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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
District to hold meetings on facilities plans
Northwestern Local Schools will host three meetings next week to get input from residents on a potential building project.
Northwestern officials expect confirmation in July that the state’s Ohio Schools Facilities Commission will pay 45 percent of the cost to build new schools in the district. They will likely go to the ballot in November with a combined building-operating levy.
Northwestern is still in the process of completing a master facilities plan, as required for participation in OSFC. One of the things the district will seek input on next week is the configuration of the buildings, said Superintendent Tony Orr.
Anyone in attendance will see a few possibilities and give feedback through a technology educators refer to as “clickers,” which are basically something you hold and click to answer a question and then a computer monitors the answers. Orr told me Wednesday that the plan could be for two buildings or one building.
The district has invited parents of students in grades kindergarten through 4 to a meeting Monday, March 30, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Northwestern Middle School. The district is encouraging parents to bring others - grandparents, etc. - with them.
The parents of 5th through 12th graders are invited to a similar meeting Wednesday, April 1, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the middle school gym and are again encouraged to bring others with them.
Then Friday the district will host a dinner for senior citizens in the community and will talk to them about the plan as well.
Look for more information in the News-Sun this weekend.
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Board takes meeting to town hall
The Northeastern Board of Education will meet in the South Vienna town hall Thursday night.
Northeastern board members typically alternate their meetings between Northeastern and Kenton Ridge high schools but will go to the village this week, board President Leonard Kadel said at a community meeting Monday night.
The Monday night forum was about a potential partnership between Northeastern and the Ohio Schools Facilities Commission to build new schools. The state will pick up 41 percent of the tab if local taxpayers approve a bond issue to fund the remaining part; it’s expected to be on the November ballot.
Northeastern’s plan calls for two campuses of three school buildings each — one near Kenton Ridge High School and one where Northeastern High School is.
A resident asked at Monday’s meeting what would happen in South Vienna, where there is currently an elementary school and a middle school, although they are housed in the same building.
That’s when Kadel mentioned that the board would hold its March meeting in South Vienna.
The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. tonight. How do you feel about the possibility that South Vienna would no longer have an elementary school in the village?
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