Flood-damaged Red Bank Primary School

With the clock ticking down to a Sept. 9 first day of class, primary school students will be able to use the library and will have a new gym floor to play on for the first time since Superstorm Sandy flooded the building.

The building is 100 percent functional, said Thomas Berger Red Bank School district facilities director.Watch the video above to see the work done.“There are still many things to do, but we did the things we needed to do to get the school operational,” he said. “Now, it’s catch up on the lose ends.”

Those things include replacing furniture on a one-to-one basis, some plumbing work and floor replacement under cabinets, he said.“Everything here works,” Berger said.The primary school, located on the banks of the Swimming River, had several inches of water in the one-story building when officials returned after Superstorm Sandy. Primary School students were temporarily housed at the middle school, while crews replaced carpeting with vinyl Ceramic tile in 16 of the 33 classrooms that are used daily in the primary school.

The primary school reopened on Nov. 26 after replacement and sanitizing work had been done to allow students to safely return to the building, but additional work remained in non-classroom areas.“I can say we’re in a much better place than when we reopened in November,” said Laura C. Morana, superintendent of schools. “The work our team has done has been happening for the last 10 months and is an ongoing process.”

There are tangible results, such as shiny new white floors in the school gym and library, both of which were damaged by flooding and put on the back burner to get class rooms repaired first, last fall.The gym is ready for use, however a large moveable wall to divide the gym had to be removed because it was water damaged, Berger said.

The library has been closed since the storm after it wound up being used as a storage area for class room furniture and items displaced from other parts of the building where work was going on. Equipment for a math and engineering class, which also used the library, was put on a cart and moved from room to room last school year, Morana said.New Primary School principal Luigi Laugelli joined the district on July 1 as the school moved into full repair mode. He said he wasn’t daunted by what he saw in the building.

“It’s not the physical structure, it’s the people inside, the quality of the staff and the families,” he said.Teachers came in early to working on their classrooms and volunteers helped out the district prepare the building, Laugelli said.Books and any supplies on lower shelves or on floors was lost to flooding, he said and new books have been ordered. When charities and other schools and individuals seeking to help after the storm contacted the district, Morana said the district asked for books. Those books went right in to class rooms last school term and may will find their way back to the library this year, she said.

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