{"id":86761,"date":"2025-02-06T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/news\/work-soon-to-begin-on-kenai-middle-security-upgrades\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T06:30:00","slug":"work-soon-to-begin-on-kenai-middle-security-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/2025\/02\/06\/work-soon-to-begin-on-kenai-middle-security-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Work soon to begin on Kenai Middle security upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Construction will start soon on the security upgrades for Kenai Middle School. Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Peter Micciche on Jan. 6 authorized a $246,000 contract to Anchorage-based Nvision Architecture to complete the work.<\/p>\n<p>During a meeting of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District&rsquo;s Board of Education on Monday, Feb. 3, Superintendent Clayton Holland said Nvision had held a kickoff meeting on Jan. 30, and is preparing to move forward.<\/p>\n<p>Per previous Clarion reporting, the Kenai Middle School security upgrades are among several key KPBSD maintenance projects included in a bond approved by borough voters in October 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The project is set to reorganize Kenai Middle&rsquo;s front entrance and offices, expand the school&rsquo;s kitchen space and make student pickup and drop-off more efficient. Because the school&rsquo;s office is presently located to the right and down the hall from the building entrance, school administrators said it&rsquo;s possible for people to gain entry to the school without office staff immediately knowing.<\/p>\n<p>Principal Vaughn Dosko told the Clarion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/news\/critical-needs-security-concerns-and-lunch-lines\/\" target=\"_blank\">in September 2022<\/a> that the design was a quirk of the school&rsquo;s early 1970s design. He said the security upgrade was also a priority of his predecessor, Paul Sorenson.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not common to walk into a school and not see the office,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kenai Middle&rsquo;s security upgrades are only the third project included in the bond package to get underway. In 2024, a new football field was installed at Seward High School and a new concessions stand was built at Kenai Central High School.<\/p>\n<p>Other projects, including reconstruction of Soldotna Elementary School, student drop-off improvements, a series of roof replacements and repairs to the front facade of Soldotna High School, have been delayed by increased costs.<\/p>\n<p>The borough <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/news\/contract-for-soldotna-school-consolidation-design-okd\/\" target=\"_blank\">in December<\/a> approved a nearly $400,000 contract with Anchorage-based MCG Explore Design to generate a design for consolidation of several Soldotna schools. The consolidation, if approved, would happen in lieu of the reconstruction of Soldotna Elementary, which borough leadership has said is unaffordable.<\/p>\n<p>Several projects, including the roof replacements, Homer High School entrance renovation and Soldotna High repairs, are expected to get underway this year. Borough Purchasing &#038; Contracting Director John Hedges told the KPBSD Board of Education and Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com\/news\/assembly-gets-update-on-2022-bond-package-projects\/\" target=\"_blank\">in September<\/a> that they were put on hold by a perceived shortage of available contractors &mdash; and would be released for bidding in the spring.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reach reporter Jake Dye at jacob.dye@cmg-northwest2.go-vip.net\/peninsulaclarion.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The security upgrades are among several key KPBSD maintenance projects included in a bond approved by borough voters in October 2022. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":86762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,811],"tags":[55,61,115,56,183],"class_list":["post-86761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-top-news","tag-kenai","tag-kenai-peninsula-borough","tag-kenai-peninsula-borough-school-district","tag-local-news","tag-schools"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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