{"id":51520,"date":"2020-09-17T16:38:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T22:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-school-board-delays-plan-to-move-schools\/"},"modified":"2020-09-17T22:38:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T22:38:37","slug":"dolores-school-board-delays-plan-to-move-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-school-board-delays-plan-to-move-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolores School Board delays plan to move schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=840b8973-98d7-471e-bff4-270f5c21d59d&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"The Dolores School Board voted to postpone the project of moving the K-12 campus to another location because the project requires a bond and community support, both of which are uncertain with the economic impact of COVID-19.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Dolores School Board voted to postpone the project of moving the K-12 campus to another location because the project requires a bond and community support, both of which are uncertain with the economic impact of COVID-19.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Dolores School Board has postponed seeking grant funding from the Colorado Department of Education to move the K-12 school campus to a new location.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re pausing this whole project,\u201d said Maegan Crowley, chairwoman of the school board. \u201cWe may need to revise the plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The COVID-19 pandemic\u2019s toll on the local economy and state funding remains in doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Originally, the school board planned to apply for a grant from the Building Excellent Schools Today Program under CDE, which provides funding annually to the construction of new schools and renovations of existing schools, for the 2021 school year.<\/p>\n<p>The project would require a bond, which needs to be paid back with interest, so the board decided to put a hold on the project to find out \u201cwhat the local community thinks of the project,\u201d Crowley said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need community support to pass the bond, so we want to see how it would impact the community first,\u201d particularly in light of the economic fallout of COVID-19, Crowley said.<\/p>\n<p>The board began the process of selecting a location before the start of the pandemic, and chose one of three possible properties. Two committees were created to plan long-term for the campus move, though the board emphasized that seeking funding for construction has been paused for the time being because of the economic impact of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to make a decision everyone is comfortable with,\u201d Crowley said.<\/p>\n<p>But the school board is still accepting professionals with experience in design or marketing from the community to serve on the Design Advisory Group and Bond Initiative Committee for the project.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:ehayes@the-journal.com\">ehayes@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project would require a bond<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-51520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51520"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=51520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}