Last month, Roseville High School initiated construction for the 500 wing and gym foyer bathrooms. The company responsible for completing bathroom renovations, Buskirk Building Solutions, projects construction to cease mid-May.

According to RHS principal David Byrd, the initial completion date was extended due to complications involving rainy weather.

“A lot more often than not, when a contractor gets in and starts tearing things up and tearing things out, they might run into some delays,” Byrd said.

Though not a learning environment, students still occupy and utilize the bathrooms throughout the school day and according to Byrd, they needed to be updated to meet this ‘standard of use.’ Another factor which motivated the bathroom renovations was the high traffic received from the community through various sporting events and special occasions.

According to RHS teacher and coach Josh Errecart, these improvements should help improve Roseville’s reputation not only within the on-site community, but to outsiders as well.

“I don’t want to call it the face of Roseville, but, ironically, a lot of the visitors see that first,” Errecart said. “It’s nice to have something well taken care of and up to date that people see.”
Though general responses to the bathroom renovations remain optimistic, some sports and other after school activities face disruptions with the construction timeline.

Sophomore track member Adrian Perez believes renovations will help the program and RHS in the future, though they presently make the logistics of changing for track inconvenient.
“Long-term-wise it should help out,” Perez said. “A lot of people change in there, and it will be cleaner and easier for people to use.”

RHS plans to halt renovations during CAASP testing and final exams.