The agenda for Wednesday's meeting can be found here.
The committe will review a proposal from Alliant Energy to provide the district with a low interest loan to fund energy improvements in the district. The loan is based on Alliant's estimates of savings from the energy efficiency investments made in the Glacial Drumlin School, and can be used to fund some of the energy saving work we hope to do in other buildings. The idea is to make the improvements self-funding, with the utility savings being sufficent to cover the loan payments. At the same time the committee will get an update from the Energy committee concerning proposed capital projects.
Most importantly we will receive and review the results of the 2007-8 budget year financial audit.
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What is the update on the Facilities committee? Why haven't we seen any progress?
Please advise.
thanks.
Peter probably won't mind if I chime in here.
The committee was scheduled to meet last week Tuesday -- the day of the big snowstorm. So it was cancelled (as were all other school activities), and -- given the press of a lot of school-related activities in December (other board meetings, lots of school events such as concerts), Craig G. thought it best to wait until January to hold the next meeting (Jan. 6th at Glacial Drumlin -- agenda and supporting material on home page of MGSD website.)
Is this Peter's blog, or Phil's?
Where has Peter gone?
catching rabbits?
Say-wait a minute if he is gone than...we are alone and if we are alone than...well...we can post what we want...and be all mean.
Nope, that is not right-it is the Christmas Season
Can't get any meaner than reality! Hard to open that tax bill, feel the hit, and then read the newspaper to see that GD is TOO SMALL.
Can't get any meaner than reality! Hard to open that tax bill, feel the hit, and then read the newspaper to see that GD is TOO SMALL.'
"If this is true I guess everyone drank the kool aid." Howeve, I do not believe it.
I was there. The Kool Aid was purple. It tasted really good that night. But, we all now suffer. Unfortunately. If I pay all this money for that school, and my kid ends up not getting bussed all the way out there......well, I guess that might be okay.
Sorry about the long delay, between the holidays and work I have been a little busy to keep this up to date.
Do not believe everything you read in the paper. Or here. Almost no new houses in CG last year and the same for this year. No more low or no down payment mortgages = No new houses = No new families with little kids = decline in enrollment. It will not be long before we aren't worrying about crowding at Cottage Grove School (not GD school - that school is NOT crowded) but what to do with the empty space both in CG and Monona.
Ah, but you forget that some people who built big fancy houses in CG might be in trouble and foreclosure may be looming. Lots of good deals on the horizon for families with small children. i predict an increase in enrollment. so does the UW Applied Pop lab lady.
You can't get a loan anymore if you don't have a sizeable down payment, so those deals would have to include cash for a down payment!
If the applied population people say it's going to increase then we can sure count that it won't. They have been about as accurate as a ouija board. They certainly did not predict the magnitude of the decrease that happenened in Monona, did they?
The average of the APL projections for 2008 from 2004 (oldest I have) only have an error of about 2%. Projections from more recent years are more accurate - as you would expect.
UW APLab couldn't predict the decrease in Monona because they don't take into account declining test scores and political issues.
And, btw, the credit unions are advertising 10% down, no PMI. Pretty good deal, not too sizeable of a chunk.
And, as soon as the market turns, there are over 600 lots platted and approved in CG. Check it out! All you have to do is read the town and village meeting minutes. Stay tuned.
But Student population in Monona has INCREASED, not decreased.
To clarify, student population took a HUGE dive, and then increased last year. Wait and see if the increase can be sustained.
Well of course they are accuarate over recent years. Things usually don't change that fast. But population projections are very bad at predicting the long term trends because their models do not factor in things like greedy Wall Street SOBs sending our economy into downward oblvion.
Regardless, you don't need to pay population projection "experts" to tell you that the abrupt halt of residential construciton in Cottage Grove is likely to yield a decline in enrollment down the road. It will be the same as when families of the large Monona classes aged and those people stayed in their homes as their children grew up. All of those Cottage Grove families with little kids are not going to move away when the kids enter middle and high school and then leave the nest. With no new homes going up to bring in new families the turnover in existing homes will not sustain their elementary enrollment just like turnover did not sustain Monona enrollment. Relying on the population projections without using any common sense or past experience to temper them is dangerous. As an above poster said, there are factors that are not used in the population models. (although I am not aware our test scores are declining, are they?)
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