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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is all for show.   Plus they have to find ways to spend the increased school budget on more consultants.  [/quote]

They’ve already spent all the money they can on a boundary policy consultant. If they plan to spend more money on consultants it will have to be for someone to tell them which boundaries to change.

Still think it would be a better use of time and money to just come up with an updated renovation queue. [/quote]
Renovations are getting more and more expensive.  Renovation costs have more than doubled over the past 10 years.  And the current queue doesn’t account for declining commercial real estate values and property taxes due to telework, so there’s no way the county will be able to pursue many of the proposed projects in the proposed timeframes.

The school board has got to figure how to combine the minimum number of school renovations with the minimum number of redistrictings to achieve its goals, and this will require long-term planning with a holistic view of all the tools the county has at its disposal.  The county does not and will not have the funds to continue to renovate schools in a manner that leaves underutilized capacity.[/quote]

Yes, they should not be doing massive expansions of schools where there is no expectation of significant growth, but rather making sure there are an adequate number of permanent seats at schools that are already overcrowded or expected to see substantial growth.

That’s not what they’ve been doing for quite some time. [/quote]

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