East Brainerd Elementary SchoolDesign work will start immediately on a new East Brainerd Elementary School.
Hamilton County commissioners voted Wednesday to move ahead with the project, ending a monthlong standoff between the commission and the county school board.
Gary Waters, assistant superintendent for auxiliary services, said he’ll meet with architects today to get work under way on the $22 million school, which is projected to hold as many as 1,100 students.
The commission vote alleviated concerns that the delay would mean the school wouldn’t be ready by its planned opening date of August 2014. But Waters said it still will be a stretch to get the school completed in 22 months when the design and construction process usually lasts about 26 months.
“It’s really pushing it. It just is,” Waters said.