HomeMy WebLinkAbout1998-10-01 ad Hoc School Building Committee MinutesREADING SCHOOL BUILDING COMMITTEE
MINUTES .
OCTOBER 1 1998
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A MEETING OF THE SCHOOL BUILDING COMMITTEE BIAS `HELD ON'
OCTOBER 1 1998 AT THE SUPERINTENDENTS CONFERENCE ROOM.
PRESENT WERE JEFF STRUBLE, JOE LUPI, RICH RADVILLE,
MARGARET COWELL AND RUSS GRAHAM JOE FINNEGAN JOINED THE MEETING LATE.
THE MEETING WAS CALLED TO ORDER AT 8:10PM. SID BOWEN OF EARL FLANSBURGH
ASSOCIATES WAS PRESENT.
SID REPORTED TO THE COMMITTEE THAT IN A CONVtRSATION WITH A
REPRESENATIVE OF THE SBAB, IT WAS MENTIONED THAT THE LAND SITE OF THE KILLAM
SCHOOL MIGHT NOT LEND ITSELF TO ANY ADDITIONAL BUILDING.
A DISCUSSION OF THE TRAFFIC SITUATION AT THE VARIOUS SCHOOLS
ENSUED WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON WHAT THE VARIOUS OPTIONS~UNDER
DISCUSSION, MIGHT DO TO THE TRAFFIC AT THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. THE
SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN STUDENTS~UNDER OPTION A WOULD HAVE A VERY REAL AND
DRASTIC EFFECT ON THE SCHOOLS INVOLVED. SID BOWEN EMPHASIZED
THAT TRAFFIC PROBLEMS AT SCHOOLS NEVER GO AWAY AND ARE PRESENT AT LEAST
TWICE A DAY. DESIGN OF SCHOOLS CAN NOT ADRESS THESE TRAFFIC PROBLEMS, BUT
MUCH CAN BE DONE TO MITIGATE THE PROBLEMS.
THE QUESTION OF WHERE THE MOST GROWTH OF SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN
WAS IN THE TOWN WAS ASKED. THE ANSWER IS THAT IS MOSTLY IN THE NORTHERN
AREA OF READING. THE DIVIDENCE ROAD SITE PROPOSED UNDER OPTION B
WOULD SERVE THAT AREA OF TOWN.
BETH KLEPEIS, DIRECTOR OF FINANCE HAS BEEN WORKING WITH DR
HARUTUNIAN ON THE FINANCIALS BUT WAS UNABLE TO BE WITH THE COMMITTEE THIS
EVENING DUE TO A PRIOR COMMITMENT.
THE QUESTION AROSE AS TO WHAT MUST BE DONE TO THE REMAINING
SCHOOLS IN TOWN AND THE COMMITTEE BELIEVED THAT ANSWER MUST BE READY FOR
TOWN MEETING.
THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE AT ITS LAST MEETING HAD SOME DISCUSSION
ON THE HIGH SCHOOL SUGGESTING THAT IT NEEDED TO BE GIVEN SOME SCOPE OF
PRIORITY. THE SCHOOL BUILDING COMMITTEE REITERATED THAT IT HAD MADE ITS
RECCOMONDATION ON THE HIGH SCHOOL AND THAT ITS PRIMARY FOCUS WAS NOW ON
SOLVING THE ENROLLMENT ISSUE AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL.
ON MOTION OF MARGARET COWELL, SECONDED BY RICH RADVILLE, THE
COMMITTEE VOTED TO ADJOURN AT 9:44PM.
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