The Governing Board of the Benicia Unified School District will be voting on a proposed renovation of Benicia Middle School’s campus at Thursday’s board meeting.

Construction on the current BMS campus was completed in 1976 and was comprised of four buildings and eight portable classrooms. Now the school is looking to modernize its campus by replacing the portables and redesigning the courtyard in an ampitheater-style setting. Funds for the remodel would be provided through Measure S.

Roxanne Egan, the bond director for Measure S, and Lee Pollard of HY Architects will be presenting the results of a discussion held at a series of meetings in December regarding the total number of classrooms required for the school’s educational programs and the best location for those classrooms. Egan will be presenting examples of current modern designs at other Bay Area schools.

The project would have four phases. The construction of new modular classrooms would take place in the fall of this year. The campus modernization would be scheduled for the summer of 2018. The redesign of the kitchen, lunch shelter and drama room would be slated for spring 2018 through December of that year. Finally, construction on the lower portables would be done in the summer of 2019. Egan also suggested the area be preserved as a swing space while is construction going on. There is also an optional fifth phase regarding resurfacing of the tennis courts which would take place in the summer of 2017.

Egan will also be presenting information regarding the district’s field lease agreement with the city in response to questions raised at the Nov. 17 meeting regarding usage of the field by local sports organizations.

In other business, Egan will be introducing the Measure S Citizens Bond Oversight Committee Annual Report. The update will be delivered by CBOC Chairman Scott Burford and will summarize the committee’s activities in 2016 as well as provide a statement over whether or not the district is complying with the requirements of Article 13A, section 1(b)(3) of the California Constitution.

The board will meet at 7 p.m., Thursday, in the Benicia Unified School District Board Room at the district building on 350 East K St. There will be an earlier closed session at 6 p.m.

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