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Neighbor complains board's construction removed gym and left students without gym classes
Summary
A resident, Matias Garcia, told the board a new construction project at Grey Junior High erected a long wall and demolished the gym/dressing rooms, leaving students without gym classes until temporary facilities or the new building are available.
Matias Garcia, who says he lives behind Grey Junior High, told trustees the district built "a wall a 132 yards across the front of our properties" and said the project's sequencing removed the gym and dressing rooms before the new gym was ready. "The kids have no gym class anymore because there's no gym," Garcia said, asking the board to consider taking down the wall and to reexamine construction sequencing.
Garcia said the wall and the way construction was carried out affected his property's value and neighborhood aesthetics; he asked the district to study alternatives such as placing the new gym partially on the old gym's footprint or providing interim trailers so students can continue physical education. He offered to provide supporting letters from local organizations.
