Comments on: Superintendent Recommends Moving CSD Central Office to Beacon Hill http://www.decaturmetro.com/2012/07/04/superintendent-recommends-moving-csd-central-office-to-beacon-hill/ Decatur Georgia News, Events, Atlanta News Tue, 16 Sep 2014 04:07:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: Can We Talk? http://www.decaturmetro.com/2012/07/04/superintendent-recommends-moving-csd-central-office-to-beacon-hill/#comment-248773 Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:49:59 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=23872#comment-248773 Thanks for posting this.
This effort from January would appear to confirm the case for increased enrollments, especially when viewed on slide 7 for the upcoming years in the middle and high school.
Rolling the 4 year cohorts together for DHS along with a 3 year cohort for Renfroe suggests an increased enrollment for those schools of between 3-400 students each by 2022 at an annual average rate of about 5% per year. (that is, if everyone who starts also finishes within the system.)
Looking at the primary grades there is still work to be done. The graph on slide 3 shows that enrollment increases seem to last 4-6 years or so before falling again.Though this time it is lasting longer.
The recommendations from the study agree that they need to,”…Develop an annual process involving stakeholders to validate enrollment projection formula with other data sources…”
and also add realtors and website tracking.
This is because their primary data remains current enrollment numbers, wait lists and home building/census data as their primary sources.These are backward looking numbers.

Which still leads us back to, yes Westchester is needed as a school building, and how much does the community need to spend to relocate the central offices to do it?
Summarized from the supt’s. press release.
1. $6 million to Beacon Hill (supt. recc.)
2. $4.5 million to DHS- (given growth projections prob. not a good choice)
3. Lease/Rent Inside city limits $500k/month vs. $1.65million Gen. Admin & Central Svcs. budget with no information on net effect of this choice on the operating budget.
4. “Considerably cheaper” to lease/build outside city limits- but no information on where or how much.(buying land & building allows the use of SPLOST)

Decatur has become an expensive place to build/refurbish office space. I think it is still incumbent on citizens and the board to be prudent with tax dollars and make sure we spend them as smartly as possible.
To me, that means if locating just outside the city limits can save $1-2 million, we should look very hard at it.

]]> By: nelliebelle1197 http://www.decaturmetro.com/2012/07/04/superintendent-recommends-moving-csd-central-office-to-beacon-hill/#comment-248476 Mon, 09 Jul 2012 02:23:26 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=23872#comment-248476 I have seen his hair and I am awed

]]> By: Teach http://www.decaturmetro.com/2012/07/04/superintendent-recommends-moving-csd-central-office-to-beacon-hill/#comment-248448 Mon, 09 Jul 2012 01:07:21 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=23872#comment-248448 -That reply was meant as a response to Tom Stubbs

]]> By: Teach http://www.decaturmetro.com/2012/07/04/superintendent-recommends-moving-csd-central-office-to-beacon-hill/#comment-248433 Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:21:42 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=23872#comment-248433 I agree. The CSD administrators honestly make a difference in my professional success, especially Thomas Van Soelen. We are fortunate to have competent administrators and they deserve to have offices that are commensurate with that of other professionals.

]]> By: J_T http://www.decaturmetro.com/2012/07/04/superintendent-recommends-moving-csd-central-office-to-beacon-hill/#comment-247409 Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:31:57 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=23872#comment-247409 That may be so. But let’s be clear that this is about his legal skills only. I mean, have you seen his hair?

Tom, I’m joking :-) I may have to refer some folks to you, so please don’t hold my snark against them!

See, this is why I really need a new, anonymous account…

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