Safe rooms as tornado shelters at DeSoto schools

HERNANDO, Miss. (AP) ? DeSoto County school board members have approved bids to build safe rooms on five of six campuses targeted for the structures.

Bids for work at Hernando, Horn Lake, Lewisburg, Olive Branch and Walls elementary schools received unanimous approval on Monday.

The Commercial Appeal reports (http://bit.ly/WKEfSU ) a sixth school, Hope Sullivan Elementary, also is slated to receive a safe room, but board members rejected bids and will rebid the project because of a procedural error.

The safe rooms, which are reinforced, stand-alone buildings, are intended as safe locations during a tornado. The Federal Emergency Management Agency and Mississippi EMA are providing 95 percent of the funding through a grant.

School board members in December approved the projected local share of the work, bringing the local figure to $405,293.

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Information from: The Commercial Appeal, http://www.commercialappeal.com

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