Power Point from community meetings.

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• Power Point from community meetings.
• AD/ED All day every day kindergarten
• FTE Full time equivalency
• K-5 Kindergarten through 5th grade
• MS Middle School
• HS High School
• EC Early Childhood
• IRC Itasca Resource Center

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ISSUES

• ALL DAY/EVERY DAY KINDERGARTEN
• REALIGNMENT

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Additional staffing needed for AD/ED

• 5.5 FTE (includes prep time) - 467,000
• Additional space needed
• 5 rooms

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Realignment

• Approximately 125 students moved each spring
• Affecting students, families, teachers

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Current Space Available

• Forest Lake 16 classrooms
• Murphy 15 classrooms
• Southwest 13 classrooms
• Cohasset 14 classrooms

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of Sections (classrooms needed)

• Uses 06-07 numbers
• K - 10
• 1 - 10
• 2 - 9
• 3 - 9
• 4 - 8
• 5 - 8

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Special Ed classroom needs with grade level
buildings

• Grades 1-2 - 1 classroom
• Grades 3-4 - 3 classrooms

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Option A AD/ED with same K-5 buildings

• Pros
• Maintains neighborhood schools
• Maintains family cohesiveness K-5
• Family transportation convenience
• Maintains current PTC structure

• Cons
• Additional space
• Remodel at Forest Lake
• Remodel at Cohasset
• 2 additional new construction rooms needed at
  Murphy
• Cannot begin until fall of 2008 due to
  construction
• Realignment issues continue
• Cost (see next slide)

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Option A Cost

• Build 2 classrooms - 400,000
• Remodeling - 80,000
• Total Cost Option A - 480,000

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Option B AD/ED grade level buildings (K-5)

• Pros
• No realignment issues
• Title I services
• Cost savings in curriculum, materials, staff
  development

• Cons
• Additional space needed
• Remodeling
• Cost (see next slide)
• Some current walkers need transportation
• Unable to begin until fall of 2008
• Cohasset students not in cohort

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Option B Cost

• K-1 - Forest Lake
• 2-3 - Murphy 14 classrooms 2 additional rooms
  needed 300,000
• 4-5 Southwest 1 additional room needed
  135,000
• Remodeling costs in all buildings 80,000
• Total Cost Option B -
  515,000

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Option C AD/ED with grade level buildings
(EC-4)5th grade to MS 8th grade to HS

• Pros
• Start fall of 2007
• Could be out of IRC
• Realignment issue goes away
• Cost savings in materials, curriculum, and staff
  development
• Title I services
• Academic access
• Minimizes special ed. programming concerns

• Cons
• Some current walkers need transportation
• Estimate some cost
• Cohasset students not in cohort

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Option C Cost

• EC/K Southwest - remodel 3 bathrooms in
  existing classrooms - 100,000
• 1-2 Murphy
• 3-4 Forest Lake
• Total cost Option C -
  100,000

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Academic Access

• State is moving mandatory Algebra to 8th grade
• A fifth year of World language has long been
  desirable for IB Diploma candidates
• Increased elective offerings for 8th graders

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Option D AD/ED with K-4 buildings 5th grade to
MS 8TH grade to HS

• Pros
• Start fall 2007
• Limited remodeling
• Academic access

• Cons
• Realignment issues continue

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Option D Cost

• Limited remodeling costs

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Option E AD/ED - reopen Riverview for
additional 5 classroom need

• Pros
• District already owns
• playground

• Cons
• Additional costs to bring building up to par
• Additional support staff needed
• Yearly maintenance costs
• Determining what 5 classrooms would go into this
  building?

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Option E Cost

• Bring Riverview up to status as other elementary
  buildings - 1,500,000
• Annual operating costs - 285,000
• Total cost Option E - 1,785,000

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Other Options (referendum required)

• 1 large new elementary E-5
• Approximate cost - 25,000,000
• 2 new elementaries (north-south)
• Approximate cost - 27,300,000

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Another referendum option

• Run an operating levy referendum
• 500,000 to add 6-7 additional sections
• AND
• Run a building referendum to put additions on all
  the elementaries
• 2,000,000 to add 11-12 classrooms

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Critical considerations

• Room for additional classrooms if monies to lower
  class sizes becomes available
• Potential for growing enrollment

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• If you have any questions please contact
• District 318 Superintendent
• Joe Silko at 327-5704
• jsilko_at_isd318.org