Bennett Middle Project
The Board of Education pulled from its March 8 agenda an action item that would have removed the Bennett Middle School replacement project from its fiscal year 2012 Capital Improvement Plan (CIP). This amendment to the CIP would be needed, in the wake of the County Council’s decision not to consider the Bennett Middle project until fiscal year 2013, for the school system to notify the state that the school system was withdrawing its request for construction funding for fiscal year 2012.
Board members said during the March 8 meeting that they were unwilling to withdraw the project from fiscal year 2012 plans until every avenue for moving the project forward had been explored. The Board plans to work cooperatively with the County on options for funding and redesign over the next several weeks, in an attempt to resolve the Council’s funding concerns prior to the April 1 deadline by which the school system must notify the state if it plans to withdraw Bennett Middle from its fiscal year 2012 state funding request. Any delay on the Bennett Middle project schedule would further delay other school projects throughout the county and the completion of the James M. Bennett High School project.
“I want to be able to say that we looked at every option available to use before I give up,” Board President L. Michelle Wright said.
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5 comments:
NO! Dont they know the meaning of no? We are in a depression and there is NO money for this.
If those rooms are hot maybe we could put some tint on the windows.
YES! It's time for both sides to make noise. Didn't your mother teach you about "if at first you don't succede....?" Way to go, BOE. Hope all sides will work together to find a solution if one truly exists.
Michelle Wright is a loser that obviously loves to hear herself speak. She is a joke and they need to get rid of her. While they are at it they need to get rid of Fredericksen as well!!
NO. We do not need this school and cannot afford this school. Michelle, you should just keep running a fruit stand and stay out of the school system.
"They" need to do this, and "they" need to do that! Complaining from the sidelines doesn't count. Calling people loser doesn't count. That really is constructive. Find a way to make it work, people. Dr. Fredrickson and all the board members,please continue working with the council and county exec for a solution.
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