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LETTER FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT Greetings, We have o�cially opened our new elementary school. Lakeland Elementary is the newest building in the Willmar Public School District.

This 103,000 square-foot elementary school is now operating. We had 541 students enrolled on the first day, January 2, 2018.

The building is designed to educate pre-kindergarten through fifth-grade students. Lakeland Elementary School, located at 1001 Lakeland Drive, is a beautiful building, which is designed to encourage collaboration among students and sta�. The construction of Lakeland Elementary was the largest project associated with a May 2015 bond referendum. Thanks to the support of Willmar Public School District’s residents, we have a modern educational facility. It will serve generations to come, and Lakeland can be a source of pride for the community as well as the school system.

The addition of Lakeland Elementary has already had a positive impact on Kennedy and Roosevelt Elementary Schools, in the form of alleviating crowding issues.

Other projects associated with the 2015 referendum included eight new science classrooms and the enclosure of the courtyard at Willmar Middle School. Construction work at Willmar Middle School was completed in the middle of the 2016-2017 school year.

The science rooms are designed to incorporate the use of technology into science instruction. There are numerous interactive technology features in the Middle School science rooms. We have been utilizing the new Middle School spaces for about a year. Like the design of Lakeland, the spaces at the Middle School were designed to enhance learning through collaborative work. We feel there have been significant benefits to our Middle School students since these improvements were completed.

There are new athletic and fitness facilities at Willmar Senior High School, which are also the result of the 2015 bond referendum. Willmar Senior High now can host gymnastics events, rather than having these events at Kennedy Elementary School, as happened in the past. The fitness center and auxiliary gym provide modern spaces for physical education, as well as extracurricular activities. There were also significant upgrades and improvements to the theater at the Senior High School, which was recently renamed the Brau Performing Arts Center, in honor of retired music teacher Terry Brau and his family.

We have also been catching up on deferred maintenance items, such as roofs, in a number of our existing facilities.

The final stages of referendum-related projects will involve remodeling work at Kennedy Elementary, Roosevelt Elementary and Willmar Senior High School. These projects are expected to be completed in the summer of 2018.

On behalf of current and future students, sta� and parents, I would like to express gratitude for the opportunity to upgrade and expand learning spaces. The investment residents have made in modernizing our school facilities is a tremendous benefit to the entire community. We can be proud that we can educate our students in safe, modern and attractive facilities.

Thank you!

Sincerely, Dr. Je� Holm, Superintendent

Lakeland Elementary opened Jan. 2 New school is the latest of three major building projects completed in Willmar School District

By Linda Vanderwerf lvanderwerf@wctrib.com The Willmar School District and its nearly 5,000 students and employees have more breathing room than they did a year ago.

Starting in January 2017, the district has opened the doors on three major buildings projects designed to ease crowded conditions across the district.

The $52.35 million building program grew from discussions of a task force in fall 2013. The school district’s voters approved it in May 2015 to the delight of then-Superintendent Jerry Kjergaard.

“I’m just walking on air. … It’s quite a way to end a career,” he said. The referendum passed about six weeks before his retirement.

A second question on the ballot, for a $7.75 million field house at Willmar Senior High, was not approved.

The largest project in the program was Lakeland Elementary School, which opened Jan. 2. It had a price tag of roughly half the referendum’s total amount.

Eight new science classrooms at Willmar Middle School opened in January 2017. Willmar Senior High’s expanded athletic/physical education facilities opened

last fall. The two projects cost roughly $12 million.

Other components of the project are $9.5 million for deferred maintenance projects and funding for remodeling in Roosevelt and Kennedy Elementary schools and other buildings.

The additions are the result of long hours of planning by the School Board, school employees and members of the community since 2013.

The citizen task force which met that fall forwarded its recommendation to the School Board.

The board looked at options during 2014 and then hired a firm to conduct a random, scientific survey of voters in the district, asking voters their views of several options.

Some of the other options were building a new junior high school or adding a fifthgrade wing to the middle school.

The survey indicated strong support for the school district and its teachers and support for a building project. Based on the results, the School Board decided to move ahead with a new elementary school, the additions and the remodeling/maintenance projects.

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Lakeland

PROJECT TIMELINE

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been pleased with the new facilities.

At the Lakeland ribbon cutting, Superintendent Je� Holm said, “We should acknowledge the citizens of Willmar for the investment they’ve made in our system.”

At Lakeland, kindergarten teacher Jen Otto said, “the whole building, it’s so bright and gorgeous.” Children walking in for their first tours of the school looked around with wide eyes. “This is awesome,” a boy exclaimed.

Students using the new science classrooms a year ago praised many of their features. Comments included, “It’s just a lot bigger, and you can see things better. Others liked having TVs mounted around the rooms, and said they felt more “professional” with the new higher chairs and work tables.

Activities Director Ryan Blahosky said that many coaches and sta� members helped plan the high school’s new athletic facilities. “We want it to be a facility for all,” he said.

Many of the building plan’s goals have been reached through the projects: Lakeland’s opening has eased overcrowding at the other two elementary schools, Kennedy and

Roosevelt, which each had nearly 1,000 students before. Lakeland’s opening allows the schools to have more room for small group study and better space for special education and English Language Learner classes. Lunch hours are less hectic, too.

The new science classrooms have filled a need for more modern facilities and eased crowding by freeing up the old science rooms for other classes.

The school expanded its cafeteria into a previously vacant courtyard, providing more room for meals or for meetings.

At the high school, a new gymnasium, fitness center and gymnastics facility have given the school the ability to keep most of its after-school athletic practices on campus. Previously, some teams used gyms at other schools for after-school practice. For example, the gymnastics team previously used part of Kennedy’s gym space during its season. Kennedy now has full use of its gym all year.

Many costly, deferred maintenance items have been completed, including new roofs and new boilers for several buildings. The new Senior High roof alone had a price tag of $3 million.

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School is in full swing in the new Lakeland Elementary School building in Willmar.

The new school opened its doors for classes on Jan. 2, welcoming 541 students.

2013 Citizen task force meets from September through December to look at options to improve facilities and alleviate crowding.

The group’s final recommendation was to build a new middle school near the high school, along with remodeling and maintenance work in other buildings. A field house near the high school was also proposed.

2014 School Board began discussing building plan alternatives in February, using the task force recommendation as a starting point.

Over the coming months, the plan shifted a number of times. At the end of the year, the district commissioned a scientific survey of the district with the options narrowed to three: a new elementary school and new middle school science classrooms; a new junior high school; or a fifth-grade wing and middle school science classrooms.

2015 Jan. 12 – Survey results indicate strong approval of the district and its teachers, also support for some type of building project.

Projects used in survey: • $49.4 million for the plan including a new elementary school and new middle school science classrooms; • $56.6 million for the plan including a new junior high school; and • $39 million for the plan including a fifthgrade wing and middle school Jan. 26 – School board chooses the project to be placed on the ballot for a May 19 bond referendum. The final project proposal includes a new elementary school, eight science classrooms at the middle school, expended gymnasium space at the high school, remodeling to modernize other buildings, and completing some badly needed maintenance projects, including a $3 million replacement roof at the high school.

A second question would ask for a field

house, a goal of the Vision 2040 movement.

Before the May 19 referendum, school officials gave informational talks and provided public tours of the school buildings affected by the referendum projects.

Education Matters, an advocacy group for Willmar Schools, campaigned for the referendum, urging voters to vote yes twice.

May 19 – The $52.35 million building project, including the new school and building additions, was approved by a vote of 2,661 to 2,297.

The fieldhouse question failed 2,227 to 2,707.

July 8 – School Board approves the sale of the bonds to pay for the project at 3.14 percent interest. Taxpayers will pay off the bonds through their property taxes over 20 years.

Sept. 28 – School Board hires R.A. Morton Construction Managers to oversee the construction of the new school and the middle and high school additions.

Oct. 12 – School Board chooses site for the new school, along Lakeland Drive Southeast.

Nov. 2 – School Board approves purchase of the land for $800,000.

2016 March 8, 2016 – School district’s design team reviewed the final version of the new school’s floor plan.

March 30, 2016 – Contracts awarded for Middle School project May 2, 2016 – Construction mobilization for science classroom project June 13, 2016 – Groundbreaking for new school June 13, 2016 – Site preparation contract awarded for new school June 13, 2016 – Construction mobilization for new school July 11, 2016 – Floor plan for high school addition approved Timeline continued on Page C5

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Timeline

LAKELAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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GROUNDBREAKING JUNE 2016 June 13, 2016 – Groundbreaking for new school; construction mobilization begins.

Aug. 15, 2016 – Contracts awarded for construction phase for elementary school Sept. 15, 2016 – Contracts awarded for finishings on new school Oct. 10, 2016 – Contracts awarded for high school addition Oct. 23, 2016 – Construction mobilization for high school addition Dec. 23, 2016 – Substantial completion of middle school project.

2017 Jan. 3, 2017 – Science classrooms open Feb.15, 2017 – Lakeland gets its name Sept. 8, 2017 – Substantial completion of the senior high project Oct. 16, 2017 – Dedication of the Brau Performing Arts Center, part of referendum projects at the high school Dec. 11, 2017 – Substantial completion of Lakeland Elementary

Tribune file photo by Rand Middleton

Construction hats and shovels wait on the site of the new elementary school to be built in the upcoming year during the groundbreaking ceremony June 13, 2016.

Dec. 14-21, 2017 – Teachers have their first workshops at Lakeland, and students visit the finished school for the first time.

Dec. 21, 2017 – Lakeland holds its first open house for students, staff and their families.

Jan. 2, 2018 – Lakeland’s first day of school

LAKELAND FUN FACTS •

While the community was watching the walls of Lakeland Elementary School take shape, school officials were busy ordering all the things that would go into the school.

• It ranges from the small things like a paper cutter to the necessities like desks and chairs.

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Much of the furniture ordered for the new school is flexible, with desks that can fit together in different ways. Classrooms for each

grade are clustered around a common area. Those areas will have colorful soft seating in common areas that can be moved into different arrangements. The common areas also have desks, tables and chairs which can be moved about as needed.

Here’s a list of some of the items ordered for Lakeland School, gleaned from a 30page order list.

• 1 paper cutter • 7 child-size kitchen sets, plus sets of play food and play dishes for each • 21 bright-colored carpets

for floor seating in classrooms • 32 folding cafeteria tables with attached stools • 32 teacher desks • 35 U.S. flags and 35 brackets • 47 pencil sharpeners • 58 staplers • 70 recycling bins • 291 different pieces of softseating furniture, often placed in groups of four or more • 639 stools of different types • 746 student desks in several shapes and sizes • 1,151 chairs in many types of styles and sizes

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The first earth movers for the new elementary school on Lakeland Avenue flipped dirt skyward during a groundbreaking ceremony June 13, 2016.

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LAKELAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EARLY GROUNDWORK SUMMER 2016

QUAM CONSTRUCTION FUN FACTS •

Quam Construction

Groundwork began during the summer of 2016 for the new Lakeland Elementary School in Willmar, which officially opened for students on Jan. 2, 2018.

Quam Construction of Willmar moved approximately 90,0000 cubic yards of material – which is a huge undertaking – in order for construction to being on Lakeland Elementary School. That would be the equivalent of moving over 27 olympic-size swimming pools filled with dirt.

• They moved between 6,000 – 7,000 cubic yards per day – Equipment brought in to accommodate and coordinate the dirt work: • 2 off-road dump trucks • 3 D6 dozers were on site • The entire site was graded using high technology GPS installed equipment.

• During peak time, there was $5 million in

equivalent value equipment on site.

• Each of the dump trucks logged 300 hours each.

• 20 employees in various positions on three different crews were working at the site at one time. – More than 10,000 tons, or more than 550 truckloads of granular material were hauled in to provide future contractors adequate access to all areas of the site.

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Congratulations Willmar Public Schools!

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LAKELAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATION WORK SEPTEMBER 2016

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Beams are put in place at Lakeland Elementary School June 1, 2017.

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Workers lay down the footings and the foundation walls Sept. 13, 2016, at the site where the new elementary school is being built. Duininck Concrete is the excavator for this stage of construction.

LAKELAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION JUNE 2017

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Brian Listerud and Ian Anderson place bricks for a wall June 1, 2017, at Lakeland Elementary School.

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Judah Leier, with W.L. Hall Company, works on glazing the windows at Lakeland Elementary School.

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The building is starting to take shape as construction workers are on the job at the site of the new Lakeland Elementary School in June 2017.

Congratulations to Willmar Public Schools

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LAKELAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION AUGUST 2017

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Stephen Plantenberg, above, leads a tour of Lakeland Elementary School during construction Aug. 10, 2017.

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Stephen Plantenberg leads a tour of Lakeland Elementary School during construction Aug. 10, 2017.

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Cement is poured Aug. 10, 2017, at Lakeland Elementary School.

Congratulations

Lakeland Elementary School during construction Aug. 10, 2017.

on the opening of your new school!

Thanks for letting us provide the flooring and ceramic tile.

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LAKELAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEARING COMPLETION NOVEMBER 2017

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Preston Euerle, owner of R.A. Morton and Lakeland Elementary School project manager, stands in front of the new kitchen Nov. 2, 2017, in Lakeland Elementary School in Willmar. The school opened this January.

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The new gymnasium is one of the many parts of the school under construction Nov. 2, 2017, at Lakeland Elementary.

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Lakeland Elementary School, the new elementary school on Lakeland Drive in Willmar, is shown under construction Nov. 2, 2017.

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Willmar Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Jeff Holm stands in a new classroom at Lakeland Elementary School Nov. 2, 2017.

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Nearing Completion

LAKELAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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PRINCIPALS GET A LOOK NOVEMBER 2017

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Lakeland Elementary School, the new elementary school on Lakeland Drive in Willmar, is built with terrazzo flooring.

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This cafeteria ceiling structure, as shown on Nov. 2, 2017, is one of the many special features at Lakeland Elementary School; it is designed to improve acoustics.

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Melissa Wilson, assistant principal, left, and Gretchen Baumgarn, principal, of Lakeland Elementary School in Willmar got an early look at the building on Nov. 15, 2017.

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Large windows are one of the many features at Lakeland Elementary School as shown here Nov. 2, 2017.

to Willmar Public Schools on the completion of Lakeland Elementary School and upgrades to the middle & high schools.

Investing in our children’s education is an asset for everyone.

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Preston Euerle, owner of R.A. Morton and Lakeland Elementary School project manager, left, and Willmar Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Jeff Holm discuss the carpeting installed at the new school, which is designed to allow easy cleanup for liquid spills.

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LAKELAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS VISIT DECEMBER 2017 Dec. 14-21, 2017 – Teachers have their first workshops at Lakeland, and students visit the finished school for the first time.

Dec. 21, 2017 – Lakeland holds its first open house for students, staff and their families.

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Families and students were able to view the media center during an open house Dec. 21, 2017, at Lakeland Elementary School.

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Fifth-grade students walk through the doors of Lakeland Elementary School for the first time all smiles on Dec. 20, 2017. Lakeland students from Roosevelt and Kennedy elementary schools were able to tour their new school ahead of opening day.

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Third-grade student Jaedyn Froehlich looks around his younger brother’s first-grade classroom at Lakeland Elementary School during the family open house Dec. 21, 2017.

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Fifth-grade student Blake Reiman puts his school supplies into his drawer during a tour of Lakeland Elementary School Dec. 20, 2017.

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Students From Page C11

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Fifth-grade students Fey Patino, left, and Ruweyda Ismail put their school supplies in a drawer while unpacking their belongings during their tour of Lakeland Elementary School Dec. 20, 2017.

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Lakeland students who attended school at Roosevelt and Kennedy elementary schools for the first half of the year were able to tour their new school Dec. 20, 2017.

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Lakeland students eat lunch for the first time in their new cafeteria during a school visit Dec. 20, 2017.

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LAKELAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RIBBON CUTTING, OPENING DAY Jan. 2, 2018 – Lakeland’s first day of school

WILLMAR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR HIGH PROJECT Sept. 8, 2017 – Substantial completion of project Oct. 16, 2017 – Dedication of the Brau Performing Arts Center, part of referendum projects at the high school

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The Anez siblings, from left, Sullivan, Sam, Savannah and Lawson, cut the ribbon Jan. 2 to mark the opening day of Lakeland Elementary School. They cut the ribbon in honor of their father, Jared Anez, the Willmar School Board chairman who died unexpectedly in March 2017 in Willmar.

Terry, left, and Donna Brau stand outside of the Brau Performing Arts Center at Willmar Senior High School. The remodeled fine arts theater was dedicated in October 2017.

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Volleyball practice is held in the new gym at Willmar Senior High School, part of the expanded athletic/physical education facilities which opened last fall.

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Melissa Wilson, Lakeland Elementary School assistant principal, holds the ribbon during the ribbon cutting ceremony held on the opening day of Lakeland Elementary School Jan. 2.

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Senior High From Page C13

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At the high school, a new gymnasium, fitness center and gymnastics facility have given the school the ability to keep most of its after-school athletic practices on campus. Previously, the gymnastics team used part of Kennedy’s gym space during its season. Kennedy now has full use of its gym all year.

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A new weight room is one of the many new additions constructed at Willmar Senior High School. Members of the Willmar School Board toured the finished areas of the recent additions at the high school on Oct. 23, 2017. Preston Euerle, owner of R.A. Morton Construction, presented ground updates after the tour.

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Terry and Donna Brau stand on stage in the Brau Performing Arts Center at Willmar Senior High School. The remodeled fine arts theater was dedicated in October 2017.

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WILLMAR MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE CLASSROOMS OPEN Jan. 3, 2017

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A courtyard at the middle school has been enclosed and renovated into additional space for use at the Willmar Middle School.

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Ahead of construction, Science Department Chair Michael Dokkebakken, right, and Principal Mark Miley detail the two middle school science room additions in December 2015. Work began in April 2016.

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Brian Brandt, head custodian at Willmar Middle School, talks about a new handicap-accessible lift. Brandt says they could not build a ramp from the stage in the gym so, as part of the school’s building project, they bought a handicap lift to allow access for all students.

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Kurt Reller works on a new steam boiler in August 2016 at the Willmar Middle School.

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Mike Dokkebakken, eighth-grade earth science teacher, shows his class how to use a Bunsen burner in the new science classroom at Willmar Middle School.

Matthew Garner Lima, left, and Hunter Magnuson, eighth-graders, write on the new smart board in Mike Dokkebakken’s earth science class at Willmar Middle School. Eight new science classrooms were part of the building projects within the Willmar School District completed over the past year.

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