SAUGATUCK, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – The results are in for Saugatuck Public Schools’ Bond Follow-up Survey, but what officials will do with it remains to be seen.
Conducted through last Friday evening, the Lakeshore district wanted to take the public’s pulse after a 50.7 million-dollar bond proposal, mainly to renovate Douglas Elementary School and the Saugatuck Middle/Senior High School buildings, went down to defeat in the May 7th election. According to Dr. Tim Travis, Saugatuck’s first-year superintendent, about 350 persons responded to the questionnaire, some providing extended responses.
Although he went over the initial results of the survey with GMB Architecture and Engineering, who helped design the initial building expansion plan with the district, Dr. Travis wouldn’t publicly go into specifics, other than to say that, “An overwhelming majority of the respondents thought that we should come back and bring a different plan to continue to meet the needs for our facilities in the future. They thought that we should do our due diligence, rework the plan, and come back with something different, probably next spring. That part, in itself, was very encouraging.”
Dr. Travis added that, after a full analysis of the survey results, the next step, “is to share that with the Board of Education and with the (district’s) Facilities Planning Committee to help us to make decisions moving forward.”
