{"id":74759,"date":"2015-06-12T07:49:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T12:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=74759"},"modified":"2015-06-12T17:03:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T22:03:09","slug":"74759","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=74759","title":{"rendered":"Board reviews elementary school master plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now Showing on CSi TV 10 – The Replay Channel<\/a> :<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jamestown (CSi) At a Special Meeting, the Jamestown Public School Board Thursday evening reviewed concept-facility assessments for master planning of the city\u2019s elementary schools.<\/p>\n

The School Board will seek feedback from the education staff, parents and the community on a combination of ideas.<\/p>\n

Recommendations for four concepts were developed by DLR Group, an architectural design firm based in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

The concepts were based on an enrollment study that projects a 7 percent increase in Jamestown\u2019s K-12 school population to reach 2,380 pupils by 2020.<\/p>\n

DLR Group Principal Christopher Gibbs presented the recommendations based on a school facilities assessment study. It produced a three-option plan based on an anticipated five-year, 1,200-student population growth with 10 sections in each grade level.<\/p>\n

The concepts are alternatives to deferred maintenance options that run approximately $44.9 million for estimated structural improvements at all city schools.<\/p>\n

Gussner Elementary School was by itself $5.4 million, followed by Lincoln Elementary at $5.1 million, Louis L\u2019Amour Elementary at $2.2 million, Roosevelt Elementary at $5 million and Washington Elementary at $5.3 million. The middle school deferred maintenance is at $13.2 million or $19 million depending on certain work. The high school is at $2.9 million, the alternative high school at $1 million and the James Valley Career and Technology Center at $4.8 million.<\/p>\n

The options\/concepts<\/p>\n

* Option 1 is the least expensive alternative with the least amount of change at $23.9 million. It adds a new two-section elementary school for 240 students and makes Louis L\u2019Amour Elementary a two-section building. A one-section school would have one version of each grade. It would also update three elementary buildings and eliminate Washington as a K-5 facility.<\/p>\n

* Option 2 was called the most efficient and expensive at $34.9 million, according to the DLR Group study recommendation. It eliminates Washington and Roosevelt elementary schools, adds one new four-section elementary school and converts Louis L\u2019Amour to a two-section building.<\/p>\n

* Option 3 costs $31.5 million or $33.5 million if a gymnasium is added to Roosevelt. It would eliminate Washington and update Louis L\u2019Amour and Gussner schools to accommodate 360 students and renovate Roosevelt and Lincoln to handle 240 students.<\/p>\n

A fourth option offers no alternatives but would essentially manage growth within the current structures. It is not a recommended option in the DLR Group study.<\/p>\n

The meeting including comments from the school board members was recorded by CSi 10 THE REPLAY CHANNEL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now Showing on CSi TV 10 – The Replay Channel : Jamestown (CSi) At a Special Meeting, the Jamestown Public School Board Thursday evening reviewed concept-facility assessments for master planning of the city\u2019s elementary schools. The School Board will seek feedback from the education staff, parents and the community on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74759"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74842,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74759\/revisions\/74842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}