When I spoke to Tim
Orr the other day, he said that there was a board meeting at the school
tonight. I believe it’s at 7 o’clock. For sure they will be dealing with that
new wrestling room and storm shelter. They will also be dealing with
reciprocity agreements for allowing busses to cross school boundaries at some point,
but he wasn’t sure if that was going to be tonight or at the next regular meeting. I’ll
go into that reciprocity agreement more later.
Tim told me that he was all for this new storm shelter
and wrestling room, only if we would have kept our school. However, with this
WGS agreement, the odds are that our school building will close in the next ten
years as WGS leads to consolidation. He says, “Why spend the money and put us
in debt when we’ll be closing the school anyhow?” I’m paraphrasing for him, but
I agree with his message. If we’re going to close the school anyhow, why spend
money on upgrades?
I’ll use the example of our school in Wadena again. Look at
it. The old part of the building is in rough shape, but it has a nice kitchen
area and the gymnasium was in pretty good shape when they closed the school.
There it sits rotting. Why spend our tax dollars just so that we can build
something that will sit and rot in ten years?
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