May 2019

Facility Planning

Last December, the Alburnett School Board hired OPN Architects to conduct a facility assessment and to propose options to meet our growing facility needs. At the same time, a group of 25 community members were asked to form a facilities committee. Using the result of OPN’s assessments and analysis of both current and future needs, the committee reviewed scenarios and arrived at a recommendation for long-term solutions that addressed the most immediate needs of the district’s facilities, while also looking to the future needs.

The Alburnett School Board voted on March 28 to accept the Facilities Committee’s proposed plan. The board’s next step would be to call for an election so residents of the school district could cast their vote. The decision to call an election, though, must first come from registered voters in the Alburnett district. At the time of this writing, community members are circulating a petition asking the school board to call the election. A petition such as this is not a request to vote one way or the other. The time for that will come later, likely June 25. Once an election has been called, the district will hold more open houses and share more information about the proposed plan through various channels.

In the meantime, please visit the section on the district website that is dedicated to information about planning. You will find a link of the front page at www.alburnettcsd.org. There will you be able to access a video tour of current spaces and a continuously growing Frequently Asked Questions page.

Dani Trimble

Superintendent