Lake Chelan School District to move into renovated offices by April

CHELAN – Blews Constuction, Inc. of Spokane has been remodeling the property at 307 E. Johnson since January 7 which will serve as the new central offices for the Lake Chelan School District.

“We want to take advantage of a vacant building so we are in the process of renovating that,” said  LCSD Superintendent Barry DePaoli.

The space once occupied by Columbia Valley Community Health Center will now consolidate LCSD’s  HR, business manager, food services, the board room and the superintendent’s office in the same area as the special programs secretaries and their Ed Psychologist.

This change will allow everyone to be together and will create efficiencies for the district as DePaoli stated. Ten new offices and a larger boardroom will be the feature of the new space.

The space in which the district office currently is in will be leased to Chelan Fresh. DePaoli mentioned Chelan Fresh is growing and they are in need of more space.

The bid of $813,900 from Blews was approved during a special board meeting on Dec. 20, 2018, by the school board. It was explained that the district has the funds to do this project which will upgrade the north side of the building and the south side boardroom plus the entrance of the building.

DePoali explained that they will move in by the end of the school year with the hopes of being into the new offices by April or May.