San Benito school district working to solve its Aftermath Problems

Few dollar figures are available as city and school district officials tally the damage from Hurricane Dolly.

School officials reported that storm winds and rain destroyed the roof of the district's facilities complex, which will cost about $1.5 million to repair.

The 97,000-square-foot building also lost five bay doors, Superintendent of Schools Antonio Limón said.

The scoreboard at Bobby Morrow Stadium also was badly damaged, Limón said.

The scoreboard cost $486,000 at the time it was installed when the stadium was built in 2006. The video screen sustained major damage in the July 23 hurricane, Limón said.

Fifteen city buildings were damaged, an assessment released by the city shows.

Officials did not have immediate cost estimates for repairs, City Manager Victor Treviño said. The assessment was done to show the Federal Emergency Management Agency damages city property sustained from Dolly, he said.

Insurance deductibles for city buildings vary, City Secretary Lupita Passement said. The percentages for deductibles are 1, 2 and 5 percent, but details were not immediately available.

Values for the buildings affected by the hurricane also were not immediately available.

FEMA officials were expected to travel around the city Wednesday to inspect the damaged property.

FEMA will put a price tag on the damages after the agency's representatives see the extent of the problems, Treviño said.

The school district's deductible is 3 percent of the value of each building. Limón said the district paid $2.5 million for the facilities complex.

Structures ranging from the municipal building to the wastewater treatment plant were affected by Dolly. Most of the buildings sustained roof damage, the assessment document states.

The city's library sustained moderate damage and the community building, which houses the museum, also had moderate roof and water damage.

The city's two water towers were also damaged, Treviño said.

The cost to repair the Freddy Fender water tower is estimated at $15,000, he said. A water tower on Oscar Williams Road had an estimated $220,000 worth of damage, he said.

Within the school district, Limón said there was mostly minor damage.

"Our schools, thank God, fared well," Limón added.

Although water seeped through a number of windows in school buildings, there was no serious damage.

"That's expected when you have a hurricane," he said of minor damages.

The buildings sustained only minor damage because most are relatively new, he said.

About 15 windows at Veterans Memorial Academy and about 10 at Riverside Middle School were blown, he said.