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Waunakee board reviews four high‑school campus options with wide cost ranges
Summary
District staff and consultants reviewed four conceptual campus options (A–D), preliminary cost ranges and next steps; the board asked for more detail on academic needs, phasing and tax impacts and made no decision.
The Waunakee Community School District convened a special board meeting to continue planning for the high‑school campus and hear preliminary conceptual options and cost estimates from district staff and consultants.
Dr. Brown, staff member, opened the presentation and framed the meeting as informational: "Decisions, we are not looking for decisions tonight," she said, adding the district seeks board feedback to guide next steps.
Consultants presented four high‑school campus concepts. Mike Schwanhammer, design architect with DUA, described the options as preliminary and exploratory and said they reflect enrollment planning assumptions (1,610 students by 2040). Jay Thompson, cost estimator with Boulder Brothers Billing Company, provided high‑level project scopes and inclusive cost ranges (construction plus soft costs). At the presentation level the ranges shown were: - Option A: mostly minimal work to re‑use the existing middle school space for high‑school use — preliminary range cited for the work needed at the middle‑school building was about $2 million to $3.5…
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