Some of Georgetown’s most prominent buildings remain veiled in scaffolding as the university pushes to complete its most recent maintenance projects before much of the available bond funding expires at the end of March.

According to Karen Frank, vice president of Facilities and Student Housing, renovations to the Yates Field House and White Gravenor — two of the largest ongoing projects — are expected to be completed by the end of the spring break, several weeks before bonds issued in 2001 by the District of Columbia that are financing many of the projects are set to expire.

“Almost all of the projects currently underway are bond-funded with the exception of the Gaston roof and the West Road realignment,” she said.

The Gaston roof repair comes as the last phase in a $3.5 million Healy maintenance initiative begun in August of last year.

The other aspects of the Healy project included “window, gutter and masonry repairs on the west side, fire alarm replacement, electrical upgrades [and] Gaston partial restoration,” Frank said.

The restoration of Gaston, which was completed last month, included the repainting of murals and the replacement of floor, carpeting and seating. Frank said that the university did not have the time or funding to do a complete restoration.

Frank said that the university is also working on relocating the West Road, which leads to Yates, further west to accommodate for the construction of the McDonough School of Business center.

Frank said that university officials are also hoping to complete renovations to the Leavey Esplanade by the end of March. Due to problems with water infiltration stemming from the building’s initial construction, workers had to remove everything off the esplanade in order to replace sealing and waterproofing on Leavey’s roof.

Frank added that the esplanade, previously characterized by the presence of grass and trees, will be returned to “the kind of active space that it was.”

Workers are also in the process of repairing the ICC’s small outdoor amphitheater due to fears that its loosening brick and cement have become a safety hazard. An outdoor projection screen may also be installed in the amphitheater.

In addition to the repair of its facilities, the university is also hoping to begin a series of improvements over spring break as part of an ongoing initiative intended to yield a higher level of pedestrian safety around campus.

Encompassed within spring break plans are widening the sidewalk stretching between New South and Lauinger Library as well as repainting street lines and traffic signs along Tondorf and Library Walk.

The university is also planning to replace the traffic booths at the university’s Prospect Street and Canal Road entrances. Frank said she hopes to “make them look more like Georgetown” while at the same time enlarging them to accommodate two people. Frank said that the larger capacity might be necessary to help deal with a security crisis.

The university is beginning to look for funding for a fourth round of deferred maintenance projects as well, Frank said