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Earlier
this month the Wake County Board of
Education agreed to continue its lease
of land at the DuBois Center for a
modular school which will be the
ninth-grade center for Wake Forest-Rolesville
High School beginning this fall.
Since the fall of 2005, the
6.22 acres have held the Forest Pines
Elementary, which will move to its
permanent site this fall.
The new lease agreement is
for five years beginning Aug. 1, 2007,
and ending June 30, 2012, with an option
to renew the lease for up to five years,
during which the payments would increase
by 3 percent each year.
The new lease is for $37,800
a year if the center’s gym is not used,
$45,570 if it is used.
Lawrence Eugene Perry,
president of the National Alumni
Association of DuBois High School which
owns the campus, said Tuesday night the
alumni board has not yet signed the
lease but he expects it to happen soon.
Perry also said they are now
preparing bids for repairs at the gym.
The town will use funds left from a
recreation bond to pay for the repairs.
The lease agreement will
allow the alumni association, which
purchased the campus from the school
system in 1998, to pay off the remaining
mortgage debt of $52,000. The school
system will credit $26,000 of the lease
payment toward the mortgage for two
years, then pay the alumni association
the entire amount for the remaining
years.
In other school board action
affecting construction of local schools,
the board named a construction materials
testing consultant for Heritage High
School and agreed to a change order for
playground equipment for Sanford Creek
Elementary in Rolesville.
Heritage High’s total
construction budget is $62,568,407. That
includes a little over $3 million from
the Town of Wake Forest and the Wake
County Parks and Recreation Department
for grading and to build additional ball
fields and upgrade the school’s ball
fields.
The playground equipment
will cost $118,124 and is available in
the total project budget of $19 million.
Sanford Creek will open this fall. |
