LATEST CAPITAL PLAN TARGETS CHS FUTURE CHANGES

The Board of Education recently released the latest capital improvement master plan, most of which deals with Columbia High School.

See all of the options, and costs, HERE.

Among the information is a plan for eliminating the CHS pool, which is in need of repairs, or renovating it.

The plan states eliminating the poOl would take into account:

• Impact on Physical Education Program
– Increased class size
– Students taking repeat courses/reduced offerings
– Students placed in non-requested programs
– Fitness and other indoor classes held outdoors
– Limited spaces for student transfers
– 30% of freshman class don’t know how to swim

• Impact on Swim Team
– Cost of rental space for swim team ($12-14,000 per year)
– Cost of transportation for swim team $265 per day x 20 days = $5,300 
plus transportation for lack of “home” meets = $2,000
– Reduced practice days and times (up to 10 hours per week less)
– Meets all away – no “home” meets
– Inconvenience of distance to practices and meets