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BC-MT--School Vandalism,0348
Vandals glue door locks at Bozeman HS
BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) -- Vandals put super glue in the locks of about 40 doors at Bozeman High School, causing damage that may cost as much as $10,000 to repair, a newspaper reported Saturday.
"It is not going to be insignificant, unfortunately," Ed Sondeno, who's in charge of school buildings and repairs, told the Bozeman Daily Chronicle.
The vandalism occurred Wednesday night or early Thursday. Wednesday evening the high school was full of people: The speech and debate team was hosting its parents night, girls teams were playing basketball in the gym and the school was open to the public.
Sondeno said he got a call early Thursday morning from head custodian Arnie DeHaan.
Locks on classroom doors had been glued shut in the B, C, D, E and G wings, said Gary Griffith, who's in charge of the district's major construction projects.
Mountain Locksmithing & Security Center was called and sent a crew of six who spent four hours getting all the classrooms open, said company owner Winston Morrissey.
"We've been able to salvage about 26 of the 40 locks," Morrissey said. Salvaged locks were reinstalled Friday.
Some of the locks date back to 1957, when the school was built, and repair parts aren't available, Griffith said.
School officials now must decide what to do about the remaining doors that cannot be locked.
The district can't simply go out and buy new locks at the hardware store, Morrissey said. The old locks were Corbin Unit locks, extremely specialized and expensive items used in government buildings and hospitals, he explained.
"It's a terrible waste of taxpayers' money," Morrissey said. "It's a hardship on the students, a hardship on the administrators, and it's going to continue until this is resolved."
The school district had already planned to seek bids to replace the old high school locks with a new computerized electronic security system, similar to the electronic "key" systems used in motels, Griffith said, but going out to bid would take months.
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Information from: Bozeman Daily Chronicle, http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com
(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)