Mathews County Public Schools is facing a number of building needs, the most pressing of which is the water situation at Thomas Hunter Middle School.

Six classrooms, two bathrooms and the nurse’s office at the middle school all currently lack running water and while plans are underway to address the faulty pipes, a contract has not yet been awarded to do the work.

Superintendent of Schools Nancy Welch updated members of the Mathews County School Board on capital improvement and maintenance needs during the board’s Nov. 20 meeting in the Mathews High School media center.

Welch told the board that she is working on getting two more quotes before selecting a firm to do the repairs, but she expects the work to run about $10,000. County supervisors have already given her the go-ahead for the emergency repairs, but she needs either two more bids or “no-bids” (firms indicating that they have considered and passed on the project) according to the rules of the county&...