Article content Algoma District School Board will spend nearly $18 million on 14 capital projects at its schools and main office in the coming year. The English public board is “tendering more projects than normal,” superintendent of business Joe Santa Maria told trustees during a recent meeting. If tenders come in “higher than expected” the board “can trade them off” with other projects. Work is planned at Elliot Lake Secondary School (parking, site upgrades, stairwell), Echo Bay Public School (classroom and washroom upgrades), White Pines Collegiate and Vocational School (washrooms, ceiling and lighting, public address, shop upgrades), Central Algoma Secondary School (doors, window, public address upgrades), East View Public School (heating, ventilation and air conditioning, classroom upgrades), Kiwedin Public School (interior upgrades), Korah Collegiate and Vocational School (north entrance, ventilation, tech shop upgrades), R.M. Moore Public School (interior upgrades), Tarentorus Public School (interior upgrades, roof replacement, addition), education centre (windows, signage, ventilation, exterior upgrades), Mountain View (roof, ventilation, classroom upgrades), Isabel Fletcher (heating, ventilation and air conditioning upgrdes), Esten Park (install accessible limited-access elevator), Adult Education Centre (lighting and interior upgrades) are scheduled. Total cost is $17.7 million. Provincial capital dollars must be used to deal with accommodation pressures, facilitiy conditions and school consolidations, said director of education Lucia Reece in a report to trustees.