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Ms,
Haynes, will you please see to that ALL BOARD members and CABC
members receive this email, today! I hope to be at the meeting
tonight.
Thank you.
Sherry
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TO ALL
CONCERNED.
According to the accounts in the article the
Tuesday morning edition on line of the Beaumont Enterprise, it
appears that you are looking for ways to trim costs. Well, here's a
suggestion for you...
get ACCURATE estimates of what repairs South Park
needs!!!
Please do
yourselves a favor and read the
response to the 3DI report that was published in Sunday's paper!
I have attached it for you. That's the short version of the report
that was submitted to each of you at a School Board meeting, along
with our 2800 petitions to save the school, as a school, along with a
letter from the Historical Commission laying out for you where grant
money would and could be available! Did you even look
at those items? The school ALREADY is eligible for the National
Registry and could easily be marked as a Historical Landmark!
3DI has
recommended
1. costly asbestos abatement they "ASSUME" it
needs
-- abatement has
already been done. There is no costly abatement left to
do.
2. costly
extensive termite damage
-- 85% of the building is
concrete! The termites have been exterminated and the damages seem to be
in one room where there is an external water line adjacent to
it.
3. "poor
layout of classrooms will require complete interior demolition"
-- what kind of
nonsensical cost padding is that!
4. water
drainage problems
-- redirect the water
drainage!
5. needs a
roof
--
you can buy a roof for a whole lot less than however many millions of
dollars it will cost to put a new roof on a brand new
school!
6.
Renovation would not be feasible because of
"potentially costly
unknowns."
-- "Costly unknowns"??? You have to love that
line.
7. 750 student
capacity for middle schools?
Did I
understand that right? But you are saying there are only
200-300 middle school students in South Park as a reason why there
can't be a high school. So, if that's the case, there will
NEVER be a justification to build a new school in South Park. Guess the
kids just get bussed. With Bingman gone, and now South Park -- hey, South
Park Neighborhood kids can just ride the bus.
These items
are just for starters, off the top. There is absolutely NO
justification for making a decision to scrap a beautiful school on false,
incorrect and vague data - not to mention the fact that a very large
percentage of our petitions submitted to you to save the school as a
school came from residents, parents in the South
Park community! And petitions
are still coming in daily.
I find it
completely baffling why, now, after over 80
years of SP school being an anchor point of the South Park
Neighborhood, the glue that has held that
community together, we now face this dilemma with this
particular group of individuals out to destroy
it.
Throwing money at contractors and promising the
community a new school won't change the problems in South Park. What the
community needs is concerned city officials, improved community safety and
security (law enforcement!!), good teachers, community and parent/student
involvement. Those are factors that can address and fix problems in South
Park.
If you want this bond issue to
pass, then it would be wise to exercise some common sense!
Leave South Park alone! Give it a new roof and some paint. That's what,
maybe a couple million. I'm absolutely certain that the
building could be restorable and quite useable if someone were sent there
to examine it who was not connected to a construction bid process.
You could then either subtract all those millions from your
total package cost, or put that money into your athletic
complex!
Sincerely, Sherry Moyer Sharp Beaumont native SP-'65 | |||
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