Sublette County School District #1 – Pinedale, Wyoming
Site Selection for New Elementary School
Community Meeting held May 28, 2008
Pinedale Elementary Library
7 – 8:00 PM
Doris Woodbury, Superintendent, reviewed the Site Selection Process that began in the Fall of 2007 and continued through Spring of 2008:
- Purchase of property is negotiated privately and not publicly
- Decision on type of school to build
- Development of possible sites – 5 different sites were considered and narrowed to 2
- Both developers of the possible sites made presentations to the Board, Long Range Facility Planning Committee and several administrators.
- Board directed the School District’s attorney to negotiate the purchase of the preferred property.
Sublette County School District announced that it will build the new K-5 Elementary School on a site at the North end of the Bloomfield Subdivision.
Reasons for the Selection of this site were reviewed:
- The school location provides a safe walking and biking atmosphere for students. The Bloomfield development has sidewalks, curbs and gutters and/or pathways along all roadways as well as linking with the town bike paths.
- With the new developments and affordable housing near the school we will have a number students living close by. The Town of Pinedale is expanding in this area.
- The traffic is planned for in advance with roads and access developed specifically for the new school and to handle the volume of traffic. We anticipate over 400 trips to school by individual cars and 20 trips per day for school busses.
- Utilities and infrastructure are planned specifically to meet the needs of the new school.
- Cost per acre was the most reasonable.
- Additional acreage is available for purchase if desired.
- Adequate assurances for completion of infrastructure were negotiated.
- There is the potential for connection to the current campus without entering or crossing the highway.
- The developer was very willing to be flexible, adjust initial designs and drafts of the project and to accommodate the needs of the school district.
- This site allows the district to maintain their Redstone property as a pre 1997 asset.
- This project also allows for the school district to loop the water at their bus barn.
- This site is approved by the School Facilities Commission.
Matt Harbor presented a Power Point on the Bloomfield Subdivision.
Dennis Seipp, District Construction Manager, presented a brief update on the new K-5 Elementary School Building Project.
Comments were heard and questions were answered.
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2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR
Sublette County School District #1
Ahna McKee and Erica David participated in the week-long International Science & Engineering Fair in Atlanta, GA, last week. They both had good interviews with all of their judges (both had over 10 judging sessions) in their categories. As always, there were very challenging projects from with over 1,500 students from 51 countries (this was Nigeria’s first year to send students!). The girls heard Nobel Laureates give advice, scientists describe their years of work, and visited several of Atlanta’s sites.
Erica received the individual prize over all the fair for the Ricoh (paper/printer company) Environmental Sustainable Development Award, awarded to the project focusing on research that develops strategies for sustainable development of natural resources for the future. She has been trying for this award for 3 years with her snow fence and wellpad reclamation research, and was very honored to get it this year! The 2 boys that won the team project for this award was from Denmark, and studied changes to decrease diesel engine emissions engines. This award from Ricoh is $25,000. for each student.
Thank you to the entire district for support of our K-12 science classes and the science fair endeavor 6-12. Science research success certainly doesn’t happen from science alone. We wouldn’t have the success we do with all our science fair students without strong programs in the other curricular areas, help from other teachers and support from administrators. This particular trip was funded by UWyo and BOCES.
Liz David
HS Science teacher
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2007-2008 SCIENCE FAIR
December 12th and 13th, 2007 was this years Science Fair. The awards ceremony was held Thursday December 13, 2007. There were many amazing projects.
The students that placed 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, in each category, went to the 2008 Regional Science Fair held February 07, 2008 in Rock Springs, WY.
The winners are listed in the Middle School Photo Gallery.
MIDDLE SCHOOL PHOTO GALLERY
