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School construction making ground in Eagan
By BRENDA GUDERIAN
On the "fast track" plan note
everything gets done in order.
Monday's groundbreaking for
Dakota Hills Middle School and
Eagan High School was an exam'
pie of that plan. While golden gg
spades dug into the ground in
front of the site, bulldozers work
ed on the grading for the L s• I x °
building's footprint and parking
lot and excavation of a basement.
School District 196 has used the
"fast track" plan to begin the ac-
tual construction of the building
set to open in fall 1989, while com-
pleting on paper the final ar
chitects' plans for academic
areas.
Design development, being
worked on by the architectural firm Hammel Green and Abra
hamson Inc., and teachers and : • = , w
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administrators, will be presented
to the Board of Education at a
workshop Dec. 21. At that time Photo by Brenda Guderian
cost estimates will also be finaliz-
ed. The board will try to approve JOINING IN on the groundbreaking ceremony for the Margaret Gohman and Kathy Berquist: Tom Wilson,
those decisions Jan. 11. Dakota Hills Middle School and Eagan High School principal on special assignment; Eagan City Council
What remains on the plan is
were school board members Bob Schutte, Don Member Ted Wachter, Eagan City Administrator Tom
specifying the bids, finishing the
footprints of the foundation, pur- Westerhausen, Betty Fedde, Bill Smith, Donn Hedges; Director of Secondary Education John lomquist;
H
Eagan City
196 chasing the steel dt for acMal n Member om Egan, sBch of board members nd E ganPublic Woks DirectordTm Colbertwaldt:
constru ruction, plann May Council
1988 to August 1989.
Working on the actual school is
only part of the other plans need-
ed to be made. With the addition To keep parents and others in emotional for some parents and have been decided, the school is 24,378 students by the year 2000.
of three new schools in the dist- District 196 aware of what is go- students. "Part of it (the not necessarily "finished." The "We're already ahead of
rict in the next three years ing on, the Parents-Teachers meeting) is letting people know design allows for an expansion of schedule by about a year," said
(Woodland Elementary is sched- Association will be hosting Tom that their tax dollars are being space to fill the needs of 2,000 Anne Voels, District 196
com-
uled to open next fall), boundary Wilson as its speaker at the Dec. well-used," he said. The meeting students in the high school. Cur- munications specialist. That
lines will have to be redrawn to 15 meeting. Wilson, District 196's will be 7:30 p.m. in Northview rently, the schools will serve 1,200 admeans ded. about 1,000
students, she
show which children will go to principal on special assignment, Elementary, 800 Co. Rd. 30, students each.
which schools. That issue will be said he plans to discuss the three Eagan. The extra space may be needed The project is special in being
d`.scussed in a series of meetings new schools, and boundary op- Even when the schools are if trends continue. The district the first high school to be
built in
in January. tions, an issue he said could be completed and the boundaries had projected an enrollment of Minnesota in 10 years, Voels said.