Build More Schools????????

I just got done reading the Evansville Review article on the school boards progress on this building study. I hope everyone See's what it is saying.

First of all I guess the maintenance that our schools get needs to be better. Second the study says how many more rooms are needed and square feet that the Plunket study says we need. Third of all the new high school was just built how many years ago and they did not have the ADA issued taken care of.

On the first subject maintenance. One would think that any issues of replacing windows, furnace's, roofs and etc. would be a ongoing item in a budget. It seems that if you want to keep a building going you have to preform day to day and year to year maintenance. I think some of this is being done but, some of the big ticket items have not been budgeted and or approved for.

Some of these buildings have been here since my dad went to high school and he is 80 years old now. How do you think these buildings kept going. They took care of them.

Second subject on the Plunkett study. It's a study first of all. You mean to tell me that the staff can't decide how much square feet is needed. It appears they seem to have got along good so far. It is like someone telling me that based on my family needs I would have to have a house that was so many square feet. I think I can do that. I don't need to have the average of some other houses to decide what I needed. I guess I would say that if rooms are needed add them on. I don't think we need to spend millions of dollars on a entire building.

What is with this ADA thing at the middle school. They have an elevator and ramps that was added several years ago. I don't understand what that means. Now, they tell us the High School does not meet all the ADA requirements. Who is suppose to make sure these things are done. This school was just built a few years ago for how many million.

I hope everyone goes to the Board meeting next Monday and we get some answers and different options that what has been put out there so far. I see no option of adding on some class rooms.

Congratulations to Dick & Milissa

Well, the election is over for now. Our candidate's Woulfe & Hamann are going to go onto the big election day that will soon be upon us.

I hope everyone takes the time to really look at these two. The amount of time and dedication they both put in researching and providing the "true" numbers and stats is what this school district needs. With this school study project really taking all kinds of turns we need people like these two to sort it all out. I am amazed that this firm hired to look into this has basically said we need 30-40 million dollars worth of remodeling and or building. I am not convinced.

I have read on the Observer a comment about if this firm Plunket and something or other is going to do more that just do this study. That is, will they be the ones we use if something is built or remodeled? Well, I believe they will. Should the district have had someone else to do a study? What about our own people from within or in the district? I am sure there are many people that are well qualified that could have assisted. The district is always having public committee's doing one thing or another such as the budget process this year. Why not this study?

Twenty four thousand dollars was spent by this school district to have the study done. Money that I believe was not well spent. The study pointed out many issues that could and probably were already on the minds of the staff and others. I still can't believe that this study says a classroom needs to be such and such a size. My goodness, classes have been held in all of our schools for years and everything seemed to be just fine. Now Plunket says they are too small. I never have seen anything like this.

People, you need to pay close attention to this issue and become involved. This is your school district and money. You need to let the board members know what you think.

You need board members like Dick and Milissa to help a couple of the other board members keep things in check.