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School Committee

Current members of the committee are: Judy Granberg, Bob Hagen, Brad Olson, Dennis Roth and Blaine Kinnebrew.

If you are interested in helping on this committee, contact our chairperson Blaine Kinnebrew.

This committee has a number of things to do over the coming weeks:

• Obtain the school district's preliminary traffic study for the area (Done! It's 68 pages and a 28 meg PDF file. If you'd like it burned onto a CD for your enjoyment, let me know. There are also several paper copies floating around.) Determine what the school's impact will have on the neighborhood, and prepare a rebuttle (see below).
• Find out what the process is for the traffic study to become official. Find out how to rebut it.
• Advise the city/school district that the construction traffic should use the southern section of 136th Ave (which is failing) for the bulk of the construction traffic to save wear & tear on 135th Ave.
• Ask the school to put in a stub leading east from the school's parking area to connect to the proposed road east of the school.
• Encourage the school to mitigate/discourage traffic from using the bus access road as a shortcut to Mile Post & Coal Creek. Perhaps we can ask the school district NOT to deed over their portion of Project 16 to the city for 5 years or so, or until the other roads in the vicinity can be built.
• Ask the school and the city to restrict parking in the neighborhoods so that school parking doesn't encroach during school events. Encourage them to use their own property (i.e. the ball fields) for overflow traffic.
• etc.

The committee is drafting a rebuttle to the school district's traffic study as well as offering suggestions for the school. To read the current draft (in Word format), Click here (36k)  New 5/24/02

Notice of Application for Elementary School #13 (in Acrobat format), Page 1 (158k),  Page 2 (72k),  Site Plan (222k)

To see a reprint of the article about the new Elementary school by Terra Chapek from the April 12th 2002 Newcastle News (Copyright © Newcastle News and reprinted with Terra's permission), Click here (5k)