The total allocation was $325,000.

“The bathrooms have been there since the schools were built,” said Phillip Rountree, director of auxiliary services for Halifax County Schools. “We're not sure what we'll have when we pull the walls.”

The school system has $862,829 in its lottery account, board Chairman James Pierce noted.

Commissioner Rives Manning wanted to know how many bathrooms the schools have, to which Rountree responded two sets each with bathrooms also located in pre-kindergarten classrooms.

“I know it's not cheap,” Manning said. “I just want to make sure the money doesn't get diverted to any other source.”

Rountree responded the money will not be used for any other purpose.

School system spokesman Keith Hoggard said the plan has to go the state Department of Instruction for approval and then go to bids. “It will be summer before the work starts.”

In another matter today, the board allowed the Littleton Volunteer Fire Department to begin working to finance a new truck.

The fire department held a public hearing on the matter last month, in which no one spoke, according to documents contained in today's agenda packet.

The fire department, according to a resolution, is determined to undertake a project for a Pierre fire truck with the amount financed not to exceed $285,000 with an annual interest rate not to exceed 2.97 percent. The financing term is not to exceed 15 years.