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Residents and board members press Otter Valley district on proposed consolidations and data accuracy
Summary
Leicester attendees described errors in the Otter Valley business manager's presentation and deep concerns about proposed school closures and student relocations; the board urged transparency and encouraged residents to attend district meetings.
Several board members and residents summarized concerns arising from an Oct. 21 Otter Valley Unified Union District meeting. Speakers said the business manager’s slideshow contained inaccurate figures (principal salaries, student counts) and that the district appeared to be moving quickly toward consolidations that could close local schools and shift students to larger schools, raising transportation, facility and licensing issues for preschool and kindergarten programs.
Attendees urged greater transparency and better data from the supervisory union. One committee member warned that closing local schools could increase traffic and parking impacts during drop-off and pick-up, and that repurposing modular classroom units would be costly or impractical. The board discussed the potential for the district to return a building to the town for one dollar and noted uncertainty about capital-improvement paybacks spelled out in supervisory-union agreements.
