This building, constructed in 2011, will come to the Orcas School campus this week.
Orcas Island School District Superintendent Barbara Kline says that a new modular building should be arriving on campus by the end of this week.
“We will have it landed in a temporary location, possibly behind the old gym. As soon as the site is prepared, it will be moved to its permanent location behind the district office. The concept is to take down the district office and open up that area to the front of the elementary as more grassy space. This building will therefore not add more buildings in a line but will replace the district office with a building further from the street,” said Kline.
The modular building will serve to house classes that may need to move during the $11.9 million construction projects authorized by voters in 2012. Then it will become a classroom, probably for an elementary class.
The building was constructed in 2011 for the University of Washington. The School District got it free of charge though its membership in the WSU Energy Consortium. The cost is limited to moving and setting up on the Orcas campus. “It’s a good deal for what seems to be a good quality building,” said Kline.
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