PORT TOWNSEND – The Port Townsend School District will give the public the opportunity Thursday to help it map its future – including the recommended closure of Mountain View Elementary School.
The first in a series of community meetings will also discuss how to deal with the district’s old buildings.
“We have to do something with our facilities, because they are aged,” said Schools Superintendent Tom Opstad.
He said the key issue is for the public to determine is whether it wants to renovate the buildings, which could add about 20 years of life to them, or build new ones, which could last for 60 years or more.
Thursday’s meeting begins at 7 p.m. and will take place at Blue Heron Middle School, 3939 San Juan Ave.
Opstad said he will open the town meeting with a PowerPoint slide presentation outlining the four schools in the Port Townsend School District and the problems associated with them.
They are Grant Street Elementary, 1673 Grant St., built in 1956; Mountain View Elementary, 1919 Blaine St., built in 1961; Blue Heron Middle School, 3939 San Juan Ave., built in 1995; and Port Townsend High School, 1500 Van Ness St., built in the early 1900s.
