High School Study Meeting Postponed

The meeting scheduled for later this month to address a feasibility study has been postponed.

Harford County Public Schools Manager of Communications Teri Kranefeld told Wednesday the meeting "will be rescheduled in the future when we reach the educational specification phase of the process."

, the meeting was "to outline the process and the timeline of the scope study process," according to a statement from , 

Kranefeld said Harford County Public Schools are just now "at the very beginning stages of the process which is the scope study phase."

The scope study, Kranefeld said, would allow the system to assess the facility itself and consider "options for building replacement, modernization and/or addition."

"More information will be forthcoming as the project progresses," Kranefeld said.

The school system's Fiscal Year 2012 budget was approved with a feasibility study on a new high school included.

That study, according to the Harford County Public Schools statement announcing the now-postponed meeting, would "evaluate the existing conditions of the two building school facility, collect and review community input, and make recommendations to the Board of Education for a concept plan to redevelop the campus sometime in the future to better suit the current educational program delivery. The intent is that the proposed concept plan will preserve the history and heritage of this school as a community symbol as well as to enhance the landscape of the urban environment."

County Executive David Craig—a Havre de Grace alum— of a new high school with a magnet program in Havre de Grace.

 passed a resolution in March 2011 to , led by Havre de Grace City Councilman Randy Craig and then-City Councilman Mitch Shank.

Randy Craig reiterated at that a magnet program is imperative for the entire community. He also urged residents to come out to the meeting.

was built in 1955 and renovated in 1983.