Like any business, the YMCA looks at where the growth is to see where facilities should be, Madison said. The North River YMCA is located on HIxson Pike, near Dupont Elementary School in Hixson. "They're interested, but no offer's been made." "There has been some discussion," he said. Rick Madison, chief operating officer for the YMCA of Metropolitan Chattanooga, said the school district has expressed interest in the North River YMCA property on Hixson Pike. Lauren White, who's got a kindergartener and a first-grader at Alpine Crest, doesn't want to see the school go away, either. It may be cheaper, but it's not better for the kids." "Bad idea," said Annette Stolpmann, who's got two children in Alpine Crest and two middle-schoolers who recently graduated.
The plan for an 1,100-student elementary school on Hixson Pike wasn't popular with parents who lined up in their vehicles up Monday afternoon to retrieve kids from Alpine Crest Elementary, which has 301 students and is nestled in a residential area in the northeast corner of Red Bank. Large schools can better cater to students' needs, he said, since they're more likely to have full-time physical education and music teachers in class every day as opposed to small schools where such classes are held less frequently. "It's just a move to try to contain operating costs." "It's just far more efficient," Waters said. The three schools to be replaced average 55 years old. School district officials also like large elementary schools, Waters said, since they're more efficient to staff and heat and cool. "If it ceases to be used for a public school, then it would revert to the DuPont heirs," he said. One reason the district wants to build a school on the 13-acre YMCA property, Waters said, is that it's right next door to DuPont Elementary School, which sits on 12 acres that the DuPont family gave to the school district - on the condition that it remain a school in perpetuity. School officials contemplate building an 1,100-student elementary school on Hixson Pike as part of the district's 2011 school facility plan. "If we do enter into negotiations, the price of the pool is not a consideration." "It was something that we needed to get out of the way, if we ever needed to purchase the property," Waters said. Getting the city out of the picture should save the school district about $1 million, if it buys the North River YMCA, Assistant Superintendent Gary Waters said.
That's because, under a recent settlement over unpaid liquor taxes, the city of Chattanooga released its interest in the indoor swimming pool it built a decade ago at the North River YMCA.
#North river elementary school Patch
Our Operations team have been visiting many of our schools and office sites to evaluate the driveways and will be working to patch the surfaces as the weather continues to warm.The Hamilton County School District moved closer to its long-range goal to shut down Alpine Crest, DuPont and Rivermont elementary schools and replace them with a new, supersized elementary school where the Hixson Pike YMCA now stands. Similar to the roadways, our school driveways have also deteriorated this year. When contacted about the driveway, the Chignecto Central Regional Centre for Education provided a response through email, stating, “This has been a terrible winter on our hard surfaces. Hopefully, this will stay in place until it’s repaired.” “Nothing was being done yet, so I thought I’d do something,” he said. As he filled holes, his sons took turns smoothing out gravel with the rake. He took his wheelbarrow and rake to the school and went to work. She was also worried that people trying to avoid the holes could be a danger to children.īecause there was gravel that has been pushed to one area during snow plowing, Arnold decided to put it to good use. “There were quite a few holes so when it’s busy, with people picking up kids, you sometimes have no choice but to go through them.”
“A lot of parents were nervous about driving through, especially those with small cars,” said Brittany. Seeing large potholes in their school driveway, the Stewart family decided to go into action.Īrnold and Brittany, and their sons – Kaden, who is in Grade 4, and Bryson, a Grade 1 student – recently spent an evening filling holes with gravel.
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