Recent actions by school boards in Northeast Michigan:

∫ The Alpena Public Schools Board of Education’s Property Committee recently learned construction crews working on the Thunder Bay Junior High School track renovation have backfilled, restored the topsoil, and seeded grass around the track.

Supervisor of Facilities Kurt Konieczny said the rubberized surface was completed. He also noted contractor Current Surfaces said only one-eighth-inch-spike track running shoes are appropriate for the new surface to maintain the life of the track.

“We’re going to look at getting some signage to enforce those regulations,” he said. “They also noted that bikes, scooters, dogs, for example, should not be permitted on the new surface.”

Konieczny also shared an update on the district’s performance energy bond with Trane Energy. He said a walk in cooler and freezer, an original, water-cooled refrigeration system from 1967, has been replaced. In the old system, water ran through the waterline 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to cool the units.

“We were paying for city water and then we were paying for sewer,” he said.

He said it has been upgraded to fan cooled units.

Additionally, boiler repiping has been completed on the boilers at Thunder Bay Junior High School.

∫ The Alpena Community College Board of Trustees agreed to purchase $66,995 ionization units to improve air quality within the college from Control Solutions Inc.. The ionizers will remove airborne contaminants and neutralize pathogens, officials said, and will be installed into all of the college’s air handlers, rooftop units, and unit ventilators on the Alpena campus.

Additionally, the board approved an audit of the 2020 fiscal year by the firm Straley, Lamp, and Kraenzlein and agreed to submit the college’s five-year master plan for capital outlay projects to the State Budget Office.