{"id":4540,"date":"2014-03-04T22:11:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T05:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=4540"},"modified":"2014-03-04T22:11:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T05:11:59","slug":"change-in-budget-forces-dps-to-consider-new-designs-for-stapleton-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=4540","title":{"rendered":"Change in Budget Forces DPS to Consider New Designs for Stapleton High School"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"OLYMPUS<\/a>Denver Public School officials met with members of the Stapleton community last Tuesday to discuss where things are at in regards to the high school being built in Stapleton. Pretty early into the discussion, officials let community members know that the project was a tad<\/a> over budget. \u201cRight now, I would say our shortfall is a little over $15 million,\u201d said Scott Jackson, one of the DPS officials attending the meeting. \u201cSo, I guess, first things first, anyone have $15 million dollars?\u201d\nCommunity members were outraged. \u201cSo, we passed a bond in 2012 to pay for this thing,\u201d said Allie Miller. \u201cAnd now, one month before groundbreaking, we find out we are $15 million short? How in the hell does that happen?\u201d Miller was not the only person confused. \u201cI own a construction company,\u201d said community member Keith Heller. \u201cI would like to know a lot more about your process. Of course, our company has had budget issues before, but you guys must have a significantly different process in regards to bidding out projects than the rest of the construction world.\u201d\nDPS officials quickly attempted to deflect and diffuse the situation. \u201cBefore we get too far off track, we want to reign everyone back in,\u201d said DPS official David Erickson. \u201cWhat we want to do here today, is look at some other design options that we think will fit the needs of the community.\u201d Erickson then dimmed the lights and began showing a brief slide show of some of the options. Options included some one-room school houses, rural schools fit for less than 500 students, and even a series of giant circus tents.\n\u201cWe feel that any of these options could be tweaked to fit perfectly with the needs of the Stapleton community,\u201d said Erickson. \u201cSo, we want to schedule another meeting the day before the groundbreaking to go over the final plans. This concludes this meeting, and we are looking forward to your feedback at the March 31st meeting.\u201d Community members were less than enthused about how the meeting went and the proposed next steps of DPS. \u201cThis was nuts,\u201d said Victoria Bidler. \u201cThis is not a plan. Something needs to be done. They were just shoving new designs down our throats without asking for any real feedback.\u201d Other community members agreed. \u201cI knew the proposed design was not going to come out exactly as planned,\u201d said Steve Moellering. \u201cBut, we went from 60 to 0 in 1 second here. There has to be something else that can be done.\u201d If something is to be done, it needs to happen very, very quickly.\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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