![Rep. Tina Orwall wears a white construction hat.]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1731717677/highlineschoolsorg/ydwctk5ljbqvwcsnyoga/OrwallTour-SouthernHeights-11-7-24_1200x630-1.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1731717677/highlineschoolsorg/ydwctk5ljbqvwcsnyoga/OrwallTour-SouthernHeights-11-7-24_1200x630-1.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1731717677/highlineschoolsorg/ydwctk5ljbqvwcsnyoga/OrwallTour-SouthernHeights-11-7-24_1200x630-1.png","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1731717677/highlineschoolsorg/ydwctk5ljbqvwcsnyoga/OrwallTour-SouthernHeights-11-7-24_1200x630-1.png","width":1200}])
Representative Tina Orwall visited two of our school sites last week. She viewed the buildings at Southern Heights to see the fire damage from July. Then she toured the new Evergreen High School construction project.
Critical Needs
The 2016 bond provided $19 million to cover critical needs, such as roof replacements, and emergency repairs, like plumbing and boiler failures in our older buildings.
The bond replenished the capital fund. Otherwise our capital fund would have been depleted in 2017-18 because a bond had not been passed for 10 years.
Without a capital fund, critical needs and emergency repairs must be financed out of our general fund, which pays for everything it takes to educate students, including teachers' salaries, textbooks and educational technology. Our general fund also pays for all costs of operating schools, such as utilities and regular maintenance of our facilities.
New Updates
![Transportation Building Project Advances to Permit Stage]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1714122118/highlineschoolsorg/tyqkmcu0fkixoikrx8pl/TransportationBuildingDesign-April-x700.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1714122118/highlineschoolsorg/tyqkmcu0fkixoikrx8pl/TransportationBuildingDesign-April-x700.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1714122118/highlineschoolsorg/tyqkmcu0fkixoikrx8pl/TransportationBuildingDesign-April-x700.png","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1714122118/highlineschoolsorg/tyqkmcu0fkixoikrx8pl/TransportationBuildingDesign-April-x700.png","width":1000}])
Progress is underway for the new modular Transportation building, which will soon replace the outdated facilities used by our bus drivers and dispatchers.
![Photo of custodian pushing carts up ramp.]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1727546877/highlineschoolsorg/mw3zo68jcwe1vhpzdcba/HilltopADAAccess-Summer20241200x6664.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1727546877/highlineschoolsorg/mw3zo68jcwe1vhpzdcba/HilltopADAAccess-Summer20241200x6664.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1727546877/highlineschoolsorg/mw3zo68jcwe1vhpzdcba/HilltopADAAccess-Summer20241200x6664.png","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1727546877/highlineschoolsorg/mw3zo68jcwe1vhpzdcba/HilltopADAAccess-Summer20241200x6664.png","width":1200}])
This summer, we installed a new concrete ramp to provide ADA access to the main entrance and school office at Hilltop Elementary.