Feasibility Update

On May 24, 2011, the County Council approved the county’s Fiscal Year 2012 budget. Funding for a feasibility study/design plan for RKE was included within the Board of Education’s FY 2012 capital budget. A feasibility study committee will meet over the summer months and determine which of five options they will recommend to the superintendent to improve RKE’s physical plant. These five options are:

1. Do nothing
2. Patch and paint
3. Lightly renovate
4. Modernization
5. Replacement school

Once the superintendent receives the committee’s recommendation, he can either accept that recommendation or choose a different option to present to the Board of Education for their approval. The Board of Education can then accept the superintendent’s recommended proposal or approve a different option. Currently, RKE is not scheduled to receive construction funding until FY 2014.

As the feasibility study process proceeds, updates will provided.