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Next Step in Monmouth-Roseville Deficit Reduction Planning Monday Night With Special Meeting
The Monmouth-Roseville School Board and the public will both learn Monday night, in theory, what buildings it could close if it wanted to do so as a way to eliminate a long-standing budget deficit.

The District-238 Board will hold the next in a series of special meetings Monday night on Superintendent Paul Woehlke's efforts to reduce that six-figure budget deficit, where an engineering study will be presented.

Woehlke tells WGIL the study looks at each of the district's elementary and intermediate school buildings, along with the Central Early Childhood Center, to essentially see what each building can handle.

"The goal is to understand what, objectively, is the student capacity in each of those buildings, and what is the likely maintenance cost for maintaining each of those buildings over the next ten years," Woehlke said. "That may help us give us some objective data as we look at the possibility of potentially closing a school."

Woehlke says no one school is being targeted over another, and that the public as well as the school board will all be able to answer questions tonight about the report once it's presented.

He says if the district were to close a school, if that is the route that is chosen, it's possible there will need to be a building with at least 18 classrooms in it capable of holding as many as five sections of any of three grade levels.

The special Monmouth-Roseville Committee of the Whole Meeting starts at 7pm Monday at the Monmouth-Roseville High School Auditorium.
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