Council Rock School Board to Vote on Capital Plan Motions

The Council Rock School Board is expected to take action on a new Capital Plan during a meeting Thursday. The meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Chancellor Center.

The board has been working on gaining input and developing a new Capital Plan for several months. Discussions have included closing schools and redistricting, however, the board is not expected to vote on closing a school at this week’s meeting.

Here is a look at the motions that board expects to consider:

• I move to continue routine maintenance of our buildings. This routine maintenance will be presented annually for approval and will not be forecasted in the 5 year plan.
• I move and direct the administration to begin implementation of a long-term elementary school plan that removes all students/instructional programs from all trailers in the 2015-16 school year, leaving a maximum of 2 trailers per school for storage only. The administration should present this plan to the Board at the first meeting in January 2015. Additionally, the administration will present a plan to remove the remaining storage trailers by August 31, 2016; this plan should be presented to the board at the meeting in August 2015.
• I move and direct the administration to begin implementation of a long-term elementary school plan that develops options for redistricting and/or school consolidation beginning in the 2016-17 school year and include consideration of school building efficiencies. This plan should be delivered to the school board at the first School Board meeting in November 2015. This plan should take into consideration all variables in the CRSD 5 Year Plan.
• I move and direct the administration to begin implementation of a long-term middle school plan that renovates Holland Middle School. At the conclusion of renovations, students attending Richboro Middle School will be redistricted to Holland Middle School. This allows for evaluation of repurposing or sale of the Richboro Middle School property.
• I move and direct the administration to begin implementation of a long-term middle school plan that includes construction of a new Newtown Middle School on the current Newtown Middle School property and demolishes the current structure.
• I move and direct the administration to remove 2 trailers from Richboro Middle School for the 2015-2016 school year.
• I move and direct the administration to begin implementation of a long-term plan for capacity and efficiency of other district buildings. This includes directing the administration to begin reducing the use of the LSAC building with commensurate reduction in lease payments starting by August 31, 2015 from the elimination of all facility use that is not essential to the education of students. Additionally, the plan should include the termination of the lease following the reassignment of student programs from the LSAC building on or before October 2019, or the closure of Richboro Middle School as a middle school, whichever comes first.
• I move and direct the administration to begin implementation of a long-term plan for capacity and efficiency of other district buildings that also includes an evaluation of relocating the Twining Ford Road Facility and the use and potential for repurposing or selling the Twining Ford property.