Facilities Steering Forum

The Facilities Steering Forum is an open meeting of community members and staff who are working on a solution to our facilities problems in the Hyde Park Central School District. Meeting dates and locations are listed on the district calendar.

The purpose of the Facilities Steering Forum is to set overall direction for the facilities planning activities and to coordinate the preparation of material for recommendations to the Board of Education. The current state of this activity is reported on the Facilities Planning Page. Anyone is welcome to join the Facilities Steering Forum. Newcomers are encouraged to review the history of the facilities planning to help them come up to speed on the latest activity of the forum.

The Project Team coordinates the activites identified by the Facilities Steering Forum as necessary to accomplish. The members identify the individual tasks necessary for each activities and assign each task to either one of the Facilities Task Groups or to someone in the school district. The members of the Project Team are:

The Publicity Subcommittee is responsible to publicizing all aspects of facility planning, including the scope and severity of the problem being addressed, the need for community involvement in developing a solution for the problem and the proposed solution once it is developed. The members of the Publicity Subcommittee are:

Key Communicators are respected community members who are willing to provide information about the facilities planning to their sphere of contact. These people will be provided with information about the process and its status so that they may share it with others who they may come in contact with during the normal course of their life, work or volunteer activities. If you would like to be a Key Communicator, please contact Ann Fadgen at ann.fadgen@hydeparkschools.org or 229-4001.

The Finance Subcommittee is responsible for determining the financial impact of implementation of the facilities plan on the Hyde Park Central School District community. This involves determining and justifying the required scope of the plan, projecting the anticipated cost and proposing financing. The members of the Finance Subcommittee are:

The Facilities Advisory Subcommittee coordinates the activities of the various Facilities Advisory Task Groups, each of which is responsible for considering a specific aspect of the facilities plan and how it will affect the educational program and operations of the district. The members of the Facilities Advisory Subcommittee are:

The Facilities Advisory Task Groups are listed below.

The current facilities planning direction calls for Fifth Grade to be moved from each elementary school to an intermediate 5-6 school in the current Haviland building and for each elementary school to undergo some rennovation. The Elementary School Task Group is responsible for identifying the issues involved in this move from the elementary perspective and for advising on the rennovation issues. The members of the Elementary School Task Group are:

The current facilities planning direction calls for Fifth Grade to be moved from each elementary school to an intermediate 5-6 school in the current Haviland building. This will require program development and modification to support a 5-6 program as well as building rennovation. The Intermediate School Task Group will provide advice and direction on both of these. The members of the Intermediate School Task Group are:

The current facilities planning direction calls for the current FDR campus to be expanded to house grades 7-12 with facilities for grades 7 and 8 mostly separate from facilities for grades 9-12 but with some shared facilities where appropriate such as for support of the Sciences, Technology and Fine Arts. The Middle/High School Task Group will provide advice and direction on how the indvidual 7-8 and 9-12 education programs can be best supported. They are also expected to identify issues that might arise on the joint campus and suggest ways to deal with them. The members of the Middle/High School Task Group are:

The current facilities planning intends to foster sharing of resources for support of 7-8 and 9-12 where appropriate with science being a key target for such sharing. The Science Task Group will look at the issues and factors involved in such sharing and provide direction on how to address those issues. The members of the Science Task Group are:

The Technology Task Group will address issues related to the use of technology in the educational programs at all levels. Since all buildings will be undergoing some sort of rennovation or construction, this is the optimal time to install the underlying technology infrastructor necessary to facilitate the use of technology in teaching. The members of the Technology Task Group are:

The Fine and Performing Arts Task Group will look at the facilities necessary to support studio art, theatre, music and other fine and performing arts and provide advice and direction related to incorporating those facilities in the plans for construction and rennovation at all buildings. The members of the Fine and Performing Arts Task Group are:

The Athletics Task Group will look at the issues related to supporting athletics for an additional 700 to 800 students at the FDR campus as well as issues related to making the athletics facilities age appropriate at the 5-6 Intermediate school. The members of the Athletics Task Group are:

The Community Use Task Group will consider the needs of the community for available space and facilities and provide direction on how satisfying those needs can be accomplished in a compatible manner with the educational needs of the district. The members of the Community Use Task Group are:

Other issues that need to be addressed but which do not have a separate Task Group yet include the location and upgrade of the transportation compound and the District Office facilities.

The Transportation Task Group will consider expansion and possible relocation of the Transportation Compound. The members of the Transportation Task Group are:

The District Office Task Group will consider issues related to District Office and the current rental of office space for it. The members of the District Office Task Group are:

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