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Name: Megan Truong on Jan 26, 2008Comments: A potential elementary school in the immediate Mueller vicinity is of huge importance to our family. With a 15 month old daughter and potentially another one in the near future, we will be looking for a local, community focused elementary school that our children can hopefully walk to from our home in Mueller. Consider that over half of Mueller residents will consist of families with school age children. let's be proactive now before the need is pressing and decisions are rushed!Flag
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Name: Timothy Brummett on Jan 27, 2008Comments: The area need a new school. Not just for the new Mueller residents, not just for the adjacent neighborhoods whose schools will be over run, but also for the new residents who moved into those adjacent neighborhoods attracted by the new Mueller development.Flag
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Name: William Hurst on Jan 27, 2008Comments: Failure to build an elementary school at Mueller amounts to the city shirking a basic responsibility to provide critical infrastructure to all its residents across all its neighborhoods. It is despicably bad planning for 3 reasons: 1) it is irresponsible to add 10,000 people (including thousands of children) to a neighborhood without adding a school; 2) Mueller Elementary has been a basic expectation of planners, developers, residents and neighbors from day one of the Mueller redevelopment process; and 3) the elementary schools in surrounding communities, many already struggling with funding problems and over-crowding, will receive an unmanageable influx of new pupils. I therefore urge that the deletion of Mueller Elementary from the bond proposal be reconsidered.Flag
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Name: Sherri Gengenbach on Jan 27, 2008Comments: I support funding construction of anew elementary in the Mueller development immediately.Flag
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Name: Sherri Gengenbach on Jan 27, 2008Comments: I support funding construction of anew elementary in the Mueller development immediately.Flag
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Name: Jill Thrasher on Jan 27, 2008Comments: We want Mueller to be part of the surrounding community. As many neighborhood schools are almost at capacity, both Mueller and the adjacent neighborhoods need a new school.Flag
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Name: Mary E. Metcalf on Jan 27, 2008Comments: I am a kindergarten teacher at Maplewood Elementary School, and I am also a parent of three current and future Maplewood students. I live in the community surrounding the Mueller development. We at Maplewood are eager to welcome new Mueller families ths year, as we know they will add to the diverse environment of our small neighborhood school. We have expected that our enrollment would indeed swell a bit in the next couple of years before the anticipated Mueller Elementary opened its doors. However, we NEVER anticipated a scenario in which Mueller Elementary was left off the 2008 Bond Package, leaving Maplewood to experience years of severe overcrowding...quite likely doubling our current enrollment of 350 students. If Mueller Elementary is not built until Maplewood is groaning under the weight of 125% enrollment, then our school will have suffered severe damage in the form of over-limit class sizes, a campus jammed with portable buildings, and a lower quality educational experience for all involved. We KNOW that several hundred elementary-aged children will be moving into Mueller in the coming years. There is no doubt about this. It is foolish to wait to build Mueller Elementary, and it is unfair to the Maplewood community as well as those families whose plans for a life at Mueller included a new elementary school equipped to service their children. PLEASE include Mueller Elementary in the 2008 Bond Package!Flag
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Name: Wendy Morgan on Jan 27, 2008Comments: Maplewood Elementary School is our family's home school and while we embrace the Mueller families as they become part of our neighborhood, we know that if the Mueller Elementary School is not on the 2008 bond it will have significant implications for our community school including: + Mueller Elementary wouldnt open any sooner than 2012/13 and Maplewood and Blanton would be asked to to absorb the population growth as Mueller adds residential living space with no real estimate about how many families might be moving in. Each year that Mueller grows, and our own neighborhood turns from homes owned by retired and elderly neighbors to young families with young children, we will acquire more students until we are busting at the seams. That is not good for our campus, our teachers or our students. + Maplewoods Title One funding will be impacted and maybe even lost. The loss of this funding will have a dramatic and negative impact on our ability to serve all of Maplewood's diverse students. + As Mueller residential units are built and new students come to Maplewood our diversity of students will change. Homes range from $280,000 and up right now, so our school will experience a shift in demographics, and the current family mix is what makes Maplewood special and very unique across AISD campuses. My main concern isnt about the initial shift (which would reduce the number of transfer students allowed to enter Maplewood), but when the new school is built for Mueller, how our campus can transition losing a significant population of students at one time. Id like to see AISD talk with us (Maplewood PTA and CAC) about these issues, but haven't heard ONE word from district. We deserve a seat at the table as AISD decides what is best for our neighborhood campus and students. Put Mueller Elementary School on the 2008 Bond; all of our growing communites want to see our children served to the best of AISD's ability and this plan to wait on Mueller Elementary is short sighted and will disrupt a very delicate balance in our community school. Sincerely, Wendy Morgan Maplewood CAC Member Maplewood PTA Wellness Team ChairFlag
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Name: Marshall Morgan on Jan 27, 2008Comments: Put Mueller Elem on the 2008 Bond. Our neighborhood surrounding Mueller is growing FAST and lots more families are moving into Maplewood, which will mean overcrowding before the new school is built. for Mueller This is an important issue. Please meet with Maplewood parents and staff to talk about what is happening on our campus and how this decision could impact us in the long run.Flag
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Name: Betsy Hilton on Jan 28, 2008Comments: Most of the folks we've met have small children. The Mueller Elementary school needs to be started soon - in the next 2 years, so it needs to be in the 2008 bond package.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jan 28, 2008Comments: This school will be sorely needed by the time construction could be completed if started on the next bond election. Blanton and Maplewood elementaries currently would be harmed by the influx of students. Furthermore a commitment was made to the entire Mueller concept from the beginning and the citizens of Austin have anticipated this being a part of the redevelopment. The commitment made by AISD needs to be carried through. I want to encourage the board to put this school in the next package.Flag
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Name: Ellen Butki on Jan 28, 2008Comments: I transferred my daughter from Blanton to Maplewood because I wanted her to be in a smaller school with a diverse population. I have been counting on the construction of the Mueller school to ease the population crunch and provide more options for when my second daughter starts school in 2009. We live in the Windsor Park neighborhood.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jan 28, 2008Comments: We understand AISD has a responsibility to alleviate overcrowding throughout the district, but we ask AISD to be proactive, rather than reactive, when it comes to an elementary school at Mueller.Flag
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Name: Sloan McLain on Jan 28, 2008Comments: Mueller Elementary school must be on the bond in order for Maplewood to remain the student-centered, community school that it is. Otherwise, we might lose our Title 1 funding and increase class size at the same time, two negative effects of not including Mueller Elementary on the bond.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jan 29, 2008Comments: Mueller needs their OWN elementary school. Please do not overcrowd our schools. Quality learning is so important in AISD. Do not overburden our teachers and school administrators - they work amazingly hard with "doable" numbers of students. Maplewood has a wonderful quality of learning as it is - great class sizes, students' individual needs are met, just a great personable school overall. High class numbers and portables cannot be an answer or even a temporary solution - please plan now for a Mueller Elementary.Flag
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