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good afternoon my goodness there are so many things that are going on now we've shown you some of the construction pieces that are happening down at the high school right now I'm up at the football field and we have games that are already scheduled and they're going to be coming up on us very very quickly including if I'm not mistaken August 27th maybe a home date that we need to put it on our calendar but behind me what your Percy is we're unloading material and going into the multi-purpose building in the reason we're doing that is it we're getting ready to start on the walls and the bathrooms inside that we have been housing will be available with this football season but my hope and my goal was for this to be completed by the beginning of football season and if we hadn't run into some delays we would absolutely have gotten there but where about a month behind so I hope that you will be patient and understanding with us because construction rarely goes as planned this should be ready for bathroom use probably in October until then we've done everything that we can to dress up the bathrooms that we've been using up here during football games and other events and they'll be nicer to be in but they'll still be available to you like they have in the past October though we should be able to open those up now there's another piece so that I need for you to know about and that has to do with handicap parking and this will be available whenever we have our first game up here at the at the football stadium so I'm going to take a walk over behind the Multipurpose Building and the reason I'm going to do that is I want you to see kind of the traffic pattern for handicap parking it used to be over here kind of next to the fence and in this area but now we're going to come up come down this side of the Multipurpose Building and go down behind and let me show you where you're going to be able to park come with me it's so what I just done is walk-behind the Multipurpose Building and come over to the area that is right next to the king sessions stand in as a matter of fact of the bathrooms that I reference that will still be in place and ready for us to use and have actually been updated in some ways are right over there at the concession stand we've been using those for for 35 or 40 years now look where I am standing will be the handicap parking and we'll come back around the building and it will be indicated in Mark so that you will know how to place your cars we should be able to get anywhere from 8 to 10 cars in this area and leave this gate available so that if we need to get in and out we can still we can still access there another reason I really like this spot is because first of all it's flat paid level there is a gate for interest that is on the same level we probably won't ask you to come in through this gravel area instead we probably are going to ask you to come through where this gate is right here and the best thing about this to me is you won't have to travel as far to get from your car to get to the stands and I think that that is a benefit for anyone who is already I need the opportunity for handicap parking now our plan is absolutely to have all of this in place and ready for you at the at the first game and I really believe that we need to do that so I have move this to the top of our maintenance departments and they'll have this ready to go for you I'm at that time now what I really would like to do is right at this point shift back down to the high school and show you some some other things we've already spoken about tell you what's going on there and just remind you of what the traffic closed be like so if you'll give us just a second we'll transfer down there and we'll continue hang on here we go and so we're down at the front of the high school and we were in this area at one of our previous videos and I just want you to see that work going on have we've also already run into a snag and it has to do with getting some of the materials here that we need to complete this front project and because of that delay if this is not going to be anywhere near avail at the beginning of the school year on August 19th instead I will just use this road in order to get our buses and our staff to the other side of the campus like we told you last time remember oldest the buses in in the student issues largely are going to be on that side but the public route for our transportation is going to be on this side so let me take you back and show you what the traffic pattern is going to be for parent student drop-off and then that'll be about all that we need to share with you at this point so we'll come with me let's go look so if you look around and is as Joe pans around you'll see that we have shifted Arlo Haitian down to the place where the buses used to come out in the afternoon and this was the bus exit so that we could take them then up to Fontana Road by way of Bryson Branch Road this is going to become the new entrance way for parent drop-off I just want to remind you of that and you'll either come up Fontana or you'll come up Bryson Branch turn in here go up the road there will be a gate to fence gate that will keep you from going any farther and you'll have to turn right then exit backup on the Fontana Road this is parent drop-off for student drop-off just want to remind you but there's another piece behind me and I want you to see in that is we have started construction of a new parking area down here and if you'll look just beyond that telephone pole there is an entrance way that will be expanded just a little bit and this will be for student parking my understanding from Miss Blankenship irr principal at the high school senior parking is going to be up at the stadium there may be some additional parking up there for first come first serve basis but all other student parking is going to be right down here so please remember students on the first day of school you'll either need to come up Fontana Road and down through here and in or come up Bryson branch and turn left and go in we're putting all of these pieces in place so that we will make sure that our students are safe that our bus traffic is safe and everybody knows exactly how the traffic pattern is going to now there's one more thing students if I were you and I was yes I would say so how am I going to get up to the school there will be a walkway that goes up along that bank also that these folks that are putting in this parking area will put in for you and I'll take you right up there and then your interest will not be up there where the cafeteria is your intro I'll be down along the back of the building will cover that some more later as we get the fencing in place that way we can kind of walk it and you'll see that I know that's a lot of information in one sitting if you have any questions don't hesitate to call us at the central off I'm 488-3129 and don't hesitate to call here at the high school and talk to some of the administration 488-215-2312 help you in every way that we possibly can't until we get to speak with you again and at that we may be in session for school I don't know we'll see have a great day God bless you and thanks for supporting our school sis

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