Canopy Project Planned For Front, Back Of Cookeville High School

The Putnam County School System will help keep students out of the rain with new canopies at Cookeville High School.

Deputy Schools Director Tim Martin said a ball park figure of $350,000 has been budgeted for the project. Martin said the hopeful goal is to have canopies at the main entrance and rear bus pickup entrance finished by the start of school in the fall.

“The hurdle that we’re going through right now is with ESSER funds,” Martin said. “School systems all over the state are doing things such as this right now. So it just takes time to get companies to come and work because everybody’s busy right now.”

Martin said the system is still in the phase where the project is being looked at by a professional, there are no bids in yet. He said canopies at Cookeville High School has been a long-time issue.

“Those were on the original drawings for the school,” Martin said. “So they got cut for budget considerations at the time the school was built. So it absolutely is something that we would like to have had for a long time.”

Cookeville High School first opened its doors to students in 1996.