By Charles Lefebvre

Eagle Butte High School modernization expected to be pushed back another year

Mar 17, 2018 | 9:00 AM

DUNMORE, AB — Modernization work at Eagle Butte High School is not expected to be completed for another year.

The school is currently scheduled on the Alberta Education website for modernization work to be completed in September 2018. $5.9 million in upgrades were first announced in 2014, and they were scheduled to be completed by September 2017.

“We just closed our tender process on March 1,” said Ryan Boser, secretary/treasurer with the Prairie Rose School Division. “We’re just in the final stages of the evaluation process that goes around with looking at all the contractors’ bids. That evaluation process is almost complete, and then the final step is we have to send that off to Alberta Infrastructure for their final review.”

The school has not had any major work completed since it was first built in the 1990s.

In 2017, the Prairie Rose School Division board was told the project was held up in the design phase, due to septic tank replacement work that came in above what was originally budgeted.

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Boser says once the project is approved to begin construction, they’re hoping to have contractors on site as soon as possible.

“Right now, we have it scheduled for September 2018, however, obviously knowing where we are in the project right now, we’ll have to extend that,” he said. “We won’t be able to get the project done by the end of this year, but we hope that sometime in September 2019 might be a better date.”