All the while, Burns and Crest will be soon be 60 years old and aging more every day.
Further advancing the reasoning for NOT building new multi-million-dollar attachments onto very old schools. Already infested with Mold and probably asbestos galore.
All this represents clear examples of bad management all around at CCS.
Also, it appears the Commissioners may seem to finally have awaken to the idea that good management practices must be utilized by all agencies that receive taxpayer funding. Just like I have challenged them to do. Which would be good. My conclusion is a little different. I predict the refusal of the Commissioners to provide additional funding to CCS is more a function of the Commissioners being afraid that their own new $150 Million Jail Complex and the new $8.5 No. 4 Shell building project has a high risk of going way over budget themselves, wrecking their own projects funding budgets by cost over-runs for CCS . Especially if they give $5.7 million to CCS for the new auditoriums.
What I would recommend fir CCS is this:
1.CCS build nothing new until a “real” Strategic Plan is developed for a Consolidated County School District, doing away with the old and outdated so-called “attendance zones” within Cleveland County borders.
2. Select the optimum or preferred size (attendance) of a High School and determine how many high schools are necessary in Cleveland County. Then determine how many high schools are required for all the students in Cleveland County
3.Develop a single modern design high school that includes equal facilities for each and every high school. Classrooms, auditorium, gymnasium with centralized HVAC, football field, baseball field, tennis courts with equal provisions for boys’ and girls’ sports.
4.Select the center of the number of attendance zones (based on the latest census data), selected in paragraph 2.
5.Construct this same design High School as close to the center of the attendance zone in a sequence such that a new high school is constructed every 5 years.
6.Using the location of the new high schools as the center, around which smaller middle schools and elementary schools would be constructed to best suit this model.
Note that these recommendations are of a general nature suitable for refinement to include roads, school bus routes, natural boundaries, etc.
Also Note that this general plan is 10,000 times more refined and equal than any plan CCS has developed on their own to this date.
