FM #1181 - Comprehensive School Facility Plng Mtg - 04/25/24

Franklin Matters Radio

This session shares the Comprehensive School Facility Planning Subcommittee meeting of Thursday, April 25, 2024. Subcommittee Chair Dave Callaghan, Al Charles, Erin Gallagher, Supt Lucas Giguere, Asst Supt Dr Tina Rogers, Asst Supt Paula Marano, Business Administrator Dr Bob Dutch participated.

Review of the feedback from the focus groups on visioning and portrait of the graduate were reviewed.

Facility proposal outlined with 2 options on how to handle the elementary schools. Option A to keep the facility as K-5, Option B to split the K-2 and 3-5. Option B would introduce a transition and put aside. It also did not align with feedback from the focus groups.

Much work remains to continue to flesh out the plans, adding the detailed long range plan as well as the implementation details. Assuming this does gain full committee approval it would begin implementation no earlier than Sep 2025.

Subcommittee recommended to bring Option A forward to the School Committee meeting Tuesday, April 30. The meeting recording runs about 70 minutes,

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Agenda for this session -> https://www.franklinmatters.org/2024/04/fps-comprehensive-facilities-planning.html

Letter to FPS community with summary ->

https://www.franklinmatters.org/2024/04/comprehensive-school-facilities.html

My notes captured via Twitter can be found in one PDF file ->

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WFZHjNN7Ggf7rMXmZN29PgtAQTHP-nO_/view?usp=drive_link

PDF file with the 3 maps, current state, Option A and Option B https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DO3B2-nn1S1wNucsrODU-nrIAWL7Meib/view?usp=drive_link

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