Re: [LincolnTalk] Community Center- size considerations / location of LEAP

2023-09-29 Thread Joanna Owen Schmergel via Lincoln
Amen Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Friday, September 29, 2023, 3:29 PM, John Mendelson wrote: This thread is about housing LEAP during construction.   To insinuate there is a a real risk to kids "so close to an active construction site, with all the potential for safety hazards as well

Re: [LincolnTalk] Community Center- size considerations / location of LEAP

2023-09-29 Thread Carol Ryan
The question of where Leap will run its program during construction is relevant to the question of why “it would be absurd “ for Leap to share space in our state of the art new school facility in lieu of spending a few more million . No one is questioning the importance of a quality after school pr

Re: [LincolnTalk] Community Center- size considerations / location of LEAP

2023-09-29 Thread Karla Gravis
The planning for the operation of the school during construction was part of the project from early on. The school building committee paid detailed attention to how to keep things running during construction. The students were housed in trailers away from the construction site and those costs were

Re: [LincolnTalk] Community Center- size considerations / location of LEAP

2023-09-29 Thread Sara Mattes
We used trailers. Are you thinking that is what might be done again? It needs to be in the budget that will be determined by the design. Then we can better understand the full cost of each approach. -- Sara Mattes > On Sep 29, 2023, at 3:29 PM, John Mendelson wrote: > > This thread i

Re: [LincolnTalk] Community Center- size considerations / location of LEAP

2023-09-29 Thread John Mendelson
This thread is about housing LEAP during construction. To insinuate there is a a real risk to kids "so close to an active construction site, with all the potential for safety hazards as well as exposure to toxic construction materials" is absurd and demonstrates a complete lack of faith in town ad

Re: [LincolnTalk] Community Center- size considerations / location of LEAP

2023-09-29 Thread Sara Mattes
Andy, This is very important information and I wish it had guided discussions long before we got to where we are today. As LEAP is integral to school programming, it’s location has always been part of the discussion, but we had not heard so directly and definitively that there are serious impli

Re: [LincolnTalk] Community Center- size considerations / location of LEAP

2023-09-29 Thread Carol Ryan
I was an instructor for an after school arts program in Malden. We ran the class in the school art room, messy projects and all sorts of creative work. We set upour projects and cleaned up at the end. It’s not evident why Leap requires a space other than the school facilities.In my experience it is