Vashon’s school board has decided that it will bring voters a bond in April that will be no more than $10 million and address the high school’s athletic facilities and deteriorating buildings not replaced when the new campus was built.

The board also recently voted to require all bond decisions to have unanimous approval by all five board members.

A $26.9 million bond that aimed to replace most of the athletic facilities and included the construction of a new high school gym and overhauling the track and field area to create grandstands failed to pass in October of 2015 under the previous school board. The current board has eliminated the projects in that bond and are calling instead for repairing fixtures inside the high school gym, replacing the bleachers, replacing the roof and making the building seismically secure by securing equipment inside. The projects are estimated to cost around $500,000.

For the high school’s track and field, the board is calling for a full replacement that would include a rubberized track surface and either a sand-based grass field (the current field is soil-based) or synthetic turf. If the board decides on synthetic turf, crumb rubber will not be used as infill. Alternative infill options include Nike grind (ground up tennis shoes), organic materials such as coconut husk or cork, silica sand and coated elastomers and polymers. The board has not decided on natural or artificial turf or an alternative infill.

Costs for the track and field are estimated at $3,850,000 for a six-lane rubberized track and natural grass field and $4,650,000 for a rubberized track and artificial turf field. An eight-lane track would add $275,000 to the price and an upgrade to LED lighting for the field would add $150,000.

Aside from athletic facilities, the bond will also address the high school’s F and K buildings, which are left over from the school’s original campus built in 1973.

Currently, Building K houses the high school’s FamilyLink and StudentLink alternative education programs. The building needs a new roof, heating and cooling system, renovation to reconfigure the building’s layout and upgrades to furnishings. Not all cost estimates have been received yet, but the roof replacement and renovation costs are estimated at around $1 million.

For Building F, which currently serves as a storage building and has been determined to be seismically deficient, discussions center around whether to demolish the building ($350,000), renovate it and bring it up to code ($2.5 million) or do a minimal seismic upgrade ($1 million).

Board chair Bob Hennessey said last Thursday that the demolition and full renovation to code costs “do not make sense” given that the building’s purpose is storage and students do not go inside.

The last of the large projects being considered is the district bus barn, which needs seismic improvements, and the facilities maintenance building, which is too small for current needs and requires a new roof. The board has authorized up to $2,500 to determine an estimate for the seismic retrofit of the bus barn. That estimate has not been presented to the board yet. For the facilities maintenance building, the board is deciding between replacing the building with a free-standing structure or adding it to the bus barn structure.

The board is expecting to have a bond proposal for the April election by the end of the year. During upcoming meetings, the board will continue to make decisions about what will be included in the bond.

The next meeting is at 7 p.m. tomorrow, Nov. 17, at the district meeting room at Chautauqua Elementary School.