Wicked Local
EASTON – When the Blanche A. Ames Elementary School opens in January 2023, a large ramp will curve from the spacious cafeteria to the second floor, and along it will be a colorful, interactive timeline of Ames’ life geared to young learners, thanks to a group of Oliver Ames High School students.
The timeline, designed like a children’s museum exhibit with hands-on activities, questions and pictures, was created by the project architect Perkins Eastman, working with six past and present OAHS students.
The firm reached out to the school district last year to see if students were interested in providing input to the project, especially because the new $94.8 million early elementary school will be on the same campus as the other schools, said Dawn Guarriello, designer and project architect for Perkins Eastman.
that you can spread things down into subcommittees or volunteers or other organizations but i think my key initiative, the thing i would other than outreach and education and everything else i would focus on making meetings and the committee much more efficient. i have that background. i am a process and procedures geek. that s what i do. i don t like to hear people say, well, we ve never done it this way or this is how we always do it. no, you have to that said, i think you have to stay within we have city charters, we have the constitution for a reason. you have to stay within the rules of the game. i keep hearing supervisor kim and campos and farrell saying, well, you change the rules and you ve changed the voting you know, that s almost a red herring. i m looking at the deeper level of that is ok, you had to change the rules because you didn t have enough people showing up. that s the symptom. let s look at the cause. why aren t people coming to meetings? there
i am a process and procedures geek. that s what i do. i don t like to hear people say, well, we ve never done it this way or this is how we always do it. no, you have to that said, i think you have to stay within we have city charters, we have the constitution for a reason. you have to stay within the rules of the game. i keep hearing supervisor kim and campos and farrell saying, well, you change the rules and you ve changed the voting you know, that s almost a red herring. i m looking at the deeper level of that is ok, you had to change the rules because you didn t have enough people showing up. that s the symptom. let s look at the cause. why aren t people coming to meetings? there s 23 people on this list that want to be on this committee. if you can t get a quorum of people to show up and i will add when i went to the meeting on may 2 that was called at 4:00, it didn t start until 5:20 because there was not a quorum. so let s get people that are active and want to p