What would you do to improve cooperation with township supervisors?

Jim Grabusky: I think addressing it and letting people in the community know where it’s going and where it’s been is an important start. Keeping an open forum is a good start at keeping people informed and able to comment and see what goes on.

Jeffrey Dimmig: It’s just unacceptable on both sides. There’s no reason the school board should be locking heads. We could cast blame but we need to take responsibility. I take responsibility. We missed out on some opportunities. It’s about the community. Not about the school district, it’s about the community.

William Lycett: I think we need to get the personal agendas out of the way and just stick with the facts and what’s best for community as a whole. I served on the Parks and Recreation committee, so it’s kind of a personal question for me because as the chair of Parks and Recreation, the township supervisor came and presented and was willing to fund a field over behind the Hopewell School for access to the Curly Horse property that the township has behind that development.  It was kicked around, and it’s been kicked around, and how many years later, there’s been no improvement to the field behind Hopewell School. That could be a nice athletic field and there’s no park there. But, if the township was willing to fund it 100% all the school board had to do was say, “Makes sense, let’s do it,” but they couldn’t find a way to do it because of what I understood to be personal agendas.

John Quigley: I live in Lower Milford so I don’t have the interaction with the Upper Saucon Board of Supervisors. I’ve met them and they’re all good people, so I don’t know why there is this friction between those two groups. I hope the relationship improves. I think that’s one of the first things we have to address. I don’t think that’s going to continue I think we know on both sides that that has to improve.

Corrine A. Gunkle: I sit on the facility committee and I have since I started on the board so I perhaps, first hand have seen many of these particular conflicts. I think the reality of conflict is that there are definitely issues on both sides. That’s the reality of the conflict. But certainly there have been plenty of instances from a facilities perspective, I mean just in this very last facilities meeting of this week, of this last month, there were 3 issues that we had been waiting months for response from the Upper Saucon Township, so there have definitely been issues there and I think it needs to be worked on. I think that we are going to work on it and hopefully we will be able to improve that relationship.

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