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Consultants report community support for medium funding level; recommend removing fieldhouse from high option
Summary
A community engagement consultant reported phase-2 results showing broad favorability for safety, infrastructure and mechanical upgrades and recommended removing a proposed $45 million fieldhouse from the high funding scenario as the board prepares phase-3 options for potential referendum.
Ed Sullivan, a consultant leading the district’s community engagement process, told the Ball Chatham CUSD 5 Board of Education on Oct. 22 that phase‑2 outreach produced 821 responses overall and that a scientific phone survey of 501 residents showed a consistent set of priorities: safety and security, infrastructure and mechanicals.
“We are in a second phase, the end of the second phase of a 4 phase process to listen, to listen to the community and to gather their, their input,” Sullivan said. He reported that the community committee, public engagement attendees, and the phone survey all ranked safety and security, infrastructure and mechanicals among the top priorities.
Sullivan summarized favorability…
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