Starting Over 2019 - Next Steps
Progress Prints 2/27/2019
Facility Listening Tour Dates:
ADHOC Facilities Committee:
The district will be forming an ADHOC Facilities Committee following all of the listening sessions in the upcoming month. This committee of about 20, will be made up of community members, business representatives, farmers, teachers, students, administrators, architects and our engineering firm. There will be a sign up sheet available at each listening session if you are interested in this committee. The task for this committee will be to review all of the listening tour information and participate in developing scenarios along side our architects and engineers. Please know that I expect this committee to meet weekly until scenarios are complete. Once the scenarios are complete, the district will present plan options to the community for feedback.
Below are the links to the feedback that was gathered from the Community Planning Process meetings that were held on November 8 & 11.
Notes from meeting on November 8, 2018
Notes from meeting on November 10, 2018
If you were unable to attend one of the Community Planning Process meetings, click the link below to offer your feedback.
Community Planning Process Survey
Board of Education Meeting Recap:
The Board hosted a facilities workshop this past week. They reviewed the proposed plan to use about 4 million of our SAVE dollars in order to fix primary systems. We will ask the Board to officially approve this at the December 12 school board meeting. Please be aware the items selected to be repaired or replaced are primary systems, which if to fail, would close a building down for students until it could be repaired or replaced such as heating and electrical. The board was provided with needs at each of the five school buildings.
Next the Board committed to the following regarding school facilities:
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We are starting over, there is no plan
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We are committed to find a solution regarding our facility needs.
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We are committed to gather community feedback and ideas via diverse methods related to our facility needs that will result in a plan based upon community input.
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We are committed to align our learning environments to our educational goals.
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We are committed to video stream, or look at solutions to televise any of the facility listening meetings.
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We are committed to keep an open mind and draw consensus.
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We are committed to keep the public informed and provide access to meeting minutes from the listening events on an ongoing basis.
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We are committed to create a chart with question/ answers on our new facilities tab page released today.
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We are committed to our community members touring our school facilities.
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We are committed to begin our listening sessions this December and host one at each school site and continue to host additional small group meeting sessions within our community as needed through March.
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Safety and security with secure entryways included in the plan
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We have to stay within our parameters of funding or bonding available
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We have to examine costs for operations as a part of the process
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We need to have a long term plan
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Listening sessions extended through December-March
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No consideration of a bond vote during the year 2019
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Create a community ADHOC committee to review all of the information gathered to vet pro’s and con’s (Information about the make of this committee will be forthcoming. We are looking for teachers, parents, community members, farmers, city officials, and other community representatives to participate that will consist of approximately 20 members)
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Following the ADHOC review, the architect will provide scenarios facility plans and analysis
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Community members will have an opportunity to participate in a survey to examine options following input from the community and committee
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This process will be completed during the year of 2019
