Dunwoody High School CAC Meeting

Tuesday, April 30, 2019 4:00pm

Minutes

Attendance: CAC members – Dave Levy, Randi Siegel, Louise Headland, Kelly Clinch, Pricilla Cole Community member – Bob Fiscella

1.	Welcome
a. Meeting called to order at 4:14 pm
b. Adopted and amended agenda for the meeting via motion c.	Minutes from last meeting were approved

2. Principal’s Report
a. Ms. Cole reported that User Groups are being formed to help guide the input on the best use of the addition/new space in the school. Department chairs will likely seek input from teachers and then attend the User Group meetings.
b. They will likely share their findings with the CAC.

3. New Business/Unfinished Business
a. Randi asked about Stan Jester’s published numbers on his blog regarding funding for our addition vs. Chamblee. Dave says not sure how recent these funding projections are or where he got that info on the blog.
b. Discussion of the construction timeline and why we are scheduled after Chamblee for construction when we are overcrowded and they are not. D. Drake says we are getting our construction after Chamblee due to the expected overflow from Cross Keys.
c.	Kelly asked about who approves the design and when -- the Board will approve the budget in May/June and DCSD Operations will approve the design with CAC input.
d. County still says they will turf our field after construction is finished. Concern expressed about the use of our field for staging during the construction process. We need to be proactive and expect this. Bob suggested working with the city to put pressure on the county to provide practice fields for us.
e. Community response has been positive from CAC’s recent “press release”
f.	Discussion of creating a CAC email to receive community input. Ms. Cole says emails need to come to PAC as CAC is a subcommittee of PAC.
g.	Dave made a motion to amend the agenda to vote on the creation of a letter to our board member stating our needs/expectations/approval for the project. Motion seconded
h. Discussion of sending letter. Motion made and passed in favor of sending the letter to Board President, Dr. Green, Dan Drake, and cc all Board Members.
i.	Dave asked Ms. Cole if the budget for the 41 classrooms we are slated to receive includes a budget for support facilities as well. Louise offered that in her experience as an architect, other school districts calculate a budget based on the number of classrooms not square footage. If this is the case for us, support facilities (i.e. lockers,

office space for more APs and counsellors, etc) will be included in our budget. We will ask about this and make sure we have the support facilities we need in the design.
j.	Dave suggested that the CAC meet with the architect. He will call to set this up. k.	Next meeting: Tuesday, May 21 at 4pm (before PAC)

4. Meeting adjourned at 5:03pm