FEMA Safe Room Additions

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FEMA Safe Room Additions
SAFER CHILDREN
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W H Y D O W E N E E D S H E L T E R S ?
Jefferson Elementary, Wichita
Greensburg Elementary School, Greensburg
Greensburg High School, Greensburg
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C U R R E N T S T A T U S O F S H E L T E R S
31 MULTIPURPOSE ROOMS/CAFETERIAS
Adams Allen Buckner Emerson Earhart Enterprise Fra
nklin Griffith Harry Street Horace
Mann Hyde Jackson Jefferson Kelly Linwood LOuvert
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OK Park Payne Price/Harris Riverside Washington Wo
odland White Woodman Metro Boulevard Metro
Meridian Metro Midtown Chisholm Life
Skills Greiffenstein/Wells Little Early Childhood
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C U R R E N T S T A T U S O F S H E L T E R S
5 CLASSROOM ADDITIONS
Cessna Kensler McCollom Levy Center Sowers Center
1 SMALL GYMNASIUM
Gordon Parks Academy
37 total shelters now provided for 12,000 children
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T H E P R O B L E M
More than 38,000 children in 60 schools across
Wichita still do not have access to a safe room
storm shelter in their school.
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T H E S O L U T I O N
What the Bond Issue will provide
HIGH SCHOOLS

• East
• Fine arts addition
• Heights
• Wrestling room
• Classrooms/fine arts expansion
• North
• Wrestling room
• Classroom addition
• Northwest
• Wrestling room
• Instrumental music addition
• South
• Wrestling room
• Music suite expansion

• Southeast
• Wrestling room
• Music suite expansion
• West
• Wrestling room
• Music suite expansion

Totals 60 schools (Over 400,000 new s.f.)
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T H E S O L U T I O N
What the Bond Issue will provide
SPECIAL SCHOOLS

• Northeast High
• New addition (library, art studios, corridor)
• Blackbear Bosin
• Multipurpose room (capital funded)
• Greiffenstein/Wells
• Multipurpose room

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T H E S O L U T I O N
What the Bond Issue will provide
MIDDLE SCHOOLS

• Allison
• Music suite
• Brooks
• Practice gymnasium
• Coleman
• Classroom addition
• Curtis
• Classroom addition
• Hadley
• Practice gymnasium
• Hamilton
• Cafeteria addition
• Jardine
• Classroom addition
• Marshall
• Classroom addition

• Mayberry
• Practice gymnasium
• Mead
• Classroom addition
• Pleasant Valley
• Practice gymnasium
• Robinson
• Practice gymnasium
• Stucky
• Classroom addition
• Truesdell
• Practice gymnasium
• Wilbur
• Classroom addition

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T H E S O L U T I O N
What the Bond Issue will provide
NEW SCHOOLS

• 2 New High Schools
• Wrestling rooms
• Music suite
• 2 New K 8 Schools
• Multipurpose rooms
• 2 New PreK 5 Elementary Schools
• Multipurpose rooms

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T H E S O L U T I O N
What the Bond Issue will provide
ELEMENTARIES

• Anderson
• Multipurpose room
• Beech
• Classroom addition
• Benton
• Multipurpose room
• Black
• Classroom addition
• Bostic
• Classroom addition
• Bryant
• Classroom addition
• Caldwell
• Multipurpose room
• Chisholm trail
• Multipurpose room

• Clark
• Classroom addition
• Cleaveland
• Classroom addition
• Cloud
• Multipurpose rom
• College Hill
• Classroom addition
• Colvin
• Classroom addition
• Dodge
• Multipurpose room
• Gammon
• Classroom addition
• Gardner
• Multipurpose room

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T H E S O L U T I O N
What the Bond Issue will provide
ELEMENTARIES

• Irving
• Multipurpose room
• Isely
• Multipurpose room
• Lawrence
• Multipurpose room
• Lewis
• Multipurpose room
• Lincoln
• Classroom addition
• McLean
• Library addition
• Minneha
• Multipurpose room
• Mueller
• Multipurpose room

• Peterson
• Multipurpose room
• Pleasant Valley
• Multipurpose room
• Seltzer
• Classroom addition
• Spaght
• Multipurpose room
• Stanley
• Classroom addition

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T H E S O L U T I O N
What the Bond Issue will provide SUMMARY
EXISTING HIGH SCHOOLS
2 NEW HIGH SCHOOLS
6 wrestling rooms 7 music classroom additions
Wrestling music
2 K 8 SCHOOLS
EXISTING MIDDLE SCHOOLS
Little gymnasiums
6 practice gymnasiums (similar to Gordon Parks) 8
classroom additions 1 cafeteria
2 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
Multipurpose rooms
EXISTING ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
16 multipurpose rooms 1 library 12 classroom
additions
EXISTING SPECIAL SCHOOLS
3 multipurpose rooms/classroom additions
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W H Y C O S T E F F E C T I V E N O W ?

• 400,000 s.f. of new construction for 38,000
  children
• Bond funding 45 million
• State funding 15 million
• Cost of Standard New Construction 60 million
• Add cost to harden (by FEMA) 18 million
• TOTAL cost of shelters 78 million

(45 million provided by bonds/33 million
provided by state FEMA)
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S U M M A R Y

• 60 shelters will be provided
• 38,000 children accommodated
• ADA accessible
• All USD 259 children will have access to a
  shelter
• All shelter spaces provide educational functions
  throughout school day
• Federal government provides all funding for
  upgrade to shelter status
• Provides parents peace of mindall USD 259
  children will now be safe