NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Hutchinson USD 308 Superintendent Dr. Dawn Johnson explained at Monday's USD 308 Board of Education meeting that the YMCA and the school district both feel like the direction toward a new building is happening, but there may be issues in getting it done.
"It's now state law that says the state has right of first refusal before we would do something with any other building that goes to another entity," Johnson said. "Right now on the docket Wednesday, there is a hearing on House Bill 2489, I think it is, which is amending that statute a little bit to make sure it's only talking about attendance centers. Right now, let's say we wanted to get rid of the warehouse, we couldn't get rid of the warehouse."
The district has a building that the YMCA wants to have go away so they can expand next to the Y's current building.
"Randy and I were going to meet and then the snowmageddon happened, or however that word would go," Johnson said. "Just to start looking at where we might pull those, IT department, Special Ed department and then the transitional learning center, where they might go in our district, if this would all come to fruition, that we would vacate the building."
Right now, the plan is still for the Y to do its expanding next to Hutchinson High School.
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