Answer: In 2012, when our community advisory committee was looking at options for a capital project, committee members were very interested in the idea of reorganizing our schools to put all elementary students at the Perth site and all secondary students at the Broadalbin site. However, the cost estimate provided by the district’s architectural firm at the time scared many committee members away from the idea. Since then, we have learned that the cost estimate we received in 2012 was inaccurate and not representative of the work that would actually need to take place. Unfortunately, because we were pressed for time in planning for the capital project that voters approved in February 2013, we chose to just take the most conservative approach possible to that project.
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Friday, September 4, 2015
Capital project question
Question: I am curious as to why there is an upcoming vote to approve a capital project to have the entire elementary school at the Perth site when just a few years ago I was on an exploratory committee dedicated to this topic and the results were that it was not cost effective, that it would require too much work to make the transition and that it was not in the best interest of our school community to make the switch? Was there information published that I missed, supporting the switch?
Answer: In 2012, when our community advisory committee was looking at options for a capital project, committee members were very interested in the idea of reorganizing our schools to put all elementary students at the Perth site and all secondary students at the Broadalbin site. However, the cost estimate provided by the district’s architectural firm at the time scared many committee members away from the idea. Since then, we have learned that the cost estimate we received in 2012 was inaccurate and not representative of the work that would actually need to take place. Unfortunately, because we were pressed for time in planning for the capital project that voters approved in February 2013, we chose to just take the most conservative approach possible to that project.
Answer: In 2012, when our community advisory committee was looking at options for a capital project, committee members were very interested in the idea of reorganizing our schools to put all elementary students at the Perth site and all secondary students at the Broadalbin site. However, the cost estimate provided by the district’s architectural firm at the time scared many committee members away from the idea. Since then, we have learned that the cost estimate we received in 2012 was inaccurate and not representative of the work that would actually need to take place. Unfortunately, because we were pressed for time in planning for the capital project that voters approved in February 2013, we chose to just take the most conservative approach possible to that project.
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