RISON - The Cleveland County School Board will hold a workshop on Nov. 7 to discuss how the district should proceed with its facilities plan after meeting with the Arkansas Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation Commission last month.
Meanwhile, Superintendent Craig Dupuy was given permission to seek appraisals on some property the district owns at the Kingsland campus that could be used for a new Dollar General store there.
Those issues and more were discussed during the Cleveland County School Board’s regular monthly meeting Monday night.
In an interview after the meeting, Dupuy said the district has until Nov. 14 to submit a plan to the state as to how the district intends to respond to its facilities needs following the defeat of a 5-mill tax increase request in August.
Arkansas Code 6-21-811 requires a conference be held between the state facilities board and the school district whenever a millage request to fund projects included in the district’s Master Plan fails to pass. Some of the projects that would have been funded by the 5-mill increase were a new gym, interior renovations to Rison Elementary and expanding the school cafeteria.
While there were no sanctions issued against the school district as a result of the conference, Dupuy said the district must still (continued from page 1) submit a letter by Nov. 14 outlining how it will address its facilities needs. “I just need to see where they are at,” Dupuy said about the Nov. 7 meeting, which he described as a board workshop that will be open to the public.
In the interim, Dupuy said he will check with the district’s architect, Steve Elliott of Little Rock, to get an accurate estimates on how much the proposed projects considered in the last millage request would now cost. Those projects would include a new gym equipped with band and choir rooms, interior renovations to the elementary school, expanded cafeter...
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