ADAMS TWP — Every building owned by the Mars School District may be in for an analysis by a facilities expert.

John Thomas of Thomas and Williamson Program Management on Tuesday night presented the school board with a plan to go over all five school buildings, the former Middlesex Elementary School building, and the farmhouse on Three Degree Road to determine necessary capital improvement projects.

Thomas would then come up with a detailed engineering analysis that would include a time line of which windows, heating and air conditioning units, floors, roofs, and other items and systems in the buildings likely would need to be replaced, repaired or maintained.

The analysis, which would include the approximate costs for each project, would cost $12,700.

Board member Bonnie Weaver has been pushing for the districtwide analysis for several months so the board and the superintendent would have an idea of the projects needed and could budget for them.

Thomas also presented plans for an enrollment study per grade, a capacity study for each school, and educational facility programming for the middle school.

The enrollment study would look at the district’s housing plans and develop an expected number of new students per grade level in the future.

The capacity study would determine the capacity of each school, and the educational facilities programming would determine whether the spaces in the middle school are optimum for the programs there.

“It’s looking at how well the school works for how your delivering your program,” Thomas said.

But the board members questioned whether the timing is right for the middle school analysis because the curriculum and programs are evolving there.

The district this year will begin giving students at the middle school laptop computers for use in school and at home.

The middle school is also embarking on project-based learning, and has begun partnering with Wheeling Jesuit University in online projects.

Board President Dayle Ferguson said it would be difficult to analyze the best course for the school until the educational program can be more clearly defined.

Board member Rebecca Brown agreed, and said the district may have a better handle on the school’s educational direction in a year or so.

“I’m not so sure the middle school would be the spot to focus on as far as educational programming,” said Superintendent James Budzilek.

Weaver suggested that the facilities analysis be placed on the agenda for a potential vote for the Aug. 12 meeting, while the board will continue to consider the other three options.

The board agreed, and Budzilek said the analysis will appear on next week’s agenda.

Thomas and Williamson has worked with the school board on various projects for 12 years.