Year One – 2010-2011:

--Maintain individual Kindergarten programs in each district

--Combine Grade 3 with the location being at Elgin

--Combine Grade 4 with the location being at Carson

--Possibly have Grades 1 and 2 as combination rooms in Carson and Elgin for one or two years

            (Not recommended by Principals but willing to do if deemed to be necessary

             by the superintendent and school boards.)

--Name all grades K – 6 “Grant County Elementary” (official name remains Elgin/New

   Leipzig Public School or Roosevelt Public School)

--Name grades 7 & 8 “Grant County Junior High” (official name remains Roosevelt Public

   School)

--Reduce the FCS program to ½ (or eliminated) time at the High School

--Combine music programs of both districts into one FTE (full-time equivalent) position

--Likely reconfigure some physical education teaching assignments due to a smaller

   number of elementary classes

--Begin a transformation of both libraries and reconfigure library resources to create 21^st

   century media centers with research-based learning opportunities provided through

   these media centers

--Technology Coordinator at the Carson site – Restructure to more contracted time and

   have any contracted time outside of the school day only at the request of the

   administration

--Begin the process of:

            --Working on combining elementary handbooks into one handbook for both

   districts

--Having one collaborative bargaining team between both districts, working

   towards the goal of one master contract or collaborative bargaining agreement

--Joining forces on development of one board policy handbook adopted by both

   districts

--Establishing the groundwork for one Business Manager for both districts.  The

   ideal situation would be for one central office for both districts, however, reality

   will dictate the feasibility

Year Two – 2011-2012:

--Combine the elementary principal positions into one

--Bring all elementary procedures and processes into complete alignment

--Eliminate up to two high school staff members, again, depending upon   

   events/circumstances leading up to that time, including but not limited to resignations  

   and/or retirements

--Possibly re-evaluate grades K – 2 configuration (see below)

Year Three – 2012-2013:

--Re-evaluate based on the following factors:

            --Student numbers/demographic data

            --Location of Head Start and whether they have a combined program at that point

            --What decisions are made by that date regarding the model for our Junior High

   Program, whether we decide to enter into a Middle School model or what

   configuration that might entail or maintain the Junior High model.  Also what

   decisions are made by neighboring districts with the concepts developed through

   the REPC process

            --The politics involved in the co-op development and expansion