MICHIGAN
East Lansing City Council members will get their first look at the semi-renovated East Lansing High School when they meet with the city's Board of Education tonight.
The groups also will touch base on mutual concerns, such as snow plowing services, and will discuss the possibility of housing some school buses at a new East Lansing Department of Public Works site.
Mayor Mark Meadows said the council is looking forward to touring the new high school during one of its quarterly meetings with the school district.
"It was a big issue for the community when they voted to provide the school board with funds to make those changes," Meadows said.
Construction on the $55 million project, which began in January 2001, is about 75 percent complete, said Paula Steele, principal at East Lansing High School.
New music rooms, two gymnasiums, a 550-seat student union, an inside track and science laboratories are among the completed additions to the building, Steele said.
The auditorium is scheduled to be completed in mid-December, and a media center will be finished by August 2005.
"Everybody's been really patient," Steele said.