School Facilities Spending Approved, But Leaves Big Needs at Elementary Schools Off the List
Muskego school board narrowly passes recommendation to spend nearly $2.6 million to fix what's ailing throughout school buildings, with some notable exclusions.
The failure of the November 2010 and November 2011 school facilities referenda, which would have approved borrowing up to $30 million to update existing and builld new school facilities, meant that the Muskego-Norways school board had to go back to the drawing board. Monday night, after several rounds of discussion the school board decided to spend $814,000 from their budget and $1.78 million of their fund balance to get started on the long 'punch list' that the schools have presented. Among the items that will be repaired or replaced are roof sections on the Educational Services Center and all but one school (Lakeview Elementary). The expenditure takes up the vast majority of the total, at nearly $1.2 million. Other projects will include …
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Christine Webb
8:10 pm on Saturday, March 31, 2012
Considering at Muskego Elem, you can hear the kids tip toe on the second floor when on the first floor, don't you think that is the school that should be on the minds of the school board?? It has 6-7 levels in that school! Maybe the building can be replaced, but keep some of the "historical" items in the design. They did that when my old high school, when they tore it down to add to the "newer' … more ›