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In doing that, the board has been looking at the potential of new buildings.
Monday, the directors looked for classroom space in Buena Vistaâs past as well, hearing from representatives of the Buena Vista Heritage Museum, which was first built as a county courthouse, then used as a school after the county seat moved to Salida.
âIn our first grade and kindergarten classes we have over 25 students in each of those three classes, so weâre at the limit of what we can host now. So over the past year the board has been entertaining different ways we might be able to address that with the goal of not going back to our community to increase tax dollars,â said district superintendent Lisa Yates. âWeâve explored with the Chaffee County Community Foundation, and as we were exploring that, we realized that we were sitting on a property â we have a joint building together â and we wanted to present that to you as an option. We think it would serve a lot o