By CRISTINA JANNEY
Hays Post

The Hays USD 489 school board will hear an update tonight on the $1.76 million renovation to the Oak Park Medical Complex.

The complex is being renovated for use by Early Childhood Connections.

The school district purchased the complex for $2 million, which will be paid for through a lease agreement out of capital outlay funds. The district received a $1.47 million federal grant and a $500,000 donation from HaysMed, the primary owner of the complex before it was sold, for the renovations.

The district hopes to have the facility open sometime this fall.

The board also is set to vote on two other capital projects on which work would be done this summer.

Members are expected to vote on a re-keying all the doors at Hays High School, Hays Middle School, Roosevelt Elementary and the new Early Childhood Connections building.

The district has received at $57,000 matching grant to replace interior door locks. The district’s match for the project will be $53,000.

Rusty Lindsay, buildings and grounds director, said the current lock system is no longer secure because keys can be easily duplicated.

The other project is to replace concrete in the Hays High School Parking lot. The district is scheduled to do a portion of the parking lot each year until all of the concrete has been replaced. This year’s low bid was for $96,600 from Brian’s Concrete Services of Hays.

In other business, the board will

• Hear a Lincoln Elementary School Site Council presentation
• Vote on revisions to the Classified Handbook
• Vote on board policy revisions
• Vote on the 2019-20 board meeting calendar
• Hear a report on workers compensation and cyber liability insurance
• Hear a report on property and casualty insurance
• Chris Hipp, director of the West Central Kansas Special Education Cooperative, will present the district assessment recommendation