CCSD Trustees vote to repair only elementary school in Mt. Charleston

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - The Clark County School District voted to repair the only elementary school in Mt. Charleston.

CCSD voted 5-1 Wednesday to repair Lundy Elementary School.

Katie Williams replacement for CCSD Trustee District B, Nakia Jackson-Hale, pushed the board to reconsider re-opening Lundy Elementary School.

The school closed in August 2023 after Tropical Storm Hilary hit the mountain. Trustees voted earlier this year that the damage was too extensive to repair.

Back in August the school board voted 4-3 to not move forward with the multi-million dollar repairs for the school.

Williams was one of the trustees who voted no.

Jackson-Hale says she visited the school and spoke with Mt. Charleston residents.

During Wednesday’s meeting Jackson-Hale said there were discrepancies in the reports she received from the district regarding Lundy’s repairs and costs.

“There are items that are construction defects that are not directly related to the floods which I think inflates the estimate that was presented to the constituents,” Jackson-Hale said.

Jackson-Hale questioned the nearly $6 million dollars the district had stated earlier would cost to repair Lundy. She stated CCSD was paid $1.5 million in insurance money to repair Lundy, and had 90 days to ask for more but the district never did that.

During the nearly 2 and half hour meeting, the trustees went back and forth about how to move forward including questioning the difference of ‘rebuilding’ and ‘repairing’ the school.

After the motion passed, residents were heard clapping.

“I am happy to see they made the right decision we moved to the mountain because we wanted a school this has been a very long drawn out process,” resident Jessica Thompson said.

Abraham Camejo, the construction liaison for the Bond Oversight Committee for CCSD has been present for many meetings regarding Lundy.

Back in June, Camejo invited FOX5 exclusively to walk the outside of Lundy to assess any damage.

From the beginning he said the damage was not so bad.

“We should have had the school repaired a long time ago we can do big construction projects here in Las Vegas,” Camejo said.

It is not clear when the repairs would start and when it would be completed by however, the residents are hoping the school can reopen by August of 2025.

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