POULSBO — The nipping and tucking will continue in June as North Kitsap High School’s halls and walls will undergo a facelift marking the final phase of a lengthy campus modernization project.

In 2002, the first half of the project renovated the gymnasium as well as the school’s H building. The next phase will complete the makeover as it targets the library, commons and administrative spaces.

The design process for Phase 2 is moving forward and the NKSD board of directors set to make its decision on the schematic design in December followed by design development, slated for January.

Parents, students, teachers and community members interested in the project are invited to attend a study session at 5 p.m. Thursday at NKSD student support services on Caldart Avenue.

At the session, the NKSD’s capital facilities directors and Bob Harthorne of the project’s contract firm Harthorne Hagen Architects will lay out the project’s schematic design for the board.

“The big central piece of this project is the commons,” said NKSD director of capital programs Robin Shoemaker.

The language in the capital programs bond funding the estimated $11.2 million project calls for square footage to be added to the commons.

To accomplish this, project developers are planning to play musical office spaces by adding the space to form a new library area while relocating the existing library, administrative and commons areas, creating an upgraded central piece for the building.

“Once the library is finished we can take the existing (library) space and reconfigure that for administration,” said NKSD capital programs manager Dennis Burch. “Then, after administration is complete, will come the commons.”

In addition, each classroom wing will also be upgraded.

“Will that allow for two lunch periods rather than three?” school board president Catherine Ahl asked at the board’s latest update Oct. 28.

“Where will the kids eat (during construction)?” director Dan Delaney asked.

Burch didn’t directly answer either query, saying, “This is the type of detail that we will be bringing to you at the study session.”