October 10th Meeting Overview

The Sub-Committee is back to the original size, around 25 people. We spent the first 1.5 hours going over information we had already covered and wasted a lot of time. Then we broke out into 3 sub-sub-committees, one for the new high school, one for the Junior highs and one for Elementary and Intermediate schools. Each group was to determine the best solution for each level in the follow areas:

1. Determine how many new schools would be needed.

2. The time frame of when each school would be needed.

3. The location of each school.

Each group will then present their proposals to the group as a whole for further discussion. This process began in the last 20 minutes of the meeting and it was the only real value that came out of the meeting.

I served on the group looking at Elementaries and Intermediate schools. We generally agreed that we would need to build the following schools:

1. K-4 Elementary in Northpointe - Construction to begin immediately
2. K-6 in The Woodlands area that would be converted to a K-4 - Construction to begin immediately
3. Intermediate School in The Woodlands - Construction to begin after the K-6 is complete.
4. Another K-4 Elementary in the north part of the district. Construction would begin sometime around 2009/2010.

We have land for the first three schools, but do not have land or a specific location for the last elementary.