CRCSD Future Ready Plan

- Possible tear down Arthur, new school on site

- Repurpose Garfield

- If not torn down repurpose Arthur as well

- Harrison or Madison might be gone/repurposed as well

- McKinley repurposed or possibly used for secondary community magnet school (wtf that means)

- Roosevelt is gone, repurpose within the community

- Harding is the same

- 1 site aquatic center for all schools.

312,406,511

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For the elementary schools they want to use a .01 sales tax. SAVE: Secure and Advanced Vision for Education

Secondary schools will be a March 2023 Property Levy, GO Bonds (GO)

Facilities Repair is property tax levy, Physical Plan and Equipment levy (PPEL)

From CRCSD website https://crschools.us/about/future-ready-facilities/background-on-funding/

CRCSD 2000 BOND $46m and it passed. Now asking for $312.4m

College Community has asked for $199m and all passed but one… leaving them at $149.5m

Linn-Mar has asked for $174.5 but the 80m failed, and they received $94.5m

Linn-Mar and College Community have seen massive growth in enrollments during this time but together they have received $244m and CRCSD is at $358.4m assuming this pass. How does that even make sense as it’s a 114.4m difference?

1st thing I want to talk about is the aquatic center. I think pools in all 3 high schools are valuable. It probably costs a lot of money, but I graduated in 2001 from the area. At that time all 3 pools needed maintenance that had kept being put off. CR played kick the can on all this stuff for years. I get they are used and need replacement and its expensive. I just don’t see how trying to funnel this all through one site where all the high school teams get to practice together really works out.

Dropping 3 middle schools to build 1 new one and renovating at another? How does that make sense? It’s not like there is a ton of free land on the northeast side of town to replace Harding. I get that renovations to the schools suck because they weren’t built for todays technology…my response to this is CRCSD has played kick the can on a lot of things.

LM and CC have been building new so its cheaper than renovations, but they have also come for there money in increments based on enrollment. I know that LM is in a position where they are going to have to build a new athletic area, and probably a new high school, another elementary school if not 2-3 in the next 10 years. Again, it’s all new so doesn’t cost as much.

Why does everything have to be the newest state of the art this or that, why can’t we just go for this is functional and it will work, and we have options to do an addition if we have to? In 1-2 years, it’s going to be trashed anyways.

I think the schools need help, but I think this is the school district asking for a lot, and I get that they are trying to plan for the next 20-30 years and even beyond, so they aren’t asking for 40m every 2-3 years.

If you own in CR your taxes are about to go up.