Wednesday, May 9, 2012
The Cobb County school board voted 4-3 to proceed immediately with the full $14.5 million renovation project.
The full $14.5 million Harrison High School construction project, including the ninth-grade center, will proceed this summer after all. The Cobb County Board of Education voted 4-3 this afternoon to move ahead with the bundled project, reversing a 4-3 decision March 22 to break up the work and postpone the ninth-grade center indefinitely. It was the third time in 15 months that the school board voted on the Harrison project, and the third time the vote was 4-3. The only difference in the votes has been Vice Chairman David Morgan of South Cobb’s Post 3. He joined Lynnda Eagle of West Cobb, David Banks of Northeast and East Cobb, and Scott Sweeney of East Cobb in voting to put the ninth-grade center at Harrison and award the architectural …
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
The Cobb County Board of Education will meet Wednesday to decide the fate of the Harrison project.
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
A new ninth-grade center at Harrison High School that was shot down in March will face a revote during the Cobb County Board of Education's Wednesday morning meeting. The Harrison PTSA and school leadership have rallied the community to lobby for a different outcome regarding the $14.5 million Harrison construction project that would include the ninth-grade academy. The revote comes on the heels of a town-hall meeting with board member Alison Bartlett, who faced her new constituents at Harrison Saturday and defended her decision to vote against the project. Bartlett explained her position to about 100 attendees, saying she was perhaps the most fiscally conservative of the board’s seven members, reported the Marietta Daily Journal. She also…
Thursday, March 22, 2012
The Cobb County Board of Education voted 4-3 to postpone the Ninth Grade Center at Harrison High and rebid the rest of the renovations at the school.
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
The Cobb County Board of Education voted 4-3 tonight to drop the planned Ninth Grade Center from the proposed $14.5 million project at Harrison High and to proceed with the rest of the repairs and renovations. That means the Ninth Grade Center will wait until an unknown time to be built, although this board seemed to agree it should go at Harrison eventually. The rest of the work won't be started this summer because more architectural work and planning will be needed before the project goes back out to bid. Central Cobb's Alison Bartlett made the motion to delay the center, and she was joined in the majority by North Cobb's Kathleen Angelucci, Smyrna's Tim Stultz and South Cobb's David Morgan. You can read the debate in the live blog above…
