State De-
partment of Public Instruction, the
school board agreed unanimously
upon the following breakdown of
the cost of the Kitty Hawk project:
~ $190,857.28 in district funds
derived from a bond issue, and (2)
$4,000 in state building funds al
lotted to Dare County. The deduc-
ton of these amounts left $7,3O6.-
81 available in district bond funds
which could be used only in the
Kitty Hawk district, and Ssh, 296.1S
in state building funds which could
be used in any of the county
schools. From these state funds,
the board agreed to the use of
SOL, 171.50 toward the completion
of the Manteo project, thus leaving
a balance of $14,124.63 in state
money as cushion fund. From
these remaining funds, the board
has pledged to pay the entire
costs of putting down well at the
new Kitty Hawk site and to pay
for completely equipping the Kitty
Hawk school.
The revision of the contracts for
the Manteo project included $42,-
16l for the auditorium, 81, 45O for
the installation of rubber mating
in the lobby of the gymnasium
and inside the entrances to the
school, and Saga for equipment
listed under Group / in the con-
tract, primarily student lockers and
gymnasium back boards, plus an
additional $2,S96.50 architects fee.
According to Mrs. Mary L. Evans,
county superintendent, an addition
al $4,000 worth Of equipment
will be needed to completely outfit
the new Manteo High School.
These items not included in the
contracts are ones which may be
easily purchased and installed as
funds become available at any time
after the completion Of the build
ing; included are auditorium seats.
gymnasium bleachers, laboratory
equipment, industrial arts equip
ment, desks, tables, and other fur
niture and fixtures.
A delegation of Kitty Hawk pa-
irons attended the meeting and
expressed dissatisfaction with some
of the boards action. 1t was point
ed out that the high school pupils
had all been sent to Manteo des-
pite the objection of the people Of
Kitty Hawk, and that when the
Kitty Hawk district approved the
issuance Of 100000 IN school
bonds il was with the view that
Kitty Hawk would retain It's high
school. Since the board had earlier
promised the use Of about $1,000
N state funds for the new Kitty
Hawk school, the opinion was
voiced that the Kitty Hawk ais
trict was being made ID absorb 4
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