Reviewing the Possibilities
During its June 23 meeting, the Fremont Public Schools Board of Education received a report from the Strategies for Student Success (S3) Facilities Committee. The Board had previously received year-end reports from the other S3 committees, including the World Ready, the Technology and the Community Connections committees.
At the onset of the 2007-08 school year, Fremont Public Schools asked, “How do we prepare students to be ‘World Ready?’?” From there, survey responses flooded in and committees formed to study the information and make recommendations to the FPS Board of Education, following a year of discussion and research.
Dave Byrne, a member of the S3 Facilities Committee, made the presentation to the Board, beginning first with a quick review of the committee’s process. According to Byrne, the committee began its discussions by developing a master plan for the district – focusing on needed repairs, as well as areas of improvement. The number one area needing improvement: Fremont High School.
The need for vast changes and improvements in the high school facility was so apparent, the committee decided to divide into subcommittees and study out possibilities for updating the facility. Each subcommittee ended up studying out not only the existing high school but possible sites for a new facility. In the end, four possible areas were identified by the committee, including land north of NCRESA, the current high school location, on the current middle school property, and on the fairgrounds’ property south of the athletic complex.
Byrne informed the Board that all four sites had been evaluated to make sure a facility would be feasible and all four locations proved to be suitable for a facility – each with minor drawbacks of its own. Based on this information, Byrne then asked the Board to allow the Facilities Committee to continue meeting outside the S3 realm, authorizing the committee to pursue feedback regarding the possibility of a new facility and the four possible locations identified by the committee. That’s where you come in…
Shown here are the four possible locations identified by the committee. Please take a moment to review the possibilities and then let us know what you think! You may call us at (231) 924-2350, e-mail us at futureoffremont@fremont.net, or mail the included feedback form to 220 W. Pine Street, Fremont, MI 49412. Anyway you choose – we look forward to your input!
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