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From YouTube: County Board Wrap-Up: March 2017 Stratford School
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Excerpt from the March edition of County Board Wrap-Up featuring Board Chair Jay Fisette's discussion of the historic Stratford School
A
B
B
Well,
I
think
the
schools
have
grow
enrollment,
so
they
have
been
undertaking
a
very
significant
growth
plan.
Their
capital
plan
over
the
next
10
years
really
covers
the
projected
growth
over
the
next
10
years,
and
last
month
we
dealt
with
the
wilson
school
that
school
in
rosslyn
will
become.
The
new
home
of
HP
would
love
that
opens
up
the
current
HP
Woodlawn,
building
the
Stratford
building
the
old
historic
Stratford
building
to
become
a
neighborhood
middle
school
and
we'll
be
adding
an
addition.
B
Really
turned
out
to
be
a
it's
going
to
be
a
lovely
building.
The
addition
will
be
about
300
new
seats.
Most
of
the
kids
going
to
this
school
are
going
to
be
within
the
walk,
shed
area
and
that's
what
a
neighborhood
school
is.
So
many
of
them
will
be
able
to
walk
bike
and
get
to
school
without
getting
in
a
car,
and
the
the
historic
I
think
I'll
riri
emphasize
the
importance
of
that.
It
helped
guide
where
that
addition
went
because
the
integration
issue
the
in
Virginia.
B
This
was
the
first
school
to
be
integrated
in
the
Commonwealth,
and
it
has
a
very
important
place
in
history
so
that,
where
that
addition
went
and
how
it
was
designed,
how
it
sort
of
reflected
or
complemented
the
existing
school
building
was
very
important
in
this
process,
and
we
really
applaud
the
schools
for
doing
a
good
job.
Students.
A
B
A
B
A
big
challenge
for
the
community
I
mean
where
I
say
this
all
the
time
we're
victims
of
our
own
success.
The
schools
are
so
good
that
as
new
new
folks
come
to
the
county
and
some
are
drawn
to
the
county
because
of
our
public
school
system,
we
have
to
meet
the
needs,
and-
and
we
are
one
of
our
biggest
challenges-
is
land
and
we
learn.
B
We
know
that
we
learned
it
to
the
community
facility
study,
so
we're
looking
to
build
up
we're
looking
to
build
under
we're
looking
to
build
over
we're
looking
to
do
joint
facilities.
We
have
not
had
a
school
building
built
in
decades
that
it's
only
a
school
building.
All
of
them
are
open
to
the
community
for
a
variety
of
meetings,
whether
its
use
of
the
gym
or
the
theater
or
meeting
space
for
the
community.
A
B
Month,
we're
taking
up
another
one,
so
we
had
three
in
a
row
we
had
Wilson
School
in
February.
In
March
we
had
the
Stratford
middle
school,
and
next
month
we
will
take
up
a
use,
permit
request
for
a
new
brand
new
school
TJ
elementary
school
on
the
campus
of
the
existing
Thomas
Jefferson
middle
school,
and
that
one
has
gone
through
a
broad
community
process.
I
think
there's
a
lot
of
consensus
as
we
understand
it,
working
toward
the
board
for
the
she's
permit,
but
that
will
be
a
brand
new
school.
B
A
B
You
know
its
collaboration
honestly,
there
are
very
few
communities
in
which
the
school
system,
which
is
separately
elected
in
the
county
or
city
work
nearly
as
collaboratively
as
we
do
we're
forced
into
it,
partly
because
of
limited
land.
It's
all
public
land,
so
we
have
to
make
the
best
use
of
it.
But
we
also
have
such
a
common
set
of
values
and
goals
here,
everyone,
whether
you
have
kids
in
the
school
system
or
not,
values,
public
education,
I
mean
only
fifteen
percent
or
so
of
our
adults,
have
kids
in
the
public
school
system.
B
Maybe
sixteen
seventeen
percent
now,
but
all
the
rest
still
understand
the
value
of
investing
in
public
education,
because
that
is
the
future,
whether
it's
your
kids
or
someone
else's
kids.
So
we
work
really
hard
at
it
and
that's
why
every
one
of
these
buildings
have
to
have
multiple
purposes
and
uses
to
be
able
to
sort
of
justify
that
investment,
but
also
take
advantage
of
limited
land
resources.
It's.