HomeMy WebLinkAbout12-11-17 Public Comment - A. Willett, School Board Chair (on behalf of the Board of Trustees) - Response to Master plan for traffic at BHSFrom:Andy Willett
To:Richard Lund; trustees@bsd7.org
Cc:facilities@bsd7.org; Courtney Johnson; Agenda
Subject:RE: Master plan for traffic at BHS
Date:Monday, December 11, 2017 12:09:40 PM
Mr. Lund:
On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I would like to thank you for your email. The Board will be
discussing the renovations at Bozeman High School as well as the traffic issues at our next Board
meeting, Dec 14 at noon. One correction to your assumption, a proposed option is to rebuild the
stadium in a different location, not to build a 2nd stadium. Under that option, the current stadium
bleachers would be removed and the existing track and field would be used for health enhancement
classes, practice and small meets and games.
Take care,
Andy Willett
School Board Chair
From: trustees@bsd7.org [mailto:trustees@bsd7.org] On Behalf Of Richard Lund
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2017 4:51 PM
To: trustees@bsd7.org
Cc: facilities@bsd7.org; CEjohnson@bozeman.net; agenda@bozeman.net
Subject: Master plan for traffic at BHS
To Bozeman School District Trustees — From Richard E Lund, 319 N th Ave , Dec 10, 2017
There now seems to be four new additions proposed that will be affecting auto, bus and
“people” traffic flow exterior to the BHS building — noted as an auditorium, a student pickup
and drop off area, a student commons and now a new football stadium north of the softball
fields. It would seem wiser, safer and cheaper to me to develop a comprehensive master plan
to handle the people-vehicle traffic before even thinking about quickly laying artificial turf in
coordination with such at the new highschool and at MSU (I refer to the Dec 2 article in the
Boz Chron).
My house and driveway is immediately across the street from the north exit of the western
parking lot (319 N 15th Ave). I see the daily traffic problems, morning and afternoons, on
ordinary school days. Its my mail box that gets taken out from “too-zoomy” students. And
then on track meets, ball games and music events, the big diesel busses add to the car and
walking traffic. I can only imagine the similar problems the school neighbors on the east side
are facing.