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do said. “We had about 4
inches of water on the
blacktop on the north
side of campus and
around our modular
classrooms.”
Bellando said fortu-
nately that water subsid-
ed reasonably quickly
through school.
“Some water entered
one of the classrooms ad-
jacent to the gym due to
heavy roof runoff at that
point. The water was re-
moved right away,” he
said.
Mark Twain Elemen-
tary withstood about 6
inches of standing water
at its entrance.
Bellando said that
school was also able to
stave off water entering
the school at the en-
trance, however, flows
did seep into other areas.
“We had water intru-
sion into the library due
to ground saturation and
some water leaking
through the windows,” he
said. “We had to remove
some books in the library
so they wouldn’t be dam-
aged. We also had to use
extractors to remove wa-
ter that entered the li-
brary along with ventila-
tion fans.
“We are closely moni-
toring that area to be cer-
tain it dries thoroughly,”
he added.
Like many others in
the valley, the district
would welcome a few
sunny days as well.
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Each
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from with-
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spective
depart-
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securing
the grants.
Grambusch
“One of
our former volunteers,
Craig Emch, spearhead-
ed this project. I have to
give him credit for tack-
ling this,” Trierweiler
said.
Miles noted that Sil-
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Grambusch
authored
that district’s grant appli-
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cause the building has
shifted and the doors are
stuck,” Grambusch said.
“The interior compo-
nents of the station are a
hazard to employees; ceil-
ing tiles and light fixtures
could fall on us, windows
might break/shatter, rig-
id
pipes
could
break…“We cannot help
others if we are injured or
killed.”
With than in mind, the
district welcomes the
structural improvements
afforded.
“This grant allows us
to hire a contractor and
other professionals to fix
seismic deficiencies at
our main station,” he said.
“(The main station) in-
cludes apparatus bays
that hold four fire appara-
tus,
training
rooms,
sleeping quarters, public
education presentation
areas, administrative of-
fices and the Emergency
Operations Center, which
is used by the fire district
as well as the city of Sil-
verton and other first re-
sponders.
“This station is a very
important component to
the fire safety of the com-
munity we serve.”
Up the road in Mt. An-
gel, the $60k should help
get things in ship shape.
“Our focus is to im-
Schools
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to prepare by making sure
schools have been seismi-
cally retrofitted so they
won’t ‘pancake’ during a
large quake.
“These buildings must
survive, not only to pro-
tect children, but so
they’ll be available to
serve as emergency oper-
ations centers, field hos-
pitals, rendezvous points
for families, and places
where community re-
sponse can be coordinat-
ed.”
A handful of schools in
Marion and Polk counties
will receive funding, in-
cluding Whitworth Ele-
mentary in Dallas, Four
Corners Elementary in
Salem-Keizer, and Lin-
coln and Washington Ele-
mentary’s in Woodburn.
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emergency planners are
telling us ‘It’s real, and it’s
coming,’” said State Sena-
tor Ted Ferrioli, R-John
Day. “Communities need
to prepare by making
sure (schools and emer-
gency-response
facili-
ties) have been seismical-
ly retrofitted so they
won’t ‘pancake’ during a
large quake.
“These buildings must
survive, not only to pro-
tect children, but so
they’ll be available to
serve as emergency oper-
ations centers, field hos-
pitals, rendezvous points
for families, and places
where community re-
sponse can be coordinat-
ed,”
Ferrioli
added,
stressing that “we must
also turn our attention to
police stations, fire halls
and ambulance centers
from which first respond-
ers are dispatched.”
Grambusch said engi-
neering reports revealed
Silverton’s main station
lacked key elements to
resist a major seismic
event, and he provided an
itemized list describing
with the $736k and
change means to the dis-
trict.
“If there were to be an
earthquake, we may not
be able to get the appara-
tus bay doors open be-
Amount: $700,160
School(s): Whitworth
Elementary School
Use: Rehabilitation of
the gymnasium
Timeline:
Construc-
tion is expected to start in
the summer of 2018 and be
complete by the start of
the 2018-2019 school year
in September.
The district has been
working on getting fund-
ing for seismic renova-
tions for awhile now and
did the initial seismic as-
sessment on several of
our school facilities, in-
cluding Whitworth Ele-
mentary in September of
2015, said Kevin Monta-
gue, facilities director for
the district.
The district has suc-
cessful obtained two seis-
mic grant funds under the
program, both of which
were for Whitworth. Once
the completion of this
most recent grant is com-
pleted, the entire school
will be seismically up-
graded to Life/Safety con-
dition, said Montague.
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Silver Falls School District’s rural Victor Point Elementary
School was among the schools previously awarded
seismic-improvement grants through Business Oregon’s
Infrastructure Finance Authority.
North Santiam School
District
Amount:
$924,263;
$1,500,000
School(s):
Stayton
High School and Sublimi-
ty Middle School
Use: High school In-
dustrial
Arts/Music
Building; overall middle
school upgrade
Timeline: 2018
“These are the first
North Santiam School
District (seismic grant)
awards,” said NSSD Su-
perintendent Andy Gard-
ner. “Given the late time-
line and invasiveness of
the Sublimity project, we
are looking to do the work
in the summer of 2018. We
are looking at the high
school project the same
way. The escalation in
construction prices is a
challenge.”
Salem-Keizer
Amount: $1,492,268
School(s): Four Cor-
ners Elementary School
Use:
Seismically
strengthen the school by
replacing certain roofing
materials, tying the walls
to the new roof, and reno-
vating some of the brick
doorways for clear exits
in the event of an earth-
quake.
Timeline: Complete by
the start of the 2018-2019
school year. Construction
is anticipated to begin at
the start of the 2018 sum-
mer, said Joel Smallwood,
manager of maintenance
and construction services
for the district.
This is the second
grant from this program
Salem-Keizer has re-
ceived.
Silver Falls
Amount: $1,498,575;
$351,500; $1,498,100
School(s): Mark Twain
Elementary, Robert Frost
Elementary,
Silverton
Middle School
Use: Upgrade the Mark
Twain elementary class-
rooms and various other
projects, upgrade the
Robert Frost covered
play area, and upgrade
the Silverton Middle
School gym.
Timeline: Based on
previous grants, the dis-
trict predicts the projects
will be complete by the
start of the 2018-2019 or
2019-2020 school year,
said district Superinten-
dent Andy Bellando.
The district has re-
ceived three grants from
this program in the past.
“We actually qualified
for three other seismic
grants to this point,”
SFSD Superintendent An-
dy Bellando said. “Scotts
Mills School seismic re-
hab was completed last
summer. The project was
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prove the facility to ‘im-
mediate occupancy’ stan-
dards so emergency oper-
ations can continue with-
out interruption after a
major seismic event,”
Trierweiler said. “Our
project won’t require us
to vacate or really effect
much from an operation-
al standpoint.
“There is a lot of work
to be done, but it’s rela-
tively minor in compari-
son to some other pro-
jects in the state. The two
largest components are
improvement or place-
ment of anchors and
sheer walls.”
Trierweiler said the
goal is to get the project
underway and finished as
quickly as possible.
“Our
project
is
straightforward
and
should take only a matter
weeks once the dust
starts flying,” he said. “Of
course there are certain
administrative
proce-
dures we follow and that
will take some time on the
front end. If we can at-
tract the right contract-
ing partners with capaci-
ty in their schedule it’s
possible we can be fin-
ished by year end.”
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approxi-
mately $1.1
million.
Victor
Point and
Butte
Creek
Bellando
School seis-
mic projects are slated
for this summer.
“The specific scope of
work for each of the new
sites has yet to be deter-
mined,” Bellando added.
“However, the grants will
fund
seismic
needs
throughout Mark Twain
Elementary School, to the
covered play structure of
Robert Frost School and
to the gymnasium at Sil-
verton Middle School.
These are yet to be sched-
uled but I anticipate their
completion during the
summer of 2018 or 2019.”
Woodburn
Amount: $1,500,000;
$1,499,235
School(s): Lincoln and
Washington Elementary
Schools
Use: Upgrade elemen-
tary schools — reinforce
walls, basement; fix un-
reinforced walls, espe-
cially areas in Lincoln
with multiple windows.
Timeline: Construc-
tion at Washington Ele-
mentary can begin imme-
diately since the district is
already working on con-
struction there via a 2015
construction bond, said
Woodburn
Superinten-
dent Chuck Ransom. Con-
struction is estimated to
be complete by the start
of the 2018-2019 school
year.
Lincoln will be the later
of the two. Construction
should begin and Ransom
is hopeful it can be com-
pleted in the middle of the
2018-2019 school year.
Construction for the 2015
bond is anticipated to be
complete by 2020.
Ransom said the diffi-
cult part is having stu-
dents still in the building
as they work, but they are
trying to schedule as
much construction over
the summer as possible.
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Other schools receiving
funds include:
» Cascade School
District-Cloverdale
Elementary School, $974,190
» Jefferson School
District-Jefferson Elementary
Classrooms, $1,423,600
» Jefferson School
District-Jefferson Middle
School Gym, $1,459,645
» North Marion School
District-North Marion HS
Gym, $1,420,685
» North Marion School
District-North Marion MS
Gym, $1,494,870
» Santiam Canyon School
District-Jr/Sr HS Auditorium,
$1,415,460
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