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Nelson County Board approves local planning committee’s facility plan, schedules public hearing
Summary
After months of meetings, the board approved a District Facility Plan (DFP) recommending 6–12 East/West campuses, expanded CTE at OKH and Bloomfield, and renovations at New Haven and Cox’s Creek; the vote was 3–2 and a public hearing is set for June 9.
The Nelson County Board of Education voted 3–2 on May 20 to approve the draft District Facility Plan recommended by the Local Planning Committee (LPC), setting a public hearing for June 9 and appointing LPC facilitator James Nijhoff to conduct the hearing.
Adam Gosselin, chair of the LPC, described the committee’s months-long process and its data-driven recommendation. “There was 19 of parents, administrators, and teachers and stuff across the district,” Gosselin said, summarizing the committee’s membership and work. The LPC evaluated four organizational models and recommended a 6–12 East/West campus model that, the committee concluded, would expand access to career and technical education (CTE) at OKH…
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