Brookland-Cayce High School renovations will be capped at $7.5 million.

The guaranteed maximum price is $7,519,197 with a 5% construction contingency of $312,586.

Some of it will be paid with bond money.

The Capital Projects Improvement fund will pay the rest.

Lexington District 2 trustees unanimously approved it June 28.

A new arena will be built to open next year.

Improvements to the north wing, former vocational wing and auditorium will begin this summer to modernize the school built in 1932.

“Much of the plan to remodel is dictated by the fact that Brookland-Cayce High is land-locked, and there is strong support to preserve the historic existing building,” District 2 Public Information Officer Dawn Kujawa said. “This limits possibilities to remove and replace many portions of that existing facility.”

Alterations include auditorium storage and dressing rooms.

Auditorium and north wing renovations are to be ready by August 2019.

The former vocational wing will be converted into a science and technology hub. Former vocational wing classes will be held in the Lexington 2 Innovation Center to be opened this year.

The wing’s improvement should be completed by the end of 2018.

Kujawa said the budgeted $7.5 million is the anticipated final cost.

This expense will come out of the $225 million improvement project approved by voters in 2014.

Roofing and asbestos removal costs in the former vocational wing will come from the Capital Projects Improvement fund.