Following failed warrant articles to expand Moose Hill to allow for full-day kindergarten and to make room for more space at the school, the Londonderry School Board had a debriefing during its April 2 meeting.
Superintendent, Dan Black, said he thinks one thing they did well was the School Board going through the whole “process” where they discussed it for a while and then brought it to the voters with all the information.
While he said he thinks they have time to come up with different options for what should be presented to the voters next year, he said he thinks they should also think about what the process should be.
School Board member, Amanda Butcher, said one thing she thinks that will be critical is getting more feedback from the community.
“I think feedback is going to be one big piece,” she said.
She also noted that she thinks it’s important to further educate voters about special education laws, and laws related to things like IEPS so voters understand that the space needs aren’t “luxuries,” but rather are needed.
School Board member, Kevin Gray, said he wants the Moose Hill Building Committee to stay active, saying that they have a lot of experience and that he thinks they could look at ways to bring down the cost of the project potentially or potentially coming up with innovative ideas.
“I think that would be a really big step,” he said.
School Board member, Tim Porter, added that he was looking forward to seeing some of the different options should the feedback from the community be that it is not palpable with the current option.
“I’m looking forward to brainstorming some other possibilities for alternatives,” he said.
School Board Chair, Bob Slater, said he thinks they should have an “open hour” at Moose Hill soon for people to give input or be able to have questions answered right at the school. He added that they should also have one sometime in May.
He said after they get input they should bring it back to the Board for further discussion sometime in June.
“If we’re going to do something we’re gonna need to jump on it by the beginning of July,” Slater said.