Evansville Schools: Planning: AdHoc Committee Meets August 18th: Citizens Welcome to Meeting 7PM; J.C. McKenna Cafeteria

(Ed.note: The following is unedited from the School Website report of Supr. Report for August 11, 2008)

Long Range Planning
We have a good cross section of staff and citizens who will meet in the JC McKenna cafeteria at 7 p.m.
on Monday, August 18. The meeting is open to any interested citizens and staff. Hopefully, most board
members will also be able to attend. We have prepared a binder of background documents and will add
more as additional information is developed. These are challenging times to think about the future. A
natural impulse would be to wait and see what happens. Some of the problematic decisions I have seen in
the facilities in a variety of districts came about due to a general belief that districts would stop growing
and you could just patch or make a small addition and everything would be fine. Decades later the results
of those decisions are still being felt. The 2000 referendum on the other hand was truly visionary while
still keeping in mind the available resources of the district. My hope is that whatever plan we develop can
stay true to the visionary process and mindset that prevailed at that time.