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  Speaker 1: Oswego East High School's Performing Arts Center set to reopen
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  next month. Written by Eric Shelkoff, This article is being
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  Oswego East High School's Performing Arts Center is expected to
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  reopen in early February after being closed for emergency repairs
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  following a recent investigation that revealed fireproofing problems and sealing
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  integrity issues. The project should be substantially completed by February fifth,
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  architect Alex Lopez from Performance Services told Oswego School board
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  members during their January twelfth board meeting. The Art Center
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  is a nine hundred and sixty three seat auditorium that
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  opened in early two thousand and five. At the September
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  eighth board meeting, board members approved a four hundred ninety
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  four thousand, six hundred and twenty one diarct doagball one thousand,
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  six hundred and twenty one contract with Performance Services to
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  do the repairs. Performance Services submitted the lowest bid. Some
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  of the steel the Performing Arts Center is protected by
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  a film called intermescent paint or intermescent coating that protects
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  the steel in case of a fire. Lopez told board members.
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  Over the last twenty years or so, there's been some
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  delamination lately, pretty severe due to potentially many things. Oswego
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  School District three eight chief financial officer and chief school
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  business official, Rafael Obafemi said repairs needed to be made
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  to maintain building safety and compliance with state fire code requirements.
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  The school's auditorium serves as a primary instructional space and
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  is also designated as oehs's main storm shelter, Obefemei and
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  other district officials said in a memo to school board members.
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  As part of the project, Performance Services is doing such
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  things as applying a new intermscent code system, replacing acoustical
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  ceiling cloud systems, and installing new LED light fixtures. One
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  of the things we had to do was strip the
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  entire area, meaning the acoustical ceilings, tile, the electrical fixtures,
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  and any devices that are in there, Lopez said, And
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  most of them ended up in the garbage because we're
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  going to replace them with new systems. The new paint
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  is expected to last for the life of the building.
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  It could be eighty or ninety years, Lopez said. During
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  the meeting, several parents and students, including those involved in
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  the school's theater group express disappointment the annual winter performance
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  will take place on a Wednesday and Thursday this year
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  February eighteenth and nineteen, rather than on a weekend when
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  more people would be able to see the performance