Friday, November 25, 2005

DO Group meeting Dec 7th

The next meeting of the DO group will be December 4th, 7:00pm at Suzanna's Restaurant. The public is welcome.

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At 3:06 PM, Blogger JPN said...

Below is an article from the Johnson County County Sun discussing numerous new school constuction programs in three districts in eastern Kansas in the western suburbs of Kansas City. Two of the districts are growing, one is srinking and all have building constructions under way.
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New school construction in Kansas


Schools are popping up in Johnson County, Kansas like rodents in Whack-a-Mole. With the growth in the Blue Valley, DeSoto, Olathe and Shawnee Mission districts, eight new buildings are in the works and more are expected in the future.

Blue Valley patrons approved a $280 million bond issue in January and construction of the first school in that plan is under way. The 19th elementary school will be the 31st school in the district.

The school, at 158th Terrace and Roe Avenue, will open to students in August 2006 with a capacity of 650. Those students will feed into Prairie Star Middle School and Blue Valley High School.

Board members will set boundary lines for the new school in February and select a name in March or April. Cottonwood Point Elementary School principal Jeff McClelland will take over as principal of the new school. The board started planning for this school in October 2004. Deputy Superintendent Al Hanna labeled the process expedient because the new school is much like some of the district's existing elementary schools

An elementary school typically takes two to three years to develop from start to finish. This school used $12.2 million of the 2005 bond money, with $10.5 million in construction costs. The school is the first of several the district plans to build with the bond money.

Current growth makes new buildings essential in the district. Blue Valley's enrollment jumped from 19,104 in 2004-05 to 19,591 this school year.

"We have purchased two additional sites in the school district for additional schools," Hanna said.

Land east of 163rd Street and Quivira Road will likely house the next elementary school. "We are thinking somewhere around 2009-10 is when we are going to need to open another elementary," Hanna said.

A new middle school and high school are the next step. The district purchased 113 acres at 175th Street and Quivira Road that can be used for those projects.

DeSoto
Construction of DeSoto's first facility in Lenexa is under way. The school at 83rd Street and Mize Road is the district's third middle school. It is one of the last projects funded by a $72 million bond issue passed in 2000.

"It is being constructed because of the enormous growth that our district is experiencing," director of community relations Alvie Cater said.

The district's population increased 9 percent last year. It has increased 145 percent over the last 11 years, making it the fastest growing in the state.

"We are in one of those situations where we are trying to stay ahead of that growth as fast as we can," Cater said. The city of DeSoto's population is less than 6,000, but the district extends into Shawnee, Lenexa and Olathe.

"People don't realize that the DeSoto School District covers 100 miles in Johnson County," Cater said.

Sixty percent of Shawnee and 40 percent of Lenexa is within DeSoto's boundaries. Student population is soaring as residential development moves west. The district had 4,712 students last school year and now boasts 5,138 students.

DeSoto's newest middle school will open in fall 2007. The facility cost $19.8 million. Construction for the district's sixth elementary school will begin in the next two months. The school will cost between $12 million and $14 million and open simultaneously with the middle school. The elementary school will have a capacity of 550 to 600. The middle school will have a capacity of 750.

The small school capacities are intentional, Cater said. "Quite a few parents have chosen to relocate into our district because of the size," he said.

While DeSoto's elementary and middle schools are comparable to surrounding districts their high schools stand out with capacities of 750. Blue Valley's high schools have a 1,600-student capacity, Olathe's high school capacities are 1,500, and Shawnee Mission high schools hold more than 2,100 students. Recent growth caused DeSoto school board members to rethink their small school philosophy. The district distributed patron surveys.

"The response that we have gotten from our patron surveys is 'yes we like small high schools,'" Cater said. Big or small the district anticipates more buildings.

"The district is planning for the future," Cater said. "The board of education is now talking about a possible bond issue for 2006."

Olathe
Olathe's 32nd elementary school is the district's ninth new school in five years. Olathe's exponential growth is not as high as DeSoto's, but with more then 1,100 new students this year, Olathe is growing. The district had 23,556 students last school year and has 24,735 enrolled this school year.

In 2003, Olathe patrons approved a $73.5 million bond issue for the purchase of four elementary school sites, two junior high sites and one high school site. Construction of three elementary schools was also included in the plan.

School number 32 is the first of those three. Board members expect to decide on the school's location before the end of the fall semester. The district already purchased land at 95th Street and Clare Road, 115th Street and Woodland Road and 147th Street and Lakeshore Drive. The bond issue allows the board to purchase one more site and the district could chose to build the elementary school on newly purchased property. Board members have voiced concern with overcrowding at Sunnyside Elementary, 16025 S. Lindenwood.

"They would like to purchase land in that south part of the district," director of community relations and information Loralee Baker-Rapue said.

The district does not have estimates for the cost of the newest elementary school, but Ravenwood Elementary, which opened this fall, cost $8 million.

Baker-Rapue expects a higher price tag for the new school because of rising construction costs. Once the district determines the site of the new school, construction details and opening dates will be determined.

The district has no time line for the next two schools to be built.

Shawnee Mission's student population has declined, but its construction projects have not. Two new elementary schools are under construction, and work on three more begins next spring. These new facilities are a part of a $184 million bond issue approved in 2004. The new elementary schools will replace outdated facilities.

"The decisions were made to construct new schools that would extend the life of the building longer than if they would try to do another renovation," director of public information and communication Leigh Anne Neal said. The district estimates $9 million for each new school. Four of the five new schools will each merge two existing schools.

The school being built adjacent to Merriam Elementary, 6100 Mastin, will serve students from Merriam and South Park Elementary. The merge is expected to save the district $374,000 in annual operating costs. The new school built adjacent to Oak Park Elementary, 10000 Nieman, combines Oak Park and Katherine Carpenter elementary students. It is expected to save the district $301,000 in operating expenses.

Construction is under way on both of these projects and they should be complete by the spring of 2008. The district did not wait for new buildings to consolidate other elementary schools.

Nieman and West Antioch combined and students will attend a new facility built adjacent to Nieman, 10917 W. 67th. Roesland Elementary joined Roeland Park Elementary and those students will attend a new building at Roesland's site, 4900 Parish. Construction for these schools begins this spring with completion anticipated during the 2008-09 school year. Construction on a new elementary school adjacent to Comanche Elementary also begins in the spring and should be complete in 2008.

"We are hoping these schools will attract new students," said Bill Frick, associate superintendent of elementary schools. "Kind of renovate the existing community."

Shawnee Mission's enrollment dropped from 28,952 last school year to 28,530 this year. The district also used money from the bond issue to update existing schools. By the end of this school year all of the district's schools will have wireless Internet labs.

"We needed to upgrade and keep everything moving," Frick said.

 
At 3:16 PM, Blogger JPN said...

The aritcle below by Walter Yost of the Sacremento Bee does a decent job of shreading some light on the debate between California school districts concerning changing boundaries.
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School boundary plan stirs anxiety


Attendance boundary changes almost always can be counted on to spark debate and stir emotions, as school boards attempt to balance enrollments and plan for the future. The El Dorado Union High School District is no exception.

Parents, as well as future parents, have circulated petitions, created Web sites and shown up for a slew of informational meetings regarding plans to shift high school boundaries for the 2006-2007 school year.

Amid a barrage of public feedback, much of it critical, district Superintendent Sherry Smith said she is impressed by "how much people care about their schools."

"Loyalties to the high schools are very strong," she said.

A district boundary committee will meet from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Ponderosa High School cafeteria, 3661 Ponderosa Road, Shingle Springs, to consider four proposals and make a recommendation to the district board of trustees. The board will hold a public hearing on the recommendation Dec. 13 and approve a plan at their Jan. 10 meeting.

Officials say growing enrollment projections of area middle school districts, which feed into the high school district, along with changing enrollment within the district and the development of new housing, prompted formation of the boundary committee earlier this year.

The district originally planned to build a fifth comprehensive high school near the El Dorado Hills/Cameron Park border. But with rising construction costs in recent years, Smith said building a new school is not feasible and will be postponed.

A new comprehensive high school, she said, would cost about $80 million.

As a result, the district is committed to redrawing attendance boundaries for its existing high schools - Oak Ridge, Ponderosa, Union Mine and El Dorado - to balance student enrollment.

The proposed changes, however, have drawn organized opposition, most strongly in Cameron Park, Shingle Springs and Rescue. Many parents there say boundary changes are being made to accommodate new development on the western border of the county, at the expense of older, established communities.

A number of parents in El Dorado Hills also oppose one of the proposed boundary changes, which would send many of their children to Ponderosa High School rather than Oak Ridge High.

Critics argue that the boundary change process is moving too fast and the district hasn't adequately analyzed alternative solutions such as building a smaller school or installing temporary classrooms at Oak Ridge and Ponderosa until a new high school can be built.

"Our main concern is that the district value its existing students over new students," said Suzanna George, a parent who lives in Rescue.

"I think all four plans are wrong," said Erin Johnson, another Rescue resident who has one child in elementary school and another in middle school.

Johnson said the boundary proposals would result in her sixth-grade son going to El Dorado High School in Placerville, while many of his friends would attend Ponderosa in Shingle Springs.

Those bonds between children who attend elementary and middle school together shouldn't be broken, Johnson and George said.

"Children need that support more than ever," George said.

She and other parents also say school officials need to look at solutions other than building a comprehensive high school.

A smaller magnet school, she said, could be built for less money and without having to divide up students and families.

George also said the district may have overestimated the amount of growth that will occur in El Dorado Hills and which has spurred the effort to change boundaries.

In response to critics, Smith said she understands the anxiety caused by boundary changes, but the district needed to put forth some proposals as "starting points."

"If we left everyone where they are, we wouldn't solve the problem," she said.

The school district, Smith said, can't afford to wait any longer to adjust attendance boundaries without severely affecting campus populations.

Regarding the idea of building a smaller magnet-type school, Smith said the district took a survey in 2002 and found that "overwhelmingly, parents of the feeder districts favored a comprehensive high school."

Ultimately, both Smith and George say the final boundary plan will likely be some sort of compromise.

"The compromise that will come forward will affect the minimum number of children possible," George predicted.

"Out of this process, I think we'll have hybrid plans," Smith said.

The final informational meeting will be from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Monday at Miller's Hill school, 7900 South Shingle Road, Shingle Springs.

 
At 3:22 PM, Blogger JPN said...

From the Valdez Star, here is some discussion on a problem with construction costs estimates being too low. I'd be guessing there's more than a little finger pointing going on up there in Alaska.

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The new middle school, which Valdez voters approved to be built in 2002 at a cost of $17 million dollars, will be coming before the voters again, only the price tag will be ten million dollars higher this time around. It seems the original construction costs presented to the voters was incorrect to begin with, according to Hozey. When you add the cost of inflation and materials and market conditions that are favoring the construction companies, the cost for the project has skyrocketed above the amount voters originally approved could be spent on the new school. Additionally, school enrollment numbers have been in decline since 2002, the city may not be able to sell bonds for the project and now, after a peer review of the construction plans, it has come to light that the current plans do not meet the educational specifications set fourth by the Department of Education. This means that the current plans must be changed to meet the DOE standards before the state will pay for 60% of the school. To further complicate matters, the state has only set aside nine million dollars to help build the school because the original cost estimate to construct the school was $17 million.

All of these problems have led the Valdez City School Board, the Valdez City Council and city administration to conclude that all of these matters must be cleared up and resubmitted to the voters in a new vote. However, a thorough assessment of the peer review by city and school officials will take time to sort out before the matter can be brought before the electorate, which is why the date for the special election has been pushed back from the original estimated time frame, which was January of 2006.

 
At 3:30 PM, Blogger JPN said...

Here's an article from the Vacaville, CA Reporter discussing the new school construction and some of the rational behind charging fees to developers.
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School board increases fees to developers
By Julie Kay/Staff Writer

What does it cost for developers to build new homes in Vacaville? First, there are obvious costs like land and materials. Then, there are impact fees - the cost of new infrastructure the developments necessitate - including new schools.
At Thursday's school board meeting, trustees decided it's time to put a new price tag on those costs.

The last time Vacaville trustees did so was five years ago. Then, they approved a motion saying that for each new single-family home, the correlating school construction would cost $10,800. For each apartment, it would cost $3,936.

Now, with inflation and higher construction costs, the price of building school facilities has risen. Using data from the state government, the district places the new costs at $12,103 per single-family home, and $4,411 per multi-family unit.

Just because the district creates such a price tag does not, however, mean that developers must pay its cost. In following with a 1998 law, developers are only obligated to pay a minimum amount, one that falls below real costs of school construction, said Leigh Coop, district facilities manager. Paying the full amount is a voluntary measure.

"We can't require it, the city can't require it, but we have encouraged developers to come to us" with a proposal for paying the full amount, said Coop.

Usually, larger developers do pay the full amount in order to promote goodwill and a positive image, said Coop.

"For (developers) to be able to tell people hey, kids will be going to a new school in your area," is an advantage, she said.

The large developers currently working in Vacaville all have agreements to pay school construction costs above the minimum level, said Coop.

The district's trustees unanimously approved the fee increase Thursday night. Coop characterized the increase as very reasonable, and below impact fees in nearby areas.

"We're right in the ballpark," she said.

 
At 3:36 PM, Blogger JPN said...

In Everett, WA, a record school bond is being floated. The following story comes from the Everett Herald. My guess is that the board votes in all these district isn't 7-0.
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$198 million school bond in the works
Everett to seek unprecedented amount for school buildings

By Melissa Slager
Herald Writer

The Everett School District next year will seek a record $198.9 million bond issue to build a new school, modernize others, upgrade technology and make other improvements.

With the record bond comes an added bonus: Administrators estimate the tax rate would be slightly less than what taxpayers are currently paying. The cost of the new bond is estimated at $4.99 per $1,000 of property valuation, or $998 a year on a home worth $200,000. The current rate is $5.01. The slight drop in the tax rate would be due in part to rising property values.

School board members decided to go with one bond proposal instead of splitting the costs with a capital levy, as earlier discussed, because they feared voters would be confused.

"It'd probably be too great a risk," board member Sue Cooper said.

The Feb. 7 ballot measure also will include a renewal of the district's four-year maintenance and operations levy.

Bonds are for construction needs and authorize a district to collect a set amount of money all at once, then pay it off over a period of years with local tax dollars. A levy is a kind of pay-as-you-go plan for other needs and improvements, with a set chunk of money collected each year over a shorter time frame, usually one to four years.

Everett superintendent Carol Whitehead recommended the construction package earlier this month. Board members signaled their approval in a special meeting this week, and will make it official at their Nov. 22 meeting.

The proposal comes as the district expects its six south-end elementary schools to surpass capacity by 2009, and as several schools, mostly in the north end, reach 40 years of service.

The bond would be the largest ever sought by a Snohomish County school district. It follows a $171 million bond proposal in Marysville this year that was twice rejected by voters.

Such large bonds are due largely to higher construction costs.

Statewide, the average construction bid to build a new elementary school has more than doubled in the last 15 years, according to figures from the state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

The average base bid went from $88.42 per square foot for 22 projects in 1990 to $187.20 per square foot for eight projects in 2004. High school construction bids also went up by 43 percent, from $112.41 per square foot for six projects in 1992 to $161.22 per square foot for four projects in 2003.

The main culprits are rising oil and steel prices, which are affected by world events, natural disasters and the building boom in China, said Ralph Saxton, a regional president of the Council of Educational Facility Planners International.

Schools also are partly responsible for the higher costs.

The average size of new elementary schools, for example, has gone up more than 13,500 square feet over the last 15 years, according to state figures.

What goes inside those buildings also is evolving with school programs, said Saxton, who owns a Seattle company that sells interior furnishings for schools. Overhead projectors are fast becoming antiques, he said.

In Everett, the proposed bond is the largest to face voters since they passed a $96.5 million package in 1990 for 16 major construction projects, including three new schools in the south end.

It breaks from an earlier recommendation in which administrators divided the work between a $172 million bond and a four-year capital levy totaling $20 million. The split would save taxpayers money in the long run, though individual rates would be higher some years.

A consultant hired by a volunteer group of bond boosters said the chances of voters passing both a bond and capital levy, along with the maintenance and operations levy, were slim in his surveys. Less than half of the 404 people interviewed initially said they would vote "yes" on all three.

School tax requests require a 60 percent supermajority to pass.

"I think passing of all three, while possible, is somewhat problematic," said Mark Nelson of the Salem, Ore.-based Public Affairs Council.

The list of work also changed slightly.

Whitehead recommended adding Monroe Elementary School on 27th Street SE to the list of buildings getting an overhaul after hearing from parents and other residents. To make up for the added work, the district will seek money to buy land for two future schools instead of three.

 
At 6:50 AM, Blogger JPN said...

From Charlotte.com Charlotte Observer

Posted on Sun, Nov. 27, 2005

Crowded schools
Nationwide, school leaders are tackling enrollment growth

The frustrations many voters expressed about Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools on Election Day in defeating a $427 million bond package have been building for a while. But most of those frustrations are not unique to Charlotte-Mecklenburg. Crowded schools, aging facilities in disrepair and strained budgets are an increasing and familiar refrain for public schools nationwide. Resolving these conflicts is challenging communities and school administrators everywhere.

In CMS, public distrust of the school board and school officials, management problems and a tendency toward secrecy exacerbate the situation. But the fundamental problems remain the same all over. U.S. Census data track a big upsurge in school-age children starting in the early 1980s. That's exactly when CMS officials began projecting booming student populations here.

By 2004, U.S. public enrollment in kindergarten through grade 12 was nearing a record 50 million. As enrollment grew, public school facilities were aging tremendously. Notes the National Center for Education Statistics, 28 percent of all public schools last year were built before 1950 and 45 percent were built between 1950 and 1969.

In addition, school systems nationwide are wrestling with providing equitable facilities in inner-city communities as enrollment soared.

Those realities have forced school systems to become inventive. As CMS and Mecklenburg County officials examine how to proceed following the November bond defeat, they might benefit from the experiences of other school systems facing similar dilemmas.

Fairfax: Credibility helps a lot

Fairfax (Va.) County public school system is a good example.With 165,000 students, Fairfax County Schools are straining at the seams. The nation's 12th largest system has more than 12,000 students learning in trailers. Every other year, officials seek voter approval of bonds to build new schools and renovate existing ones.

Fairfax assistant superintendent Dean Tistadt, who heads its Department of Facilities and Transportation Services, can sympathize with CMS officials. Finding sufficient funds to manage growth and maintenance is a challenge there, too. One asset Fairfax has going for it that CMS could use is credibility.

"We have tremendous credibility with the public," he told the Observer editorial board. "We have full disclosure. We bring projects in on budget and on time. We communicate with the public in a way that they find credible... We get them to understand what we're facing and persuade them of the legitimacy of the need."

That has led to high support for bond issues. In Fairfax County's vote Nov. 8 on $246 million in bonds -- including $177 million for renovations and $32 million for new schools and modular classrooms -- 76 percent of voters said "yes."

But that money is not enough to meet needs, Mr. Tistadt notes. High housing prices, improvements in nearby school districts and other factors have leveled off enrollment growth, but the system has not caught up. So officials are now proposing redistricting and zoning changes in areas where crowding is worst. With construction costs skyrocketing because of labor shortages and pricier materials, they're also considering reducing the scope of projects to bring costs down.

Public-private partnerships are also part of Fairfax's strategy -- a good option for CMS, Mr. Tistadt says. He cited one public-private partnership that included a high school, a golf course and public housing. "The county sweetened the pot with the higher density [for the housing]," he said. "You don't always have that kind of leverage. But it worked. The building of the school got accelerated, and it saved us money."

Is there a better way?

In 2003's "A Toolkit for Tomorrow's Schools," Maryland-based planner Steve Donnelly summed up the problem of crowded schools this way: "Today, parents across the U.S. want to know why housing permits are still being issued while their brand new school is already 130 percent overcrowded. They want to know why students are educated in trailers instead of bricks and mortar classrooms. They want to know who is responsible for planning this mess."

That complaint has a familiar ring in Charlotte-Mecklenburg. Mr. Donnelly and other experts target lack of coordinated planning among local government agencies as the big obstacle in tackling growth.

Nationwide, better planning and attention to the impact of housing developments on school capacity are needed. Wake County started a collaboration with N.C. State University to develop a data-driven process to to better plan schools. These and other processes that involve the public promote more community investment in building schools.

Collaboration on school building decisions is also leading to more mixed-uses of schools. Co-locating schools with public libraries, community colleges, even parks is making schools more cost-efficient.

On today's Viewpoint page, we look at four school systems tackling growth: Clark County, Nev.; Fairfax County, Va.; Gwinnett County, Ga. and Wake County. The strategies of these schools as well as other ideas we've listed are useful for a community-wide discussion of how to meet the needs of growth here. As Charlotte-Mecklenburg discusses what comes next, a broader understanding of options used elsewhere should lead to better decisions.

 
At 6:52 AM, Blogger JPN said...

From the St. Petersburg Times:
November 28, 2005

School's design has safety in mind
The new Dunedin Elementary will be built to withstand 130 mph winds and will have better vehicle access and 32 security cameras.
By TERRI BRYCE REEVES
Published November 27, 2005

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DUNEDIN - While Dunedin's old middle school at 900 Union St. has fallen to the wrecking ball, a new elementary school will rise in its place.

The new and improved Dunedin Elementary will be larger, more secure and beefed up to meet hurricane standards.

And it will come with good news for drivers: Separate and larger-scale bus and parent-driver loops should help alleviate traffic nightmares.

"We will be using the latest technologies and designs and it will meet the Miami-Dade hurricane codes. In that way it will be radically different than the existing Dunedin Elementary," said Tony Rivas, director of facilities for Pinellas County schools.

Fleischman-Garcia Architects designed the new facility to fit in with the community aesthetically, said Jeff Pelszynski, a senior associate with the firm and project manager for the school.

"It will be broken up into smaller units so it won't look like a huge box and will be less intimidating to the youngsters," he said. The proposed design incorporates five buildings, most of which are two stories high, connected by covered walkways.

With the city's Scottish heritage in mind, the architect suggested a stucco exterior with painted metal roofs and blue ceramic tile accents that "evoke a Scottish-plaid feel," he said.

Those details have not yet been finalized.

What is known is that the school building will have more than 97,000 square feet to accommodate 738 students. It will contain six kindergarten classrooms, 18 primary classrooms for grades 1-3 and 12 intermediate classrooms for grades 4-5. Eight of the classrooms, an additional 13,000 square feet, were added to the original plan to meet new state class size reduction requirements.

There will be three separate playgrounds for kindergarten, primary and intermediate grades with age-specific equipment.

In today's world, safety is front and center.

"The overall design is in keeping with the latest advances in security and surveillance," said Pelszynski.

The entire area will be fenced, with gates open at arrival and dismissal times.

"No one will be able to gain access to the campus without going through the administration office," Pelszynski said. Thirty-two cameras for full-time surveillance are incorporated into the plan.

The media center and multipurpose rooms on the west side of the 12-acre site may be accessed separately after hours for community programs, school functions and other meetings.

Pelszynski said a lot of effort went into making sure local traffic would be minimally affected by school traffic.

School buses will enter and exit onto Union Street. The bus loop will accommodate up to 18 buses at one time, making backups onto the roadway more unlikely.

Parents, on the other hand, will enter on Patricia Avenue and share a common driveway, and bus loop if needed, with the recently built Dunedin Highland Middle School. Since starting and closing times are different for the two schools, officials predict the plan will work well.

The school also will be able to function as an emergency shelter for the community as it is designed to withstand winds up to 130 mph.

It all comes with a price tag of $19-million, up $5-million since this summer.

Jim Miller, director of real property management for Pinellas County schools, attributed the price increase to the additional classrooms required and a rise of construction costs.

"Because of the hurricanes and storms we've had, the cost of steel, concrete and building materials has increased. They've had major issues in trying to get products," he said.

The school will replace the current 73,000-square-foot Dunedin Elementary School at 531 Beltrees St., which is considered functionally obsolete. The 12 buildings on that site were constructed in the 1920s, 1950s and 1980s. The school currently serves 605 students.

At first, school officials considered rebuilding on the current site, but officials didn't want the 1980s structures torn down because they were too new. Attempts to build on the limited acreage without modifying those structures and interrupting the education of the students would have been problematic.

So officials elected to build the new elementary school about a mile away on existing school property next to the new middle school.

Officials aren't certain what they will do with the current elementary school, said Rivas.

The new school is expected to be ready for occupancy for the beginning of the 2007 school year.

Fleischman-Garcia based the plan for the school on another school they designed, Shore Acres Elementary in St. Petersburg. That school won a design award from the Florida Educational Facilities Planners Association at its 2005 winter conference.

Pelszynski said the design of the school should be in keeping with the small-town character of Dunedin.

"We're making every attempt to save seven extra large oaks and adding other trees to the perimeter," he said.

"We're hoping Dunedin Elementary will be well received by the community."

 

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