With the school year ending, Port Townsend School District’s facilities will receive some much-needed TLC during the off-season.

All four school campuses, Salish Coast Elementary School, Blue Heron Middle School, OCEAN School, and Port Townsend High School, will receive a wide range of repairs, renovations, and other upgrades while students are on summer break.

The school district’s board of directors were briefed on the matter at its last meeting.

For Salish Coast Elementary, workers will be installing a new heat pump, tack-able surfaces to hang up students’ artwork, new storage cabinets, and raising a hoop house. The new heat pump will be much more energy-efficient and will provide significant operational cost savings. The tack-able surfaces will be installed on certain walls in the elementary school, and the new cabinets will expand storage capacity at the school. Lastly, the hoop house, set to be 30-by-48 feet will support the production garden in the front lawn.

At Blue Heron Middle School, the fire alarm system will be upgraded, the intercom system will be revamped, and the roof will be restored.

The middle school’s current fire alarm system will be upgraded with a modern panel along with new devices such as detectors, strobes, and pull stations for improved safety. The updated intercom system will vastly enhance the current set-up, which is not user-friendly according to school district staff, and new bells, clocks, and an intercom will be set up. As for the roof restoration, the membrane will be resurfaced with AlphaGuard multilayer coating and the roof’s shingles will be completely replaced.

OCEAN School will receive a 30-foot outdoor tent on the campus to be used for meals and lessons.

As for Port Townsend High, the campus will have a heat and ventilation upgrade installed, several entryways to school buildings will be painted, and the Lincoln Building will receive newly-painted plywood.

The heat and ventilation upgrade will add modern, mini-split heating and cooling units in classroom spaces, the library, and the cafeteria to provide improved air conditioning to the school’s main building. Officials said the improvements will improve energy efficiency , reliability, and comfort over the current ventilation system. The new paint for school entryways will be applied to the gym, annex, main building, and Gael Stuart Building.

Lastly, the newly-painted plywood, which will feature murals as well, will be installed on the upper row by the high school’s art classroom. It will help with security as well as provide a new art-based focal point that can be observed from around the campus and surrounding areas.