Trustees Create Long Range Facilities Planning Committee
A newly created Long Range Facilities Planning Committee will meet five times between June and August to analyze long term elementary grade level building needs in the Huntington School District and study possible solutions to any space shortage.
Huntington School Board members voted 4-3 on June 7 to create the committee, with trustees Elizabeth Black, Richard McGrath and John P. Paci III casting the dissenting votes.
The committee is scheduled to meet on Tuesday, June 15, July 13, July 27, August 10 and August 24 in Cafeteria “A” at Huntington High School from 7-9 p.m. The meetings are open to the public.
The committee’s voting members will consist of central office administrators, district principals and faculty and PTA/parent representatives. There will also be several at-large community members on the panel.
The district’s architect, Roger Smith of Burton Behrendt Smith, an architectural and engineering firm based in Patchogue, will act as the committee’s non-voting facilitator.
Additional non-voting members of the committee include the district’s director of facilities and director of interscholastic athletics, two trustees and three other BBS architects/engineers.
The committee is charged with analyzing the district’s long term elementary level facilities needs and possible solutions, “including discussions of availability, functionality and [the] costs of various building options.” The committee will consider existing, previously owned and potentially new school buildings, along with additions and alterations as possible solutions to a shortage of space.
The four-member Huntington School Board majority that created the committee asked that it “ascertain the option with the highest potential level of support that also meets the needs of the Huntington School District.”
Some of the previously owned structures that once served as schools and are still standing include Robert K. Toaz Junior High School (Touro Law School/Good News Church), Village Green School (Town of Huntington/John J. Flanagan Activity Center), Nathan Hale School (private owned condominiums within the original school building), Lincoln Elementary School (privately owned apartments within the original school building), Huntington High School-Robert L. Simpson High School/Junior High School and Main Street School (Town Hall).
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