LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Clark County School District officials traveled up to Mt. Charleston to share options for saving the community’s only elementary school, as concerned parents and community members plead for solutions days before the school year.
Interim Superintendent Brenda Larsen-Mitchell, Trustees Lisa Guzman and Lisa Satory and other school officials presented options to parents and community members– who had heated responses.
“It took you guys a year to get up here to face us. I don’t understand how this is okay,” said parent Monique Sweeney, who pulled her son out of school due to the challenges with the commute.
Last August, storms damaged Lundy Elementary and CCSD temporarily assigned students to Indian Springs Elementary. Parents tell FOX5, their school children are picked up at 6:15 a.m. to be taken to school for an 8 a.m. start time.
CCSD officials told community members that repairs to Lundy Elementary could cost upwards of $6.5 million, and any return to the facility would take two to three years.
Officials said they were searching for other temporary or permanent solutions on the mountain, which could include classes at the local library. A permanent and less costly solution than a return to the old building could include the construction of a permanent addition to the library.
“We’re looking at everything, considering all options, both temporary and permanent. And then we’ll come back, we’ll take that information as we have gathered it at the direction of the trustees, bring it back and present that to them at a future board meeting,” said CCSD director of communications Tod Story.
CCSD Board of Trustees have a work session Wednesday to discuss the future of Lundy Elementary.
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