MINUTES A Community Vision for Schenley High School Community Meeting 3 25 July 2012 Consultant Report: Review Final Concepts
Building on the test-fit (space capacity) analyses and comments from the first two community meetings, plus additional input received via OPDCʼs project website, an outline of key elements of the final report was presented. The following lists represents proposed content for the final report and ideas and comments from participants of Community Meeting 3, held at UCP, 4638 Centre Avenue on July 25, 2012.
PROPOSED FINAL REPORT CONTENTS Scope and Goals of the Report Norman Cleary, head of the studyʼs steering committee, responded to some concerns that the final report might be misconstrued by the school board to be an endorsement of only non-educational reuses for Schenley. He clarified the following: •
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The working assumption at this time is that the school board intends to sell the building. Therefore, the charter for the visioning process, as funded by Councilman Bill Peduto, is to explore the feasibility of reuse options that the community will support. While there is a strong, vocal component within the community that wants Schenley to be reused as a public school, the work needed to explicitly advance that argument is beyond the charter of the steering committee and this visioning process. However, the report will reflect that there is substantial community interest in reuse as a public school. Additionally, the report will provide space for differing and/or alternate opinions and to further make a case for reusing Schenley as a public school. Lastly, some audience members pointed out that “there are many communities represented” in the visioning process, with varying degrees of support for having a school be the priority reuse option.
Recent History The final report will provide an overview of recent decisions (2007-present) affecting the closure and disposition of the building.