By LESTER CHANG
The Cupertino Union School District Board of Education has approved nearly $1.3 million to two architectural firms to redesign four elementary schools under a multimillion-dollar modernization plan.
At a Feb. 13 meeting, the board approved a $910,000 budget to Higgins & Root Ellmore Titus Architects, based in Los Gatos, to redesign Blue Hills, L.P. Collins and West Valley elementary schools.
Plans generally call for creating a new computer room, a library, and more office space and rooms for teachers; reshaping a room for use by psychologists and speech therapists; and installation of new electrical wiring and roofing materials, said Jerd Ferraiuolo, the district's director of facility modernization.
The work, to be done at a cost of $8.3 million, is scheduled to start in 1997 and will take a year to complete, he said.
The board also approved a $335,000 contract to the Steinberg Group, based in San Jose, to redesign Christa McAuliffe school.
Plans call for converting two classrooms into a stage and assembly area, and building a laboratory for science, cooking and art projects, a library, and a room for small-group instructions and computer use.
Plans also call for a workroom for staffers and expansion of food-service facilities.
The work is scheduled to start in June and is expected to be completed by June 1997, Ferraiuolo said. The work is projected to cost about $2.6 million.
Funding for the redesign plans and work will come from a $71 million bond to modernize the four schools, Faria and Lincoln elementary schools and Cupertino, Warren F. Hyde, John F. Kennedy and Joaquin Miller junior high schools.
This article appeared in the Sunnyvale Sun, February 28, 1996.
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