If anyone is growing impatient waiting on overt changes resulting from last year’s victory for the school improvement bond, he should know there is a constant flurry of activity off-stage among planners.
“We know that we have a bunch of stuff to do, and we are busy on it,” says second-year School Board member Steve Levin.
“We have priorities in terms of general principles. Now, though, we have to get down to nuts and bolts.
“We will choose projects and do what can be done over the summer, figuring out how to make it all work. We made a good choice in picking our consultant who will be like a program manager. He has started to give us advice on a bunch of things, but there is more to come,” Mr. Levin said.
But he promised the School Board is not going to be playing a passive role. “We, of course, are not going to hand it all over to the consultant and tell him to do everything,” Mr. Levin said.
“We need to understand the rationale for the choices. We need to have plenty of input on all of the priorities.
“We are going to have a lot to juggle, making things fit,” said the only rocket scientist ever elected to the School Board.
If the order of the projects is to be questioned, Mr. Levin has an answer.
“There will be things that are done first because they can be approved first,” he said. “There will be things done first because they can be done at a particular time, like over the summer because they can’t be done during the school year.”
(To be continued)
