Architects from ECI, the Anchorage firm designing the new building for Ayaprun Elitnaurvik, the Bethel Yup'ik immersion school, will be in Bethel on Thursday to meet with the community about what to include in the new building.
Ayaprun's principal, Zachary Bastoky, says that the first meeting is intended to be an open-ended discussion of what people liked about the old building, and what they would like to see in the new building when it's completed.
The new building is tentatively scheduled to open in three years. The budget has not been set for the project because the school district has not received a settlement from the insurance company yet.
The first design meeting for the new Ayaprun school building is scheduled for 7:15 p.m. Thursday at the Kipusvik building, the present location of the immersion school. The discussion is expected to last one-and-a-half to two hours.
The old Ayaprun school building was destroyed in a fire two winters ago.