Tonight's School Board Meeting

The Pitt County Schools facility committee will recommend that more than $37 million of their initial $57 million Long Range Facility Plan be approved tonight during their regular March meeting.
What will be recommended to the board tonight will be a $1.3 million sewer project at Chicod School, $6.8 million for adding a gym, expanding the cafeteria, renovating the auditorium, parking and a new traffic plan at D.H. Conley High School, and $8.1 million at Eastern Elementary School for 11 new classrooms, a multi-purpose room, cafeteria, and various other upgrades.
Also recommended will be the addition of 10 classrooms at Farmville Central High School, an expanded cafeteria and new parking for a cost of $4.2 million., a new 742 capacity model elementary school for $16.1 million, a sewer project at Pactolus and Stokes at a cost of $350,000, and a reconfigured Pre-K-center and office area at Sadie Saulter at a cost of $200,000.
It will also be recommended that Third Street Schools should be closed and student reassignment be activated between A.G. Cox, C.M. Epps and E.B. Aycock schools.