MASSIVE SUMMER CONSTRUCTION MOVES PROJECTS
FORWARD AT FIRST FOUR SCHOOLS
Midland, Mt. Carmel, Poway, and Westwood Begin Second Year of Construction

Design Work for Next Nine Schools Underway
Plans continue for Abraxas, Chaparral, Garden Road,
Los Peñasquitos, Painted Rock, Pomerado, Rolling Hills, Tierra Bonita, and Twin Peaks

The summer of 2005 gave the Building for Success construction teams the opportunity needed to ensure that the infrastructure at Westwood Elementary, Poway High School, and Mt. Carmel High School would be replaced with efficient electrical, ventilation, heating, plumbing, and communications systems that are key components to the upgrading of these 30- and 40-year old schools. From the day after the schools closed in June until students arrived on campuses in late August, hundreds of construction workers coordinated efforts to reach the project deadlines. At the new Midland Elementary School site, every day brings changes to the new campus buildings and classrooms.
More than $80 million has been awarded for 119 construction contracts in the Building for Success program. At Poway High School $8 million in utility system upgrades throughout the campus were completed this summer. All the rows of portable buildings along the back third of the campus have been removed, and the new 22-classroom, two-story, 80,000 square-foot building is being constructed.
An entire wing of Westwood Elementary School is now complete. The new kitchen, lunch shelter, upgraded playground area, and the expanded parking lot were also finished.
At Mt. Carmel High School, students and teachers returned to modernized science, industrial, and fine arts classrooms that include upgrades to the auto, woodworking, ceramics, and computer-aided design shops and laboratories. New windows and trellis structures compliment the interior improvements. This work is in addition to the new eight-classroom building completed last spring.
Midland Elementary School students and staff held a ground-breaking ceremony in June. Two metal beams with their signatures were placed at the top of the new multipurpose center. These beams will be visible from the inside linking the old Midland school to the new school and future generations of students.
Twin Peaks Middle School construction contracts will be advertised in September 2005, with work to start near the winter break period. Design work continues at Painted Rock Elementary, Chaparral Elementary, Garden Road Elementary, and Tierra Bonita Elementary. Design work has started at Pomerado Elementary, Rolling Hills Elementary, and Los Peñasquitos Elementary schools. Design work has also started ahead of schedule at Abraxas High School. The design work for the new music building at Rancho Bernardo High School is complete, with construction start planned Winter 2005.