Construction for our new beloved K-8 school brings with it some obvious and visible earth-moving activity, as well as some pesky inconveniences. This memo is to give you as much information as possible about what’s happening to our campus and how you might be affected.

POWER OUTAGE THIS MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND – NO WEB SITE ACCESS
Since our new school will require an underground power infrastructure, PGE is in the process of switching our campus from overhead electrical wiring to underground power.

Beginning at 5 p.m., Friday, May 28, all power will be out at the high school building. The outage may last anywhere from 24-72 hours.

Even if you do not have a student in the high school and it is a long holiday weekend, this electrical switchover affects all parents in the following ways:

• No access to any campus Web sites, including valleycatholic.org, ssmoministries.org, maryville.org, ssmo.org and unitedwethrive.org. However, there will be a basic campus landing page visible for anyone who types in any of our Web addresses from an off-site computer during the power outage.
• No access to Powerschool to access your student’s grades.
• No electronic access to Friday Folder after 5 p.m. Friday, May 28 until next week.
• No ability to retrieve information from a teacher Web page.
• No internet service on campus.
• Online Giving, Facebook, Twitter and Alumni Weekend Registration will still be accessible because the information for those areas is hosted on servers off of our campus.

All power affecting the above is scheduled and anticipated to be restored by the start of business on Tuesday morning, June 1.

POWER OUTAGE IN CONVENT & ADMINISTRATION OFFICES TUESDAY, JUNE 1
Later in the day on June 1, the Convent building will be without power from 2:30-6:30 p.m. This will mean that the groups listed below will be without access to phones, computers, lights, etc. for the afternoon. Unlike the weekend outage, this will not, however, interfere with our Web site availability or the transfer of email communication for computers outside of the convent building.

• All of Valley Catholic Elementary School
• Business Offices for the SSMO Foundation and the Finance Dept.
• Offices of VCS President Sr. Rita Watkins, SSMO Ministries President Sr. Adele Marie Altenhofen and the Convent front desk
• The residence of the Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon

Power-related outages may occur frequently throughout the construction project. We will always do our best to convey when you could be affected.

Posted by Thomas Kohler in Construction Alerts, Facebook & Twitter