Diligent approach points to voting for Cemetery Road

TO THE EDITOR:

Last December, our community chose to make a significant investment in our local schools by voting to build a new high school and to upgrade the existing high school for an expanded middle school. Appropriately, due to the costs involved, that decision came after much citizen input and deliberation.

Now we have another decision to make. Next Monday evening, we have an opportunity to choose to build the new school on Cemetery Road.

I believe this is the appropriate site. Our school board has diligently pursued the land exchange with UW-RF because of the benefits that the Cemetery Road site will have for the community. The utility costs of this site are significantly lower than those of the Mann Valley site. (I'd rather invest in learning than in underground pipes.)

Cemetery Road is closer to the core of the community, making it potentially more accessible for walking students, and it is also closer to the resources of the university and the new technical college.

The university, one of our most important community assets, will also benefit from the land exchange. Our legislature has already appropriated funds for an expanded dairy operation, and the acreage gained in Mann Valley will help that facility and its students thrive.

Please turn out next week to say yes to the land exchange between UW-RF and the School District. Vote to build the new high school on the Cemetery Road site.

Turn out to support all the efforts of the volunteer site selection committees, the school board, and others who have worked hard to make this exchange possible.

Pamela Thurow

town of Clifton