School Boards Meet to Discuss Merger Study

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Thu, Feb 09, 2012

MORRISVILLE -- The process of studying whether the Morrisville-Eaton and Hamilton school districts should become one got underway tonight, when the districts' boards of education and superintendents met with the consulting group performing the study in the Morrisville College stadium hospitality room.

Eight residents -- including six from Hamilton -- watched as the group created a list of 31 questions they hope to see answered during the course of the study. They also discussed the creation of community advisory and steering committees.

Board members and superintendents asked and then prioritized questions that fell into the general categories of finances, course offerings, sports and extracurricular activities, transportation, building useage and governance.

Paul Seversky, one of the memebrs of the SES Study Team consulting group, said the community advisory committee will be asked to ask a set of their own questions and rank them as well. Seversky said experiences shows they will ask very similar questions as the ones posed tonight.

That committee of 30 people -- 15 from each district, including one student -- will meet between eight and 10 times in the next several months to create and study the data needed for the study. Their meetings are open to the public and the results of their work will be posted on both districts' websites.

Hamilton residents who want to be considered to be on the advisory committee must fill out an application found online or contact Deb Kirley at 824-6310 by 4 p.m. Feb. 28 to receive an application.

The steering committee is made up of the two superintendents, two members of each school board and the three consultants.

A timeline for the study is being developed.

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