Province approves $1.9 million for Delta schools upgrade plans<\/p>\n
Published 12:05 pm Thursday, April 9, 2026<\/p>\n
The province is funding five minor capital projects at Delta schools, to the tune of more than $1.9 million.<\/p>\n
The funds represents about 27 per cent of the total $6,991,650 fiscal investment in facilities and infrastructure the school district asked for in September.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday evening (April 7), school board trustees passed a bylaw authorizing spending on the five projects, a step required under the Ministry of Education and Child Care project procurement procedures and guidelines in order to unlock the funding.<\/p>\n
The projects supported by the ministry include $900,000 to renew the roof at Cliff Drive Elementary, $480,000 to replace gym rooftop units at Brooke and Gibson elementary schools, $240,000 to replace the chiller at Delta Secondary, $200,000 to replace the playground at Sunshine Hills Elementary, and $100,000 for food equipment and infrastructure improvements for Heath, Jarvis and Port Guichon elementary schools.<\/p>\n
The district submitted a list of 14 projects for provincial funding. <\/p>\n
Those not chosen by the ministry include replacing heat pumps across the district, HVAC upgrades at Burnsview Secondary and South Delta Secondary, roof renewal at Holly Elementary, replacing a high-voltage transformer at Sands Secondary, replacing AC and UV units at Chalmers Elementary, re-piping HVAC at various secondary schools, upgrading direct digital controls at various schools, adding accessibility features to the playground at Annieville Elementary, and replacing the playground at Gibson Elementary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Province approves $1.9 million for Delta schools upgrade plans Published 12:05 pm Thursday, April 9, 2026 The province…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-594529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}