Monday’s rain not only temporarily flooded low-lying places across Selma, but students, faculty and staff in the library and cafeteria at Meadowview Elementary School also were doused.

The roofs in those two areas have leaks.

“The situation at Meadowview is kind of dire,” said Selma School Superintendent Don Jefferson.

Last week before Thanksgiving break, Jefferson and Ray Mattiews, Director of Auxiliary Services for Selma City Schools, toured Meadowview to look at the roofs in the two buildings. Earlier this year, the school system contracted to replace the roof on the main building.

On Monday in the library, “[rain] was just kind of pouring,” Jefferson said.

The roofs on the buildings were constructed of a rubber-type material, which began to wear out, Mattiews said.

Initially, the system replaced the roof on the 15,000-square-foot main building with a metal roof.

On Dec. 9 at its official meeting, the Selma School Board is expected to approve a $194,000 contract with McKee & Associates of Montgomery to place metal roofs on the library and cafeteria, which total 17,000 square feet.

“This is something we need to move forward on as fast as we can,” Mattiews told the school board.

The school system has $9.3 million in its capital projects budget for the fiscal year that ends June 30, 2011, but nearly $7 million of that money is pledged for other projects, said Holland Powell, a school board member.

“The money is there. I say we do this,” he told other school board members.

The contractor must guarantee the roofs for 20 years, according to state Department of Education rules.

The school’s auxiliary services will mend other leaky roofs, for example, at Selma High School, Payne, Knox and Cedar Park elementary schools, Matthiews said.

None of those roofs are in the shape of the two at Meadowview, he added.