The Space - Jeremy Dortch

Students paint the room with carefully chosen colors
over fall break. All total,  over 40 volunteer hours
went in to painting.

As a group, the space design team had designed the rooms to increase student learning and engagement. Furniture was ordered to match the style and uses of each particular room. The work orders were sent through over fall break, but many of our items were not actually ordered due to the district Risk Management divison. Risk Management did not like that we were ordering rugs, a microwave, barstools and lamps. Risk Management also did not like the vendors that we ordered from, so they did not put any work orders through many vendors such as Ikea. Which we used to maximize our budget.

Parker Muck and I are going to meet with Risk Management to try to convince them to let us order what we want, and to let us order from non-district approved vendors. As a backup plan if that meeting fails, we are meeting with Seth Elliot from Office Scapes to help us design the room and order furniture, as Office Scapes is a district approved vendor. We were not told about the district approved vendors until after we put in the work order, but we are working hard to come up with a compromise. The new deadline for the room design project is January 2015.