GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – A consultant’s report identifies hundreds of facility repair and improvement projects for the Green Bay Area Public School District to consider – including a recommendation to tear down one school – as it embarks on a 10-year planning process.
The school district hired ATSR Planners, Architects, and Engineers, which produced hundreds of pages of documents outlining work needing to be done at all of the district’s facilities.
The consultant will make an initial presentation of the plan at 5 p.m. Monday meeting at the school district office, 200 S. Broadway.
Click here to read the overall plan summary.
For each of the schools, ATSR identified repairs and other work which should be completed. The projects are divided into high, medium, and low priority categories. Across the entire district, more than $400 million in projects are outlined for the next decade and beyond.
One of the recommendations is to demolish MacArthur Elementary School, 1331 Hobart Drive. It was built in 1968.
Click here to read the elementary schools summary.
“This building is recommended to be reconstructed – existing building demolished. There are multiple issues that either cannot be corrected, or are cost prohibitive to correct, as well as large educational adequacy issues with existing configurations,” the report states.
As part of the process, a new Citizen Facilities Task Force, which “will be looking at enrollment trends, community demographics, repair/improvement needs of the buildings, boundaries, etc. The Task Force will present a recommendation to the Board of Education in May 2023, which may include boundary changes, school/building closures, school additions, etc.,” according to the district’s website.
Click here to read the middle and high schools summary.
Any recommendations would not be implemented until after the 2023-24 school year, at the earliest.
The panel’s first meeting is at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Baird Elementary School, 539 Laverne Drive.
