Unit 4 Transition Building

The News-Gazette highlighted a building purchase the district made without public input. The decision sounds above board, but any time decisions are made without enough sunlight, somebody is bound to find a flashlight. Excerpts from the News-Gazette, with flashlights:

Quietly, Unit 4 expands
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But the district’s $3.4 million pending purchase of an office building at 502 W. Windsor Road didn’t merit the same kind of process, Unit 4 officials told The News-Gazette.

School board members signed off on the purchase without comment at the tail end of their Feb. 12 meeting. It was the ninth of 10 items on the “new/unfinished business” portion of the board’s agenda — referenced as “approval of contract by deed — 502 W. Windsor Rd.”
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The need for the purchase, district officials said, stems from the decision to move Dr. Howard Elementary students and staff into the Columbia Center early this summer. While Dr. Howard is torn down and built anew during the 2018-19 and 201920 academic years — part of the six-school, $183.4 million referendum district voters approved in 2016 — students will attend classes at the Columbia Center, at 1103 N. Neil St., displacing the staff currently occupying the building.

“Seventy-five or 80 people currently work there,” Lockman said. “The majority of them will be moving to the Windsor building. Some of them will be moving to the district’s curriculum center building on Hill and Randolph.”

Lockman said the bulk of Columbia-based employees who will move to West Windsor are teaching and learning staff or special education teachers.

Doesn't seem sketchy. But now we know.