Facilities 2025 Survey: Seeking Members for New ISD 728 Task Force
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The ISD 728 School Board is looking for community representation on a 2025 Facilities Task Force to develop recommendations for the school board to review. The community task force will consist of up to 40 members from ISD 728 communities and will work in collaboration with the Board and ISD 728 staff to chart the course for classroom spaces, building needs, and more over the next several years.
Over the past 10 years, ISD 728 has consistently engaged in this familiar process with our communities. To best serve our students, families, and residents, the district partners with community members to review how its facilities are used, taking into account student programming needs, state and national standards, building capacity, population trends, and community growth.
The ISD 728 School Board has identified the need to address these top issues:
- Growth in the southern end of the District is nearing building capacity and a long-term plan to address student population growth is needed.
- Community Engagement is highly valued and the District will partner with our community stakeholders.
- The Committee project timeline will run September through December of 2025, with recommendations delivered to the School Board in mid-December.
The ISD 728 School Board has defined the scope of the work for the task force to include:
- Develop no more than three recommendations for solutions to the long-term district-wide building capacity and student growth concerns.
- Recommendations should include school building capacity planning as boundary solutions may be a temporary solution.
- Recommendations must be financially viable and responsible.
An application survey for those who are interested will open on May 19th, 2025, and can be found at ISD728.org/Facilities2025.
The proposed Task Force meetings will be held from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and the dates are as follows:
- Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025
- Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025
- Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025
- Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025
- WEDNESDAY, Oct. 8, 2025 (Conferences Thursday, 10/9/25)
- Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025
- Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025
- Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025
- Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025
- Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025
Thank you to our community members for their investment and involvement in ISD 728, and for what you do for our students and staff each and every day.