Long-awaited ACSD facilities plan is out

The Addison Central School District board on Monday got its first look at a first-ever facilities master plan that provides an inventory of all ACSD buildings and their repair needs.

BRISTOL — The Mount Abraham Unified School District board has a full summer’s worth of work ahead of it.The school board has received five community-authored proposals for solving the district’s facilities and financial challenges, and hired education con … (read more)

BRISTOL — Fifty days, it turns out, was not enough time for the Mount Abraham Unified School District board to come to a decision about Superintendent Patrick Reen’s long-range facilities plan, which he unveiled on Dec. 7. The school board had originally … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — The Addison Central School District has resumed long-range planning for its Middlebury-area buildings, only this time officials will be focusing on how the ACSD might reduce its complement of elementary schools from the current seven, to just … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — The Addison Central School District board on Monday pressed “pause” on a facilities master planning process that could ultimately lead to the closure/consolidation of one or more of the ACSD’s seven elementary schools. The board made its deci … (read more)

I attended the Jan. 27 ACSD Facilities Master Plan meeting at the MUHS auditorium. I was truly disappointed with the turnout. I expected the room to be standing room only with concerned taxpayers from the seven affected communities. If there was 30-40% oc … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — A commissioned architect on Monday gave Addison Central School District officials a lot of food for thought as they decide how to deploy taxpayers’ limited resources in tackling aging school buildings serving an ever-decreasing number of stud … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — Addison Central School District officials are hoping for a great turnout at a Monday, Jan. 27, meeting at which they will explain a consultant’s findings that ACSD’s seven elementary schools need a combined $16.2 million in repairs. The offic … (read more)

With so much attention in the pages of the Addison Independent paid to the challenges that the school systems of Addison County are facing in light of declining enrollment, building needs and other factors, it seemed an opportune time to provide an update … (read more)