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Montessori school seeks Carbonate Street childcare center; trustees request memorandum of understanding before lease
Summary
Shining Mountains Montessori presented a plan to expand to a multi‑room early childhood center on Carbonate Street with sliding‑scale tuition and two target cohorts of infant/toddler/children’s‑house rooms. Trustees asked staff to draft a nonbinding MOU rather than a lease while federal funding and environmental clearance remain uncertain.
Representatives of Shining Mountains Montessori (Emily Petty, executive director; Kirsten Gamond, school director; and others) told the Board of Trustees on April 22 they want to expand from roughly 20 current students to an early childhood center on Carbonate Street that would include infant, toddler and children’s‑house rooms and serve as many as 75 students across locations in a full expansion scenario.
The presenters said they retained an expansion consultant to model a program budget that includes three options. The school is seeking a timeline that would allow a fall 2026 opening for the Carbonate Street space, contingent on an outstanding federal funding award that would pay for interior finish work. Staff and trustees noted the federal money remains pending clearance and that the environmental review associated with the federal funding remains incomplete.
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