No = YES for our children's future, improved educational achievement, and transferable job/career & college skills

No = YES for adding high school capacity consistent with recommendations and the near future economic and legally mandated environment soliciting advice on behalf of the entire community from these stakeholders:

-          Community volunteer experts evaluating a variety of alternative educational delivery strategies maximizing student achievement at minimal costs

-         City's specialized but independent volunteer commissions comprised of experienced expert and professional evaluating the community quality-of-life and economic impact

-         City's paid, professionally credential staff, community and economic development experts from the university and local colleges evaluating potential unintended consequences

-         Community volunteer experts evaluating potential practical consequences of current and future state and national education policy

No = YES for continuing Mayor Hindman's vision of neighborhood green spaces connected by sidewalks and non-automobile transportation

No = YES for reminding the Columbia Public School District Board of Education it is not an Island; their decisions should be consistent with the best interest of the community (and, therefore the children) as enacted by elected City officials' visioning and master plan

Central City Core's Special Concerns

(Residential Neighborhood & MU, SC, CC's Students, Faculty, & Staff)

No = YES for continuing Mayor Hindman's vision of neighborhood green spaces connected by sidewalks and non-automobile transportation

No = YES using financial best practices including NPV for developing a community impact statement and recommendations that includes purchase or leasing existing vacant buildings analysis thus retaining sales and property tax revenues within the city limits and generating state income tax revenues for distribution back to the MU & Columbia community

No = YES using community development best practices for developing preventive, sustainable (infill) strategies against a MU, Stephens, & CC campuses surrounding by deteriorating downtown and residential neighborhoods or a Downtown District and campus surrounded be a high-crime urban jungle

No = YES using best practices of community economic development land conservation for sustainable growth, a livable city, and continued tourist/convention destination for the central city's residents and businesses

No = YES small, specialized high school learning centers for creating transferable work skills and technical workforce for attracting future employers versus building a high school on undeveloped land accelerating middle class flight to newer subdivisions in the outlying county resulting in economic-based de-facto segregation

No = YES is a synergistic economic development and educational access for creating a Business/Retail Marketing themed learning center with a central city affordable grocery store partially operated by high-school students providing real-world experience

No = YES is continuing the legacy of Ms. Almeta Clayton's vision for an affordable, inclusive, neighborhoods in the central city