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WORK SESSION
"Successful Management of Enrollment Growth"
is at the top of the Board's goal list, and that enrollment
growth has driven careful study, over five months,
of classroom and core space needs. The December 18
work session began with a brief restatement of the
headlines of enrollment growth-a 73% increase from
1988 to 2003, with another 13% growth expected within
the next ten years. Also noted at the outset of the
meeting was a new set of data summarizing program
growth since 1995, such as the six advanced placement
courses which have been added at BHHS.
The Board then turned again to consider the need
for classroom space driven by enrollment growth, in
a work session with the support of architectural and
construction management consultants, district administrators,
the advisory committee, and members of
In This Issue..
12/18
Work Session: Re
Classroom/Core
Facilities Project |
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Business Agenda |
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Attractions |
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Action Summary |
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the public. Draft Master Plans were reviewed, showing
cost estimates which ranged from $37MM to $53MM.
Two Versions of Drafts
At a long series of earlier meetings, the Board had
been reviewing drafts showing additions of classroom
and core space at each of the four district schools;
the Board looked again at those drafts (dated 11/18)
and at new drafts showing reductions in possible scope
at each of the four schools (dated 12/18). The Board
had asked for the drafts showing possible reductions
in scope out of sensitivity to the size of the possible
project, and the size of the possible cost estimates.
The changes from the 11/18 to 12/18 drafts were detailed
in the meeting and in public documents available upon
request, but the general theme of the reductions was
the paring down of proposed additions of core space
such as gymnasia or computer facilities. The December
drafts, after reductions in core space, now focus
for the most part on classroom space.
Cost Estimates
Estimates on these two versions of the plans, prepared
by the construction management consultants and architects,
ranged from $37MM for the reduced scope drawings of
12/18 to $47MM for the more inclusive November drawings.
In addition, capital costs estimates for infrastructure
upgrade such as roofing replacement ranged from $6,400,000
for the
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