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SVES Cafetorium to open next month
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Posted on Oct 21 2006
The San Vicente Elementary School will end this school year on a happy note, with construction work on its Cafetorium now complete and ready for turn over to the school.
SVES principal Jim Rayphand told Saipan Tribune during a recent Public School System principals’ meeting at the Aqua Resort Club that the contractor of the project would turn it over to his school next month.
Rayphand said there would be a grand opening ceremony for the Cafeterium soon. The new building will be used to hold in-house school presentations and for serving hot lunches.
The contractor had initially made slow progress because they could only work from 3pm to 6pm daily to avoid distracting the school’s operations. Last summer, the contractor had more time to work on the project.
In December 2005, the Board of Education and the Public School System led the groundbreaking ceremony for the project, which entails building a 5,600-square-foot cafeteria and auditorium within the SVES compound. A cafeteria and auditorium in one, the cafetorium project was awarded to AIC Marianas.
This is a federally funded project that was awarded to PSS in November 2004. The project cost was estimated to be a little over $935,000. Official construction started on Jan. 3 this year.
The new cafeteria, which would also serve as a multi-purpose building that could host large meetings of up to 500 persons, used the Kagman Elementary School Cafeteria/Multi-Purpose Building design.
The new cafeteria will have central air-conditioning, an elevated stage, a dining area of 3,500 square feet, a scullery, food preparation and warming area, office, bathrooms, electrical room, and lots of storage areas.
PSS officials noted that this would most probably be the very last construction project at SVES as there is no other space for buildings unless the baseball field is sacrificed for future classroom expansion.
