Board members get look at school

    Monday, Clear Lake School Board members toured construction of an addition at Clear Creek Elementary School which will house first and second graders next school year.
    Principal Mike Barkley said work was slowed by rainy weather last month, but the project remains on schedule. The goal is to have the addition enclosed by Nov. 1 so that interior work can take place throughout the winter.
    Metal decking is being installed over the new classrooms and cement floors are being poured in the academic addition and are about 60 percent complete.  The project is very similar to the existing classrooms in the school, which use a pod system.   Barkley said once the academic portion of the project is roofed, Dean Snyder Construction crews will move to the lunch room addition.  Footings will soon be poured for that area, with block work to follow.
    The newly relocated and expanded playground at the school was opened Friday and is being enjoyed by all the students, Barkley reported.  Play space will be enhanced more later, as backstops are installed at fields.
    Barkley, Superintendent Dwight Pierson and board members also stopped in the Clear Creek gymnasium to examine the wood flooring.  As a result of the construction project, water flowed onto the gym floor when 10-inches of rain fell on Clear Lake in August.  Early indications are that the flooring was dried properly and no sustainable damage occurred.
    Clear Lake students in grades one to five will attend classes at Clear Creek next fall.  Lincoln School will be closed.