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Box 68, Petersburg, Indiana 47567 • • • • • • Entered at the Post Office in Petersburg, Indiana for trans- mission through the mails as Pe- riodical Mail, postage paid at Petersburg, Indiana. Published weekly. (USPS 604-340) "One involves the fire alarm system – the central fire alarm – and that's tied into a workable, outside- the-building telephone line, and the test thereof. All of that could happen almost in a single day." Otwell Miller Acade- my School Board member Mike Houtsch, who serves as the chairman of the school board's operations and facilities subcommit- tee, told the group that the building's fire alarm system had already been tested, but that the state fire marshal is requiring that it be re-test- ed in their presence. "When I talked to Wey- er Electric today, they said that they've never heard of that," Houtsch said. "But if that's what the fire mar- shal wants, that's what they want. So we're getting that set up, hopefully, within the next day or two, to have that done." Other work remaining to be done include the hang- ing and finishing of sec- tions of drywall, the com- pletion of the installation of the building's HVAC system and "getting the hot water on," according to Houtsch. "That should happen this week," Houtsch said. "So this week should really give us a big leg up on what the fire marshal wants us to do so we can get in the build- ing." "The update is good," Rhodes said. "Progress is slow." Houtsch, however, re- minded Rhodes that the actual construction of the building itself began on Ju- ly 6, and that a lot of work had been done in approxi- mately 45 days. "I understand what you're saying," Houtsch said. "It feels like it's slow, but it's not." Houtsch said that he has been "super pleased" with all of the contractors on the building project. "They've given me a scare a time or two, but I've been super pleased with them, as far as getting ev- erything in and stuff like that," Houtsch said. "Usu- ally, those people don't walk over the top of each other like they have been for us, and they really did help us out walking on top of each other, waiting for each oth- er to get out of the way, dif- ferent things like that. I know Weyer, as soon as a wall went up...they were in there wiring it within an hour. So they really did a fantastic job." Rhodes noted that school officials were utilizing a number of volunteers to help keep the school going at the churches while wait- ing for the school building to be finished. "As I look around the room, there are several people here who have put in their time as door guards and the like, and we need to understand that I don't have an end date for you," Rhodes said. "Nobody in this room can tell you when that requirement is going to go away." Rhodes also pointed out that school officials were required by the state fire marshal to have a fire guard present at each of the two church locations. "Last week, we kept the cost of that down," Rhodes said. "This week, we're having to hire them a lit- tle more frequently. Not as much as we could be doing, but we're still having some cost interference with our budget simply because we have to have those fire guards at both of the oper- ating locations." "Our goal right now is to get in the building as soon as we can," Rhodes add- ed. "Other than that, I re- ally don't have any infor- mation that I'm able to let you know today. It will be soon, but certainly not in the short term." While Rhodes said he was unable to predict when the school building would be ready, he expressed his hope that Monday night's meeting would be the last that the Friends of Otwell Elementary holds at the Ot- well Community Center. "My personal intent is that this will be the last pub- lic meeting that we hold in this venue," Rhodes said. "I will not announce to- night the date for the next public meeting. If you need some planning, I would say aim for the third Monday in September, but there are no guarantees, because we are going to take this meeting into our new building just as soon as we can do that." Rhodes said that it was vi- tally important to the suc- cess of Otwell Miller Acad- emy that it develop multi- ple revenue streams to help keep it financially viable. "Be aware that we have already crossed a bridge that we didn't want to cross," Rhodes said. "We had to build our own build- ing. When Mike and the rest of the board started its trip, that was the last thing we wanted to do. But it is the thing that we were forced to do." "I'm not going to belabor the point, but that's a dan- gerous thing for us to have had to do, and it's really im- portant that we create more income, more money, not from your pockets, not from the state, but from inde- pendent operations. That's what we're seeking to do. So keep that in mind as we go through what's going on." ACADEMY Continued from page 5 Commission to End Drug Abuse awarded grants Commission to End Drug Abuse in Pike County, Inc. (CEDA) are thrilled to support these prevention, treatment, and law enforce- ment programs in Pike County. We awarded grants to Youth First for a school social worker, Samaritan Center for treatment groups, and the sheriff department's K9 on Thursday. Pictured are (from left): Charlie Barr, CEDA treasurer; Joy Cassitty with Samaritan Center; Ellie Meade from Youth First; and Kent Johnson, Buck Seger and Dallas Killian from the sheriff's office.