It enables us to really maintain the things that work well about the plan, it creates a new identity in a nice, tight compact way.” “We are taking advantage of existing place and keeping core spaces together. “ make it look like a new building school and also function as one,” he said. 26.Īlderiso said the proposed additions and renovations are intuitive proposals that take advantage of existing spaces and efficiently connect existing corridors.Ī two-story addition is proposed for the front of the middle school, which will essentially create a new identity for the school with a new entrance way, Alderiso said. Rich Alderiso, chief operating officer at DIGroupArchitecture, presented the proposed additions and renovations of the three schools at a Board of Education meeting on Jan. So instead of going back out a third time with a plan, clearly the community did not support, of new facilities, we really wanted to take a look at what we could do, be fiscally responsible and add onto our buildings that currently exist.” We’ve had two failed referendums despite all of our efforts to get new schools built. “There has been a lot of work over the last 10 years trying to develop plans that the community would accept. They have contemplated taking ninth grade out of the high school and putting it back into the middle school and taking the sixth grade out of the middle school and putting it back into the elementary school. “We have had various ad hoc committees that have looked at many different plans. “This is a culmination going through the last 10 years,” Board President Chrissy Skurbe said.

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