After months of surveying community members through a contract with local nonprofit Austin Voices, the Austin ISD board of trustees has learned that many residents want the Allan Elementary School campus to be used for its original purpose—a school.
At the board's Jan. 13 work session, Austin Voices representative Allen Weeks shared feedback collected at three community meetings held in fall 2013. Weeks said he got the sense that community members are not in a rush to use the facility in 2014, but instead they want thorough planning and a solution that will help support academic improvement at schools that feed into Eastside Memorial High School.
"If you just look at the number of comments, I think people wanting [the Allan campus] to go back to the use of a school of some sort was definitely the predominant [suggestion]," Weeks said.
Austin Voices asked community members for their insight on how the vacant facility should be used and what the board and administration should consider when determining its use.
