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Renovation Needs
Climate Control
Improvement: Install new heating and air-conditioning system throughout the school building.
Current problems: Wide variation in temperature from room to room cannot be controlled because of the nature of the heat/air conditioning system. It takes 3-4 working days to change over from heat to cool and back again. Students and faculty continually voice concerns about rooms that are uncomfortably cold or hot.
Handicapped Access
Improvement: Bring entire building up to accessibility standards.
Current problems: Current arrangements for handicapped students are makeshift at best. To enter the bottom floor of the annex, for example, handicapped students must go outside and enter through a classroom. The classrooms in the stadium are also difficult to access, with ramps which are too steep to accommodate a wheelchair.
The worst spot is the middle floor of the annex, where foreign language and an English class are taught. That floor is completely inaccessible by wheelchair, so when a handicapped student is taking a class normally held in a mid-annex classroom, the entire class must be moved to a more accessible area. Those classes lose access to the technology and materials located back on the mid-annex floor.
Inadequate Restrooms
Improvement: Renovate restrooms throughout the building to make larger, to allow better handicapped access, and to provide hot water.
Current problems: Overall, there are too few restrooms, including none in the "annex". The student restrooms do not have hot water. The restrooms adjacent to the main gym are far too small for the crowds attending basketball games and other events held in the main gym. Modifications to provide handicap access have further reduced the capacity of these facilities. Those restrooms that have been modified are located in areas that can be inconvenient for students who already have compromised mobility.
Parking
Improvement: Increase on-campus parking to approximately 1,000 (tentative) cars. Also provide a provide a half-oval drive in the front of the building for convenient drop-off and pick-up.
Current problems: Current parking capacity is 596, which is not sufficient to handle daily use by student faculty and visitors and extremely inadequate for special events such as football games. The surrounding neighborhood absorbs the excess.
Designated Meeting Area
Improvement: Provide a room large enough for group testing, faculty meetings, special presentations, workshops, science fairs and additional dining.
Current problems: The school has no dedicated space for testing, for gatherings of two or three classes or for faculty meetings. There is no place in the building to test small groups of students who take specialized tests for math competition, AP examinations, or ASVAB tests. There is no place where two or three classes could combine for a special presentation. Science fairs and other special events cannot be held on-site because no space on campus is appropriate for such activities.
Other Renovations
Improvements: General renovations will provide a safe area of loading/unloading buses, reduce building security concerns, and eliminate the need for the skywalk, for classrooms in the lower level of the stadium, and for the "temporary" metal building now housing classrooms. The entire building will be designed so students can move from one area to another without leaving the structure.
Current problems: The area for loading and unloading buses is extremely congested. There are security concerns about the building's multiple entrances and about the road between the stadium and main building. The substandard metal building that houses two classrooms is poorly located and in deteriorating condition. The skywalk between the main building and the stadium leaks badly. There is no area of a nurses station/clinic. Leaking expansion joints in the stadium cause water to enter classrooms on the lower level.
This "temporary" building was installed in 1963 as an auxiliary cafeteria. It has been used for various instructional purposes since then, and currently houses two classrooms.
Please direct any comments or suggestions regarding this page to:
Granger Meador, Bartlesville High School
gmeador@bps-ok.org