EBON JUNCTION, Mich. (WZMQ) – Superior Central Schools is getting ready to make some major improvements over the summer.
“This summer we’re doing new science classrooms in the middle school and high school, so we’ll be redoing the gas and the water, the cabinetry, the floor, the ceilings, so whole new science labs for our middle school and high schoolers,” said Superior Central Superintendent Bill Valima. “We’re also putting in a new section of flooring throughout the elementary school.”
Valima said the current science labs are outdated and in dire need of an update.
“The science labs that we’re looking at now are the original late 80s early 90s construction,” said Valima. “So the gas fixtures, the water fixtures, those things start to get dated and start to not work and you want everything to be in working order so we thought that was important.”
According to Valima, this year’s projects are also drawing from last year’s sinking fund due to their size.
“Last year we didn’t complete any sinking fund projects in the summer,” said Valima. “We rolled that into this year’s so that we could do those science labs because we knew they were going to be over budget so we did science labs this year and the floors to kind of pull these last two years together.”
The sinking fund was originally passed in 2013 and renewed in 2023 and Valima said in the 12 years it’s had a major impact.
“We’ve done new classrooms throughout the elementary, we’ve redone our gym, new bleachers, new flooring, we’ve done electrical work, we’ve done some septic work,” said Valima. “All things that are possible because we have that sinking fund.”
Superior Central will also continue fundraising for its playground project into the summer.
