Wednesday, May 22, 2013
The Cleveland Heights - University Heights School Board wants residents to bring feedback into the Lay Facilities Plan to the June 4 school board meeting.
The Cleveland Heights - University Heights School Board is giving the public one more chance to provide comments on the Lay Facilities Plan before they make a final decision. Board members want residents to come to the June 4 regular meeting and speak their mind on the $234 million plan to modernize the school district's aging buildings and bring its facilities in line with its student population. The project would involve closing some schools and remodeling others, and would require voters to approve a capital improvement levy this fall to bring in about $138 million. The school board received the final report from the facilities committee earlier this month, and now have to decide what to do by July in order to get the levy on the ballot…
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Final proposal would close Wiley, Noble, Fairfax; keep five elementary and two middle schools
The Cleveland Heights-University Heights Schools Lay Facilities Committee made their final recommendation for reconfiguring the district's schools. The committee, created by the CH-UH School Board at the recommendation of FutureHeights and Reaching Heights, is tasked with examining the facilities master plan and determining what aspects of the plan the community would support. At the Board of Education's May 7 meeting, the committee presented a plan to close Noble and Fairfax elementary schools and Wiley Middle School; rebuild Boulevard Elementary; and renovate the remaining four elementaries, Monticello and Roxboro middle schools and the high school. Click here to see the committee's presentation. The $234.4 million project would take …
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Lay Facilities Committee nearing finalization of a facilities master plan recommendation for Board of Education with a $232 million price tag
The Cleveland Heights-University Heights School District Lay Facilities Committee is eying a $232.7 million master facilities plan recommendation to the Board of Education. The committee's plan will likely call for a 6.34-mill bond issue to be passed in the November 2013 elections that would generate $135 million for Phase 1 of the project. The district could apply for a $15 million loan for the remainder of the cost of the first phase. The committee, created by the CH-UH School Board at the recommendation of FutureHeights and Reaching Heights, is tasked with examining the facilities master plan and determining what aspects of the plan the community would support. A draft of the plan will be presented for a vote at the committee's April 30…
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Committee will recommend that Gearity host elementary schools in University Heights under Cleveland Heights-University Heights City Schools restructure plan
Closing Wiley Middle School would save Cleveland Heights-University Heights an estimated $17 million on facilities restructure costs, the Lay Facilities Committee learned Wednesday. The cost of the scenarios the committee requested is estimated to be between $255 and $279 million dollars, according to information presented at Wednesday’s Lay Facilities Committee meeting. These estimates include all the improvements the committee would like to see, though the final version will likely be scaled down and cheaper. The committee, created by the CH-UH School Board at the recommendation of FutureHeights and Reaching Heights, is tasked with examining the facilities master plan and determining what aspects of the plan the community would support. …
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Cleveland Heights-University Heights Schools Lay Facilities Committee meets tonight
The Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District's Lay Facilities Committee will hear cost estimates on two possible building restructure plans at tonight's meeting. The committee will meet at Wiley Middle School tonight at 7 p.m. The committee, created by the CH-UH School Board at the recommendation of FutureHeights and Reaching Heights, is tasked with examining the facilities master plan and determining what aspects of the plan the community would support. In January, the committee presented six scenarios to reconfigure the district by closing some schools and using only the property that the district already owns — and cut the number of open schools in the disctrict from 11 to seven or eight. Last month they asked for …
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Cleveland Heights-University Heights votes to access costs of restructure models with five and seven elementary schools.
The Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District's Lay Facilities Committee voted to find the costs of three reconfigurations at Wednesday's meeting. The committee, created by the CH-UH School Board at the recommendation of FutureHeights and Reaching Heights, is tasked with examining the facilities master plan and determining what aspects of the plan the community would support. In January, the committee presented six scenarios to reconfigure the district by closing some schools and using only the property that the district already owns — and cut the number of open schools in the disctrict from 11 to seven or eight. Wednesday they asked for pricing on two versions of scenario 2A from the PDF to the right. The committee also …
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Lay Facilities Committee wants to hear your opinion on district restructuring
The Cleveland Heights-University Heights City Schools Lay Facilities Committee is seeking community members' input on the restructuring in the works for its schools. Committee members have underscored the importance of community support for whatever restructuring it recommends to the Board of Education this spring. The Board plans to ask voters to approve a bond issue in November to fund the facilities master plan. More about the CH-UH Facilities Master Plan Surveys - which can be found here - must be completed by March 2, 2013. SHARE this survey with your friends and colleagues in the community: just click "Email" above to send along or to post on Facebook or Twitter! Anyone who lives, works or owns a business in the district is asked to…
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
The Cleveland Heights-University Heights City Schools Lay Facilities Committee's six scenarios for recommendation to the school board all include an elementary school in University Heights.
University Heights will have an elementary school within its boundaries in each of the six recommendations under consideration by the district’s Lay Facilities Committee. The committee met Tuesday night to present six scenarios they have written for district restructuring and building renovation. The scenarios would close some buildings, including either the Gearity or Wiley building, but Committee Chair Patrick Mullen said that one of the two buildings would stay open and house the elementary school. The committee, created by the CH-UH School Board at the recommendation of FutureHeights and Reaching Heights, is tasked with examining the facilities master plan and determining what aspects of the plan the community would support. Next week…
Monday, January 28, 2013
Cleveland Heights-University Heights School District's committee charged with recommending plan to Board of Education will have a public meeting Wednesday.
The Cleveland Heights-University Heights City Schools Lay Facilities Committee will meet tomorrow night at the Delisle Center. The committee, created by the CH-UH School Board at the recommendation of FutureHeights and Reaching Heights, is to examine the facilities master plan and determine what aspects of the plan the community would support. They meet every three weeks and the meetings are open to the public. Tomorrow's meeting is at 7 p.m. at the Deborah S. Delisle Education Options Center, 14780 Superior Road in Cleveland Heights.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Heuer hopeful that district will approve and implement Master Facilities Plan in time for November 2013 ballot issue.
Cleveland Heights-University Heights City Schools Superintendent Doug Heuer told parents and community members that the district will ask residents to approve a bond issue this November. The bond would fund the district's Master Facilities Plan, which the district hopes to finalize this spring. Heuer outlined the district's accomplishments and challenges over the last year, including a CHHS senior whose essay granted her a visit with U.S. Seceretary of State Hillary Clinton, a football player who signed on with The Ohio State University, the district's students who earned national academic awards and the high school's receipt of a $35,000 grant to fund STEM curriculum. He also laid out goals for the future, which include professional …
michaelschwartz
3:49 pm on Friday, May 24, 2013
Richard you hit the nail on the head. The BOE has no problem throwing around thousands of dollars in their national Superintendent searches and the like but when it comes to a $240 million rebuild of the schools which will have potetnially disasterous property tax implications for homeowners, they shirk their responsibility by pawning off the decsion on well meaning but misguided and unqualified … more ›