Officials discuss bus garage

Preliminary stages of new garage and maintenance building being reviewed

Clearview Local Schools has been working with an architect in the preliminary stages of a new bus garage and maintenance building to be constructed at the same site as the current buildings next to Clearview High School, 4700 Broadway Ave. in Lorain.

Superintendent Jerome Davis said he, Treasurer Mary Ann Nowak and Maintenance Supervisor Mark Smarsh recently met with an architect, who provided designs of the potential new building.

“(Board members) talked a lot about a bus garage and maintenance facility, and so the architect did bring us a design that none of us had remotely pictured it being,” he said during an Aug. 12 Board of Education meeting.

The proposed building has 13 bays for school buses, space for office rooms and the storage of maintenance vehicles.

Davis said he and Nowak had originally envisioned the current garage and maintenance building being combined into an L-shaped facility with a wrap-around driveway.

“(The architect) came up with something totally different, and as we looked at it further, we liked it,” Davis said.

The garage would also allow buses to enter and exit from either side of the building, Davis said.

Parking would be available in front of the garage.

Nowak said the placement of

the garage would also free up space on the property for a potential place to

store additional supplies otherwise stored in the district’s dump truck.

“We actually have room now for salt, mulch, stone, whatever we need,” she said.

Davis said the district hopes to get the ball rolling on the project by spring of next year.

The project’s current cost sits around $1.5 and $1.8 million, according to Nowak.