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January 11, 2024 Public Comment Submissions

Jan 9, 2024 | public comments

REQUEST TO ADDRESS BOARD
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Non-Agenda Item
Name
Kimberly Aikins
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Current Staff
Date
01/09/2024
Subject
Master Facility Plan
Comments
The proposed consolidation of grades 1-12 into the currently-existing elementary building on the Tucson campus is concerning. Renovations in the current high school building for a new science lab were just completed within the last year, costing the agency nearly $200,000 and nearly 3 years to complete; having to recreate yet another science lab for our high school students seems like a waste of money. In addition, moving Kindergarten to the Birth to 5 center only removes about 10 students out of a current total enrollment of 125 students (which continues to grow). This means that we would be attempting to place approximately 115 students–ages 6-22–in the same building, which poses both impracticality and a safety issue of placing a significant number of adult-sized students in the same building as 6-year-old students.