Maple Dale
The new Maple Dale Elementary School will house about 500 students in kindergarten through fourth-grade.
. It is being financed with a 0.61-mill bond issue voters approved last November. Maple Dale’s existing gymnasium will be incorporated into the new school because it is newer than the rest of the school, most of which was built in 1959.
. The new district offices are being financed with a certificate of participation paid for with the district’s reserve and partially offset by the future sale of the current district offices on Cooper Road.
. Source: Maple Dale demolition under way. By Jeanne Houck, Community Press. The Enquirer 7/28/11
Mr. Sellers, here is a story idea that will grab the attention of the community.
Indian Hill is considering refurbishing one of its school building, while just last year neighboring Sycamore decided to tear down and rebuild a new Maple Dale school building. The cost of repairs was generally the same in both situations. The story is exploring why both districts, confronted with the same condition, took drastically different decisions.
2/16/11 Resident
9/21/11 John Stillpass lawyer for 6 residents addressed the Blue Ash City Council …. about the new School district Office building being planned for an area zoned residential. Lawyer Chris Finney also addressed the council that night.
Park gets playground
By Kellie Geist-May kmay@communitypress.com
. Milford – Children will be able to enjoy new playground equipment – and the city will be saving $28,000 – thanks to a donation from DER Development.
. DER development of Milford was contracted by Sycamore Community Schools to do some site work at Maple Dale Elementary School for an addition the district is building. As part of the contract, DER was instructed to dismantle and store two sets of playground equipment on the site.
. “The existing playground equipment is in the way of the addition, but they wanted to store them to reuse them later. Then they decided just to keep one set and give us the credit to demolish the other one to save money,” said Oliver Roe, project manager. “We thought it would be a shame to demolish the equipment because it’s only a couple years old and in really good condition.”
. Roe said the retail on a similar piece of equipment would be between $28,000 and $30,000 new. DER contacted the Milford officials to see if they could use the playground set, which includes a climbing wall, multiple slides, a large loop traverse and more.
. “We could have sold it or scrapped it for metal, but we didn’t want to do that, so we naturally thought of Milford,” Roe said. “We are located here in the city and we try to give back whenever we can. We hope we can do more of that when the economy turns around.”
. Milford City Council voted Oct. 18 to authorize Administrator Jeff Wright to contract with a company to dismantle the play ground, inspect it and reinstall it at Garfield Park in South Milford. Wright said Recreations Outlet of Miami Township submitted the lowest estimate of $10,000 for the work. The city also will pay the company $5,000 to build a border for the equipment and fill the area with safety mulch. That money will come from the parks and recreation budget.
. Wright said the equipment should be installed and ready for kids in November.
Note: A picture of the playground was included in this newspaper article.
Source: Milford-Miami ADVERTISER Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Current district enrollment is about 1000 less students than a decade ago.