Archuleta School District (ASD) has announced the dates and locations for the upcoming community meetings on its facilities master plan.
At the meetings, the district will provide an update on the progress and outline the next steps in the facilities master plan, and the public is invited to participate in discussion about the plan.
The first of the meetings is set for 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 29, at Pagosa Springs High School, 800 S. 8th St.
The second will be on Nov. 13 at 6 p.m. at Pagosa Springs Middle School, 309 Lewis St.
The third will be the following evening, Nov. 14, at Pagosa Springs Elementary School, 141 S. 10th St.
Each meeting will include the same information, according to the district.
“We are proud of the academic growth teachers and building leaders have accomplished these past two years,” ASD Superintendent Rick Holt wrote in an email to The SUN. “We are ready to hear how the school district’s facilities might be improved to continue to contribute to our growing community.
“We are very excited to hear from our community members. We encourage all members of our community to attend a meeting and have their voice added to the conversation.
“We are ready to share the facility assessment results and gather feedback back from our parents, staff, and community members and partners.
“It is essential that the school district do all that we can to execute on the community’s vision for school facilities.”
The upcoming meetings were discussed by the district and Doug Abernethy of RTA Architects — a Colorado Springs-based firm specializing in educational projects — at the ASD Board of Education’s Oct. 14 meeting.
At the same meeting, Abernethy reported early findings from a summer survey on the district’s elementary, middle and high school buildings.
For more information on that survey, see the Oct. 17 issue of The SUN.
Describing the information sessions at the Oct. 14 meeting, Abernethy said, “We want to find out where the pinch points are, where some of the challenges are, the things that are going well.”
He added that the pace of any improvements would largely be determined by the school board and the community.
“It’s really up to the board and the community to have a conversation about where’s the priority, what do they think of the timing and what really makes sense,” he said.
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