On Nov 23, 2016, at 4:41 PM, Stephen Flisk <[email protected]> wrote: Scott, I did receive your email on Monday and apologize it took several days to respond. Thank you again for our conversation after the board meeting last Tuesday, as I appreciate your continued advocacy and insight. It is clear that you not only want what is best for your daughter but for all of the students at South High School. As requested, I forwarded your questions to Rochelle Cox, Executive Director of Special Education seeking more background on Transitions Plus. Rochelle supervises that program and will likely have that full historical perspective. She will respond in detail after the holiday. Also, I did follow up with our communications department after the board meeting and they have prepared an overview of the HCYSG application and tentative timeline. They have pushed that out on our MPS website with a link on our Athletics page. To support the school level communication, HCYSG application notices were posted to each of the high school websites, which links the user back to our general website. We will continue to update through the websites, as well as encourage our principals to share updated information. Last week, I met with Principal Ray Aponte and we discussed an internal communication. Lisa Ramirez, South High School Public Relations liaison had been working on a school communication earlier this week. I will check with Principal Aponte on the status of the update. As we discussed briefly last Tuesday, the community engagement at South is tentatively scheduled to begin in February around the field. District staff will be reconvening after the holiday to discuss and I will communicate any changes to the engagement timeline should they occur. We are hoping that our application is successful! Regarding your questions on the Committee of the Whole meeting scheduled for Tuesday, November 29th, I connected with Mark Bollinger, Deputy Chief of Operations on this and you additional questions. Mark will be presenting on the Acceleration 20/20 Strategic Plan, specifically Goal #6 which will be focused on the Capital Plan planning processes (1+5). My apologies for the confusion you encountered on the website, I have passed that on. There is no plan to discuss the ABE/Transitions + project during his presentation. There is no contract with a General Contractor for the project but Mark shared that he will be considering a 'Best Value' contract, which may be forwarded for consideration by the board in February or March. However, there is a contract with an architect that was approved last spring for the design of the ABE/ Transitions + site. The ABE/Transitions Plus project is the largest capital project for fiscal year 2017 at $29.0 M; Henry HS is budgeted at $28.73M. Finally, Mark shared that Superintendent Graff is supporting the development of a robust Capital Planning Process that will assess the needs of the District. This is all the information that I have at this point. I hope it was helpful in answering some of your questions. Possibly we can connect in the next week or two depending on your schedule. Have a great Thanksgiving. Stephen Flisk, Deputy Chief of Schools
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