For
history buffs among us...
FLETCHER-THOMPSON, INC./O&G-AP
OUTLINE OF SCENARIO STUDIES,
February
21, 2001/as of June 4, 2001 Community Meeting of the appointed Select
Team (NOTE: that body no
longer exists):
- alternative
in red
(below) preferred by Select Team--they
made recommendation
June 7 to Board of Selectmen, who moved it on the the Board of Finance,
who passed it along to you and me--Special Town Meeting (June 21)
perhaps
going to Referendum in seven to fourteen days after. And it did
go to "the machines."
- Referendum
or "machine vote" on 4 items splits into "yes" for some and "no" for
others - results of
June 28, 2001 (15 votes separated winners from losers on architectural
planning money) - see
these election results here.
NOTE:
speaking of scenario studies, how about what m ight happen in 2008, if
there is to be a Referendum on items at a Special Town Meeting, such as
the one upcoming in June 2008? Will we all vote the really,
really old-fashioned way, with paper ballots that must be hand-counted?
Scenario
1 - NEW THREE-FOUR-FIVE ON SCHOOL ROAD
PLUS
RENOVATIONS TO EXISTING BUILDINGS..."About Town" was not present at
June
4 meeting, but will be attending Building Committee June 5 (7:30pm,
Town
Hall) to check out the accuracy of the "facts"in
red below
- Renovate and expand
the existing high school without a field house.
- Renovate and expand the existing high
school with a field house adjacent to the high school.
- A new 3 - 5 grade
elementary school on the existing school property.
- Renovations and
additions to convert the existing middle school to a 6 - 8 grade middle
school.
- Renovations and additions to convert
the existing K - 3 grade elementary school to a Pre-kindergarten - 2
grade
elementary school.
Scenario
2 - eliminated, presumably,
because Heady site requires long term investigation and planning and is
still not a "sure thing" for intense school use.
- Renovate and expand the existing high
school without a field house.
- Renovate and expand the existing high
school with a field house adjacent to the high school.
- A new Pre-Kindergarten - 2 grade elementary
school on the Town-owned Heady Property located on the Newtown
Turnpike,
CT Route 53.
- Renovations and additions to convert
the existing 4 - 8 grade middle school to a 6 - 8 grade middle school.
- Renovations and additions to convert
the existing K-3 grade elementary school to a 3 -5 grade elementary
school.
Scenario
3 - NO NEW BUILDING, JUST RENOVATIONS...
- Renovate and expand the existing high
school without a field house.
- Renovate and expand the existing high
school with a field house adjacent to the high school.
- Renovations and additions to convert
the existing 4 - 8-grade middle school to a 5 - 8 grade middle school.
- Renovations and additions to convert
the existing K - 3 grade elementary school to a Pre-kindergarten - 4
grade
elementary school.
Scenario
4 - No new land available, according to authorities.
- Construct a new high school on a site
to be determined without a field house. Construct a new high
school
on a site to be determined with a field house adjacent to new high
school.
- Convert the existing high school to
a middle school for grades 6 - 8.
- Convert the existing middle school to
a grade 3 - 5 elementary school.
- Convert the existing elementary school
to a Pre-K to 2 elementary school.
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NOTE: the above document is
one of six (6) distributed at the February 21, 2001 School Building
Committee
meeting. Titles of the other five (5) documents--examples of
forms
the School Building Committee will be seeing as the project goes
forward--but
which must be established early) are:
Preliminary Conceptual Schedule
Preliminary
Draft Estimating Assumptions
Master
Control Budget Draft (example)
Various
Scenarios
Pre-Referendum Budget