By Isaiah Cordova

If you’ve been in the library, the band room, or in the auxiliary gym in the past two weeks, starting in late September, then you’ve probably heard or smelled the noises of construction. The construction is repairing the rubber seams between the roof and the walls. After over 20 years of constant expansion and contraction, the rubber seams start wearing down and tearing. Mike White, the school district’s Director of Maintenance, said “The repairs started in August, on schools like the elementary school and Benjamin, where we tried to get those done before school started.” White continues, “The middle school and high school started after those finished up, and they should be done, at most, next week [Oct. 12-19].”

Students also reported a smell coming from the roofs of the rooms where most damage was done. White explained, “The smell came from the adhesive, a rubber cement like the kind you would use on a bike tire.”