Staff is recommending delaying the opening of H6 in order to fund the renovations for Wake Forest-Rolesville High School.
Supt. Del Burns said that the Monday infusion of $100 million from the county still leaves the school district short of all that is needed. He said that some projects will be delayed.
Burns said that the Wake Forest-Rolesville High renovations should remain the top priority and be kept on schedule. But that means the other big ticket item, H6, would be put on hold.
Burns said the completion of H6's campus would be delayed a year or two past 2011. This will lead to changes in the reassignment plan.
The reassignment plan adopted two weeks ago had students going to H6 in 2010-11 when it opened a year early on the campus of Heritage High. Now those students won't go until the permanent building is ready in 2012 or 2013.
Burns said they may also have to delay by a year or two the openings of both the new Walnut Creek Elementary in Southeast Raleigh and the new Rolesville Middle.
Burns also said they'd have to put on hold renovations for Wilburn Elementary School and land purchases for future schools.
School board members appeared to agree, without taking any vote, about going ahead with Wake Forest-Rolesville's project at the expense of H6. But they were concerned about delaying Wilburn's renovations so Beverley Clark asked staff to come up with cost-cutting measures.
For instance, Clark said new schools might not need to open with all the new amenities, such as the latest playground equipment.
Comments
If the rennovations of WFRHS
Wed, 02/18/2009 - 09:16 — mommy59If the rennovations of WFRHS get done that in itself wil be a miracle.The schools will still be overcrowded but at least there wil be WFRHS,Hertiage,Wakefield and Knightdale for the students to attend.
By the time the new high school getsb uilt the schools wil be less croweded because people will just start moving away from Wake County.
For The Children
Wed, 02/18/2009 - 09:25 — For_The_ChildrenI completely agree. Had I known the school situation was in such disarray here, I would have never moved to Wake County. These poor kids are shuffled around like garbage.
For The Children
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 19:06 — For_The_ChildrenMr. Hui- When will the school board announce the assignments for those currentently assigned to H6 - does this mean they will stay at the 09-10 school assignment? So if your children are assigned to Wakefield in 09-10 - will they stay at Wakefield until 2012-2013, or will they make more reassignments.
H6/Forest Ridge wasn't going
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 21:09 — KeungHui (author)H6/Forest Ridge wasn't going to open on Heritage High's campus until 2010 so there's no impact for the upcoming school year. In terms of an official announcement for future years, it will wait until the school board officially votes on delaying the project.
For The Children
Wed, 02/18/2009 - 07:28 — For_The_ChildrenAnd do you know when that will be?
It would have to be soon
Wed, 02/18/2009 - 08:02 — KeungHui (author)It would have to be soon because they're supposed to start construction of Forest Ridge this summer, meaning bids would go before then.
What's that I hear?
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 18:07 — SideburnsUh, were we not just in a "capacity crisis"? Or was that crying wolf? Let's not forget the moral to the story:
I'm looking forward to the perish of this Board.
capacity crisis, bah! called lies, spin, pushing the agenda
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 18:16 — AngelaWWAKE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
MEETING MINTUES
JANUARY 22, 2009
Ms. Head shared that the Facilities and Operations Committee met on January 13, with a very full agenda. The Committee reviewed the Facilities Utilization Report book. Chuck Dulaney did an overview of the summary report, discussed the optimum number of modular units, reviewed the general summary data that indicates that overcrowding in Wake County has actually decreased thanks in part to some slowing of growth and also to the fact that the system has been able to continue building schools with funds from Plan 2006. Crowding has decreased in elementary schools from 96% to 92.5%, in middle schools from 97% to 95.1%,and in high schools from 97.6% to 95.3%. District-wide the crowding has decreased from 96% to 94%. This is taking into account the year-round calendars that are in place. Mr. Dulaney also discussed the impact of allocation of space for special needs programs,utilization assignments, and other information found in this book
It will be interesting to
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 17:49 — raleighreaderIt will be interesting to see how the H6 delay affects the North eastern high school reassignments.
With the exception of
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 17:56 — KeungHui (author)With the exception of delaying when the kids go to H6, or now officially Forest Ridge High, Burns doesn't think they'll need to change any other school.
Yep. The funding source is a
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 17:46 — KeungHui (author)Yep. The funding source is a bit murky now because of the budget problems. Originally, most of the funding would have come from delaying two elementary schools. Now the pots are mixed around as they try to scrape up enough funding.
question, Mr. Hui
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 16:47 — AngelaW"Staff is recommending delaying the opening of H6 in order to fund the renovations for Wake Forest-Rolesville High School"
ok and these are the " re-allocated" Bond funds, correct?
You can thank County
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 19:56 — CaryCurmudgeonYou can thank County Commissioners Stan Norwalk, Betty Lou Ward, Lindy Brown and Harold Webb. The previous commissioners had wcpss on a tight leash, requiring them to provide detailed spending reports. These four commissioners did away with that as soon as they had a party majority.
In a time when every county resource is precious, these four commissioners voted to make the school board LESS accountable to us.
No
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 21:45 — supportwcpssThey voted not to micro-manage people. We know how you have it in for Stan - seen it over on CP.
"we"?
Wed, 02/18/2009 - 06:04 — Dadof3Is that the royal "we?" All one of you?
So when is it time to "hold accountable" and not "micro-manage" -- whether there's a "D" or an "R" after their name? Nice.
The wolves are in the hen house, please don't micro-manage them.
absolutely true! in the
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 20:11 — AngelaWabsolutely true! in the blink of a (blind) eye, they undid what took six years of trying to make WCPSS MORE accountable, and then let 'em loose!
Maybe we could get Harold Webb
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 20:16 — g88ky07and Granny Lou Ward's AARP cards revoked!