Health & Fitness
Wissahickon School Board Agenda Reveals First Glimpse into Construction of New High School
Investing in Education-What Price Monuments?
The agenda for Monday's meeting of the Wissahickon School Board was released on today.
Review of the agenda indicates that the Board is voting to approve $400,000 for astroturf for the existing sports field. That's a lot of money for carpet that will last only a few years!
Why such a short time for expensive carpet?
Find out what's happening in Lower Gwynedd-Ambler-Whitpainfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
A line item indicates the board seeks approval for the hiring of the engineering firm that will oversee the construction of the new high school. The one the administration and the board have denied all knowledge of (and that includes a sports stadium-one that will also need new, expensive carpet).
Here is an excerpt from the agenda:
Find out what's happening in Lower Gwynedd-Ambler-Whitpainfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
"Recommendation for approval to hire D’Huy Engineering for an amount not to exceed $14,000 for various services including development of Request for Proposals of 1) site topographic, features, utility and boundary survey, 2) preliminary geotechnical study, Phase 1 environmental, 3) environmental remediation report and 4) other consulting services."
D'Huy is the engineering firm responsible for the disastrous facilities study used by the administration and board for the past couple of years. Among many of the fatal flaws, the study includes a cost of $422,000 to replace the dishwasher in the kitchen of Mattison Elementary.
D'Huy is the engineering firm responsible for the Upper Dublin School District's recent expansion and construction. Have you been following the sad state of our neighboring district? Reduction in programs, layoffs, physical education as an elective? What happened to the teacher's pension plan?
Our district is on the same path as UDSD. Beautiful monuments, outsourced teachers and staff, reductions in pension.
Teachers and staff work so hard for our kids. Do we really need a monument and sports stadium in our school district?
At what price will these things come?
For further information on the topics being covered at this meeting, go to: http://www.wsdweb.org
