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Councilwoman urges restoration of promised Kenmore school rebuilds and remaining LFI funds
Summary
Councilwoman Boyse told Akron City Council that Akron Public Schools' plans could remove promised rebuilding of Pfeiffer Elementary and Miller South and urged the mayor and joint board to release remaining locally funded initiatives (LFI) funds to fulfill prior commitments to Kenmore.
Councilwoman Boyse told Akron City Council she is urging Mayor Malek and members of the joint board of review to approve remaining locally funded initiatives (LFI) dollars to rebuild Pfeiffer Elementary School and Miller South School for the Visual and Performing Arts on the Kenmore High School site.
Boyse said Akron Public Schools removed Miller South from the Kenmore cluster and that reconstruction plans are now in jeopardy because the district is considering three plans to address a budget shortfall. "Two of the three do away with the rebuilding of the only elementary school left in the northern two thirds of my community," Boyse said, and warned that would force half of students to travel more than four miles out of the neighborhood.
She reminded the council that in 2003 Kenmore voters approved a quarter‑percent tax increase and argued that those LFI funds were intended for rebuilding neighborhood schools. "It is our duty to ensure those funds go for exactly what voters had approved," Boyse said, urging the joint board to make the allocation that would keep Pfeiffer and Miller South on the Kenmore High School site.
Council did not take formal action on Boyse's request during the meeting.
