Urgent! Fairfield Woods Middle School Building Project is in Jeopardy!
Monday, January 25, 2010
A COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT
This is not a just Fairfield Woods issue… this decision will impact feeder patterns into all of our middle schools and the high schools.
You MUST get involved, NOW… Critical VOTE will occur THIS WEEK
A BUILDING PLAN WAS PROPOSED: The FWMS Building Committee voted 8 to 1 in favor of proposed building "Plan D" last week. This building plan was designed to the BOE specification to accommodate 840 students, 30% MORE STUDENTS, with increased classrooms and core facility space such as cafeteria, kitchen, nurse's station, as well as auditorium, PE, and PT/OT additions.
MR. FLATTO OPPOSES PLAN: The First Selectman, in a PTSA meeting at Woods, last week, vocally opposed this project, despite the endorsement of both his own appointed Fairfield Woods Facilities Committee and Fairfield Woods Building Committee. Without the Town Selectmen's support, this project may be denied, delayed, cut back – leading to overcrowding, insufficient facilities and an enormous disparity among the 3 middle schools.
TIMING IS CRUCIAL: The surge in middle school population begins Sept. 2011 – beginning with our current 4th graders as they enter 6th grade. Without this project, our students will experience overcrowding, insufficient cafeteria space, longer lunch lines, crowded gym and library facilities, and the team concept will be in severe jeopardy.
BLACK ROCK SIDE OF TOWN NEEDS ANOTHER GYM AND AUDITORIUM: The other two middle schools have complete auditoriums and auxiliary gyms – at Woods, young teens sit on the gym floor to attend school wide assemblies; gym is cancelled during concert weeks because chairs are set up; basketball games/practices are cancelled during concert weeks; young Woods musicians never experience performing on a stage with proper acoustics. And the number of gym facilities for evening sports' practice is not sufficient to accommodate the need – is it ok to allow 7 year olds to practice basketball until 8 pm on a school night because that is the only available gym time?
You CAN influence the outcome of this critical vote by:
Contacting the First Selectman and the Board of Selectmen, asking them to approve this building project in full:
Kenneth Flatto (256 -3030) -
Sherri Steeneck (400-2060)
Ralph Bowley (521-3997)
And,
Attending the Board of Selectmen Meeting:
THIS Wednesday, January 27th at 4:30pm at Sullivan Independence Town Hall, 1st Floor Conference Room.
You do not need to speak…. A STRONG PARENT PRESENCE IS IMPACTFUL. Feel free to attend with your children.
Also, please attend any of the following meetings:
Board of Finance
Tuesday, Feb. 2nd at 7:30 pm- 2nd fl. Conf. BOE
RTM Committees (this item could go to all 5 committees. They meet separately, not together, and they meet in the various conference rooms in
Independence Hall, so check the meeting board schedule on the first floor):
Legislation & Administration
Monday, Feb. 8th at 7 pm
Finance
Monday, Feb. 8th at 7:30 pm
Public Works
Monday, Feb. 8th at 8 pm
Education
Wednesday, Feb, 10th 7 pm
Health and Safety
Wed. Feb 10th 7:30 pm
RTM
Mon., Feb. 22nd at 8 pm
APR-Osborn School
Town Planning and Zoning
Meets the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month
McKinley School at 7:30 pm
This is not a just Fairfield Woods issue… this decision will impact feeder patterns into all of our middle schools and the high schools.
You MUST get involved, NOW… Critical VOTE will occur THIS WEEK
A BUILDING PLAN WAS PROPOSED: The FWMS Building Committee voted 8 to 1 in favor of proposed building "Plan D" last week. This building plan was designed to the BOE specification to accommodate 840 students, 30% MORE STUDENTS, with increased classrooms and core facility space such as cafeteria, kitchen, nurse's station, as well as auditorium, PE, and PT/OT additions.
MR. FLATTO OPPOSES PLAN: The First Selectman, in a PTSA meeting at Woods, last week, vocally opposed this project, despite the endorsement of both his own appointed Fairfield Woods Facilities Committee and Fairfield Woods Building Committee. Without the Town Selectmen's support, this project may be denied, delayed, cut back – leading to overcrowding, insufficient facilities and an enormous disparity among the 3 middle schools.
TIMING IS CRUCIAL: The surge in middle school population begins Sept. 2011 – beginning with our current 4th graders as they enter 6th grade. Without this project, our students will experience overcrowding, insufficient cafeteria space, longer lunch lines, crowded gym and library facilities, and the team concept will be in severe jeopardy.
BLACK ROCK SIDE OF TOWN NEEDS ANOTHER GYM AND AUDITORIUM: The other two middle schools have complete auditoriums and auxiliary gyms – at Woods, young teens sit on the gym floor to attend school wide assemblies; gym is cancelled during concert weeks because chairs are set up; basketball games/practices are cancelled during concert weeks; young Woods musicians never experience performing on a stage with proper acoustics. And the number of gym facilities for evening sports' practice is not sufficient to accommodate the need – is it ok to allow 7 year olds to practice basketball until 8 pm on a school night because that is the only available gym time?
You CAN influence the outcome of this critical vote by:
Contacting the First Selectman and the Board of Selectmen, asking them to approve this building project in full:
Kenneth Flatto (256 -3030) -
Sherri Steeneck (400-2060)
Ralph Bowley (521-3997)
And,
Attending the Board of Selectmen Meeting:
THIS Wednesday, January 27th at 4:30pm at Sullivan Independence Town Hall, 1st Floor Conference Room.
You do not need to speak…. A STRONG PARENT PRESENCE IS IMPACTFUL. Feel free to attend with your children.
Also, please attend any of the following meetings:
Board of Finance
Tuesday, Feb. 2nd at 7:30 pm- 2nd fl. Conf. BOE
RTM Committees (this item could go to all 5 committees. They meet separately, not together, and they meet in the various conference rooms in
Independence Hall, so check the meeting board schedule on the first floor):
Legislation & Administration
Monday, Feb. 8th at 7 pm
Finance
Monday, Feb. 8th at 7:30 pm
Public Works
Monday, Feb. 8th at 8 pm
Education
Wednesday, Feb, 10th 7 pm
Health and Safety
Wed. Feb 10th 7:30 pm
RTM
Mon., Feb. 22nd at 8 pm
APR-Osborn School
Town Planning and Zoning
Meets the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month
McKinley School at 7:30 pm
