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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone see the FAC member complain on AEM?

He stated he started this year and thinks FAC should advise staff.  How often do the advisory committees meet?  What is the role of FAC?  Are they experts in planning?  His posts are odd.

Lisa Stengel talked about working with school administrators.  I assume this means principals.  I’d prefer we get go=uidance from people who work in schools.[/quote]

FAC is a community group and recently people have been joining it specifically to stop projects they don’t want to move forward in their own neighborhoods. They should be ignored. By both APS and the County. Their agenda is to keep certain things out of certain neighborhoods. Salt dome? Not near my beautiful $2 million home. Bus and vehicle storage? Not on this piece of centrally located light industrial land the county acquired for this specific purpose. Light on the turf field near my home? I’m a big-time lawyer, put that health hazard near people who don’t matter as much and can’t afford dark skies. Another school? Oh, heck no! I bought this house so I could bird watch and wouldn’t have to hear the joyous screams of young children. A park with dedicated fields? No way! I like to let my dogs run around unleashed and poop and not clean-up and I don’t like going to the dog park, too many other dogs. NIMBY!!!!!!

Anyway, if the concern is they don’t know as much as FAC (lolz), they have the work product of a FAC group from a couple years ago that identified APS sites (and possibly county-owned sites) that had potential for schools, or more schools. There isn’t some magic land nobody knows about. [/quote]

You’re confusing FAC and JFAC.  JFAC is the joint APS/county commission, FAC only advises on APS capital projects.  It’s basically the community input piece of the CIP and AFSAP processes.  This process doesn’t involve any capital construction projects, so they don’t really have a role.  Also, their purpose is to give input to the school board, not the staff, so his upset at the staff is misplaced.

But you are correct that people increasingly join the committee in an attempt to control a pet project (either that they want built or that they specifically don’t want to see built), so their input in of decreasing usefulness to the school board. [/quote]

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