By ANDY GARDNER

MASSENA -- After working with architects to update a building condition survey, Massena Central Superintendent Pat Brady says the board is ready to start writing a five-year plan that could involve districtwide capital improvement projects.

“As required under New York State law, school districts are required to develop five year plans for the maintenance of their school buildings,” Brady said. “This was the year our plan was due. One of our goals was to develop a plan to prepare for capital improvement projects to enhance school programming, health, safety, security and energy efficiency.”

He says the idea of building consolidation, first broached during budget talks in 2014, could possibly get rolled in.

“We formed the strategic planning committee this year and looked at our mission and vision of student data to look at areas for improvement one area pointed out by this group is to further explore the idea of colligation … I’m not sure if we’ll move in this direction,” Brady said. “We have to look at all options to provide the bet programming at a price the taxpayer can afford. It’s not off the table.”

He said for each school building, including the bus garage and central administration, are prioritized with numbers between 1 and 3, with 1 meaning it will likely be included in the next project and 3 meaning “nice to have, but not necessary.”

Some of the ideas came from a building condition survey done by the district’s architects.

“The architects and district officials met with administrators, board members, teachers to identify areas for improvement in the buildings, either program needs or infrastructure or aging facility, deterioration of facility,” Brady said. “We accomplished this for each of our buildings, including the bus garage and that report was submitted to the state Education Department, what some of the needs were in the buildings. The information is used to develop our five year plan which is expected to be developed later this summer.”

He said there’s no cost attached to any of the projects at this point. Those estimates will be determined in the near future, Brady said.

Below are links to .pdf files showing the priority areas for each building. BCS means it came from the building condition survey. FAC means it is a facilities committee recommendation. P means the idea came back from teachers and other people in the building and is related to classes and programs. T stands for technology. A means athletics. FS is short for food service.

• High School http://bit.ly/21rbudF

• J.W. Leary Junior High http://bit.ly/1rtGZYe

• Madison Elementary http://bit.ly/1Yxt9kS

• Nightengale Elementary http://bit.ly/1UgvXmG

• Jefferson Elementary http://bit.ly/1W49Lvs

• Bus garage http://bit.ly/1tAOmyU

• Central administration http://bit.ly/1UARrsG