Facility matters are ahead for the USD 251 North Lyon County Board of Education.
The board has a special meeting at 6 pm Wednesday. The foundation of the meeting — pun intended — is a 30-page facility study recently conducted by G Kent Stewart of Manhattan, including enrollment trends, building overviews, maintenance and results from past referendums on new school facilities over the past decade.
Board members will discuss those items, as well as the survey’s recommendations — maintaining the capital outlay levy and considering a new engineering study or follow-up study of the mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems — as well as potential choices for the district’s future, including taking no action, consolidating with a nearby district, building a new high school instead of a new all-encompassing K-12 building, replacing the temporary classrooms at Northern Heights or building a six-room addition to the high school before removing three of the portable classroom units.
The meeting will be at North Lyon County Elementary in Americus.
