Articles About school facilities

• YS school board — Facilities levy set for ballot

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 23, 2021

  

  After months of incremental steps leading toward the goal of putting a nearly $35.6 million facilities levy on the November ballot, the Yellow Springs school board has taken the final move necessary to place the measure before district voters this fall.

• Email sparks legal concern

  By Carol SimmonsJune 14, 2021

  

  The ground rules for who can support levy campaigns, and when and how they do it, arose this week when a community member questioned the legality of an email forwarded by the Yellow Springs Schools district office.

• YS School Board Facilities Master Planning Community Forums

  By Matt MindeFebruary 16, 2021

  

  Facilities Master Planning Community Forums

• Special Yellow Springs Board of Education meeting

  By YS News StaffDecember 23, 2020

  

  A special Board of Education will be live-streamed Monday, Dec. 18, at 12:30 p.m. on the schools’ YouTube channel.

• Facilities task force sets priorities

  By Carol SimmonsDecember 26, 2019

  

  About 10 months since its first meeting in March, the School Facilities Task Force hosted a community meeting Tuesday, Dec. 10, to share its findings and potential recommendations to the school board and to take questions and feedback from community members.

• Task force to seek community input

  By Carol SimmonsOctober 17, 2019

  

  Meeting regularly since its formation last spring by then-Yellow Springs Superintendent Mario Basora, the schools facilities task force is close to taking its findings out into the community in a series of public meetings, where members plan to share the information they’ve gathered and collect feedback.

• Yellow Springs Schools — Holden addresses facilities

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 18, 2019

  

  The schools facilities task force meeting, Wednesday, July 3, set aside time for incoming Yellow Springs Schools Superintendent Terri Holden to speak about her perspective on the task force’s role.

• YS Schools facilities— New report, familiar concerns

  By Carol SimmonsMay 30, 2019

  

  Local school buildings are in immediate need of upgrades. That was the paraphrased conclusion Wednesday, May 15, when representatives of the architectural engineering firm hired by Yellow Springs Schools to conduct an independent assessment of district facilities presented their findings to a joint meeting of the school board and the recently formed facilities task force.

• School board— Facility visit prompts optimism

  By Carol SimmonsJune 28, 2018

  

  The building structure of the Yellow Springs High School/McKinney Middle School facility appears to be in better condition than school district leaders feared, according to the initial feedback of two structural engineers who toured the school campus Wednesday, June 13.

• Schools analyze levy defeat

  By Carol SimmonsJune 7, 2018

  

  In the wake of the school facilities levy loss May 8, the Yellow Springs School Board met Thursday, May 24, to discuss what the schools’ contracted architect described as a “decisive” defeat, and consider next steps in addressing the needs of the district’s aging buildings.