POTTSTOWN PA – The plan to install a series of modular classrooms to house students from Ringing Rocks Elementary School over the next two years, during which the building would be renovated and expanded, will be publicly introduced tonight (Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010) in a 7:30 meeting of the Pottsgrove School District Board of School Directors at Ringing Rocks, 1401 Kauffman Rd., Pottstown PA.

Front entrance at Ringing Rocks Elementary School.

This event has been added to The Post calendar.

Directors said they have cleared their agenda of all other business, and intend to focus their energies on the public discussion, if any, concerning their tentative plan to relocate students to temporary facilities at the Pottsgrove Middle School campus, 1351 N. Hanover St., Pottstown.

A great deal of discussion is apparently expected. On its district calendar, Pottsgrove took the unusual step of budgeting 2-1/2 hours – until 10 p.m. – for the board meeting; a typical session usually lasts between 60 and 90 minutes.

In a Feb. 1 (2010) letter to Ringing Rocks‘ families, district Superintendent Dr. Bradley Landis described the use of modular classrooms as the “most cost effective choice at this time,” compared to proposals to keep students at Ringing while construction occurs around them, or to lease the soon-to-be-vacated St. Pius X High School on North Keim Street, Pottstown.

During the meeting the district’s architects, Gilbert Architects Inc. of Lancaster PA, will provide and update on the project’s scope, design and time-line.

Related (to Ringing Rocks Elementary School renovations):

• In The Ringing Rebuild, Whither Pius?
• Ringing Rocks Relocation Plan: Modulars At MS
• Ringing Rocks Construction Cost Hearing Tonight
• Planners OK Ringing Rocks Land Sketch
• District Sets Dec. 3 Hearing On Rocks Budget
• Pottsgrove Asks State Help To Pay For Ringing Re-Build
• As School Opens, Progress On Ringing Rocks’ Project
• Surprise Enrollment Spurs Demographic Interest
• District Assembles Ringing Rocks Planning Team
• District OKs Architect Negotiations
• Consensus On Ringing Renovations: $16M
• Ringing Rocks Proposals Aired Tuesday
• Ringing Rocks Re-Examined April 14
• Pottsgrove To Trust-But-Verify On Ringing Plans
• Ringing Rocks Plans Take Another Step
• No Shortage Of Ideas At Pottsgrove Meeting
• Weigh In On Pottsgrove Renovations
• Framing The Rocks Discussion
• Response Mixed To Pottsgrove Improvements
• District Invites Public For Study Results
• A Different Rocks, But Only As A Concept

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