LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - The Lincoln school district is about to take a major step in the recovery from a fire that destroyed the district office more than eight years ago.
The school board is expected to vote next month on a nearly $1.15 million construction project agreement to build a backup data center, the Lincoln Journal Star reported. It’ll be constructed in the basement of the building built to replace the office burned in May 2011. The blaze was started by a disgruntled teacher who was later sentenced to prison for arson.
The fire wiped out nearly everything in the building, including severely damaging the computer system that held email servers, grades, payroll and other records.
District officials worked with University of Nebraska-Lincoln information technology staff to get the data system back online, The district built an off-site data center near Lincoln High School about a year later.
The backup had been maintained in leased space at the university, but the district had always planned to build a secondary data center in the basement of the replacement building, said district operations director Scott Wieskamp.
The district wants the data center finished this coming summer so computer equipment could be installed before school is in session, Wieskamp said.
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