Schools

School Facilities Task Force To Go On Field Trip

A tour of the town's two middle schools is on the agenda for Thursday. A resident survey about a facilities plan is being discussed for September

The School Facilities Initiative Task Force is holding a special meeting Thursday, though it would be more accurate to describe it as a field trip.  

Originally a regular 7 p.m. meeting was planned, but now, beginning at 6 p.m., the task force will tour both Groton middle schools.  

The ‘meeting’ will begin at 6 p.m. at West Side Middle School and then following that tour of the building, the group will "recess and reconvene” at Cutler Middle School on Fishtown Road.  

At the April 23 Task Force meeting, a presentation called the Groton Community Survey was presented to seek to “identify reasons for support or opposition to plans for the school sand redistricting.”

The plan calls for a random survey of 400 registered voters to be done in September.  

According to the minutes of that meeting, the “consensus of the task force was for the survey to reflect moving forward rather than bringing the failed Phase II effort into it.”  

In May of 2011, voters overwhelmingly defeated the proposed $133 million school construction plan, with 1,437 in favor and 4,184 against. That project relied on state subsidies and an anticipated 66 percent reimbursement rate, which would have reduced the total cost of the project to $65.8 million. Nonetheless, voters shot it down.  

The Town Council approved $250,000 for the schools facilities initiative; the RTM recued it to $125,000.          


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