Building tours are coming soon as USD 251 North Lyon County continues its facility assessment process.
Two tours are coming at Northern Heights High School on Friday, ahead of the football season opener against Burlingame. Several tours, both at Northern Heights and North Lyon County, are tentatively planned throughout the academic year.
Educational consultant Shelly Kiblinger of DCS Services says it conducted a thorough review of district buildings.
Superintendent Bob Blair was grateful for the DCS report as outlined last week. He says this will be useful information as the USD 251 Board of Education continues conversations about current and possible future facilities.
After further review, DCS Services found most aspects in excellent to fair shape. Blair says there are some obvious areas of need, including heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems in general terms as well as the running track and football press box at Northern Heights. Blair says the board also plans to move its regular meetings to different towns in the USD 251 district as a way to bring the discussion to residents.
The district’s Strategic Planning Committee started a deliberate fact-finding process over a year ago after a 30-page study from G Kent Stewart involving enrollment trends, building overviews, maintenance and past public votes, and Blair says that approach will continue through a possible recommendation on facilities at some point in the future.
USD 251 had three different referendums for new K-12, Pre-K or 6-12 buildings between October 2015 and November 2017. All failed by at least 10 percentage points.
