Three members of the Cape Elizabeth School Board toured the town’s high school on Tuesday morning to see how the renovations are progressing.

Interim Superintendent Bob Lyman, Business Manager Pauline Aportria and high school Principal Jeff Shedd led board members Henry Adams, Katharine Ray and Elaine Moloney through the recently finished gym, the locker rooms that should be ready by the middle or end of next week, portions of the cafeteria that are still being worked on, the gutted main office and some of the new classrooms.

Lyman pointed out that the process is not the same as Pond Cove’s addition, where the job was finished and you could walk through with a checklist to make sure everything is correct.

“We’re accepting bits and pieces as we go,” Lyman said.

Handling the logistics involved with running a school, while at the same time carrying on several different construction projects in different parts of the school, is a monumental task.

For example, the carpet in the “senior hallway” has been torn up, so the students bring their own chairs to avoid sitting on the concrete floor.

The portion of the cafeteria that is still under going reconstruction should be ready for the students when they return from April vacation.

“It’s nice to be roughly half done,” Lyman said. He also noted that the project is on budget and on schedule for completion in February 2006.

Some projects that have yet to be started include the Industrial Arts wing on the first floor that is scheduled to begin at the end of the summer, two new student parking lots next to the IA wing, and bathrooms on the third floor. The big project that has yet to be started is the extensive reconstruction of the science classrooms, which will take place over the summer and be ready for students in the fall.

Interim Superintendent Robert Lyman, left, and School Board member Henry Adams look out the front entrance of Cape Elizabeth High School at work being done to the area.

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