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New school construction committee meeting (5-19-08)

May 22nd, 2008 . by Suzan

Frank & I were able to make it to Monday night’s new school construction committee meeting, as promised.  A few committee members were absent, though I couldn’t tell you which ones – I recognize most of their names (as published in the paper a few weeks ago), but am not 100% sure which faces to match them with.

Steve Elliott, the district’s architect from Little Rock, was back with the latest revisions to the layout for the new elementary school.  Read the rest of this entry »


New school construction committee meeting

May 13th, 2008 . by Suzan

Frank & I attended last night’s meeting of the New Elementary School Construction Committee … and were the only 2 non-committee members in the room.  Almost all the committee members were present; shortly after the meeting came to order, I counted 20 heads around the table, including chairman Robert Nelson (plus Dr. Scriber, Ann Thomas and Joy Walker, who are not technically on the committee).  A couple of people came in late.

The bulk of the meeting was taken up reviewing the changes the architect, Steve Elliott, had made based on last week’s meeting, which we could not attend due to other obligations. 

Since it will be some time before the plans for this new school are published where we can ALL see them, I’ll describe the building for you here. 

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