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Marble – Cherokee County Board of Education members will meet at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 13, for a work session to address facility needs. Action may be taken.
The meeting will be at Central Offices, 2230 Airport Road.
The work session gives the school board time to go over artificial intelligence evaluations of five proposals to consolidate Cherokee County Schools – one each from school board members Steve Coleman, Jeff Tatham and Jason Murphy; and two proposals from hired consultants.
The school board has not discussed a counterproposal from the Cherokee County Board of Commissioners to build a new Murphy High School next to the Schools of Innovation and Tri-County Community College off of U.S. 64 Alternate in Peachtree.
Meanwhile, following a decision to table approval of a permission request to spend up to $75,000 for a feasibility study, the board found a less-expensive workaround. The study would determine whether a 99-acre parcel near Murphy high/middle schools could be suitable for a new campus. The parcel is rugged, with limited access.
The board of commissioners balked at the expense, but at the school board’s May 1 meeting it approved a $15,000 expenditure from sales tax proceeds to fund the evaluation.