• If we need classroom space lets build it. They are not looking at the most cost effective method of accomplishing this. The gym and auditorium are frivolous expenses that we don't need. We should address the real needs like classroom space and expenses that don't do anything for education.
• The plan was inadequate, and the site too small.
• It is too expensive and the money was not focused directly toward academics.
• More studies need to be done and more information needs to be given to the public.
• Too expensive for what was proposed.
• Inadequate management of funds.
• Not adequate for future needs.
• These were ill informed proposals that were not thought out well enough and too expensive for what the communities were getting. They are a bad value for the money.
• The needs of the school were not met and there was not enough open discussion in the entire process.
• Young people need to learn to take care of what they already have before something new is given to them.
• Can't trust the school district.
• The money and building plans are a mess.
• School board has no "vision", too slapdash.
• Need a better proposal.
• It was not planned well and it was too expensive for what they were going to build.
• They could probably do it differently.
• Too much waste in proposal monetarily.
• School board held in deep suspicion with previous budget.
• There was not enough adequate preparation for this project.
• The auditorium separated.
• Expansion did not cover growth rate.
• Money was not being spent on academics.
• The school board is out of control with its spending and the school board is too greedy. Also, they wasted $7000 on this survey.
• Not well thought out and it did not go out to bid.
• They are shooting from the hip again.
• Money was not used wisely and sensibly.
• I do not believe in this.
• Poorly done.
• Very poorly conceived, over priced, poorly designed, would not meet future educational needs of the community.
• It was not well thought out. It wasn't well prepared.
• Inadequate plan, insufficient to meet the educational needs.
• Too expensive for few students, outrageous.
• Too high a cost per student.
• This is not an efficient use of money from the students needs point of view.
• Board has not done its homework.
• Plans are too extravagant.
• Didn't think it out well enough.
• Too expensive.
• Spacial needs not thought through.
• Bad use of funds.
• While the school does need additions, I was unhappy with the design, not well thought out or planned. Did not like the bidding process and the contractor chosen.

• They have messed up on other bond construction programs specifically at Mastway and the Middle School. They are not asking the right questions which will lead to the same dismal results.
• Didn't like the high maintenance roof design.
• I didn't think it was something we needed.
• Doesn't need a new auditorium, or a new gymnasium.
• Proposed construction is inadequate to site.
• Negative article in the paper.
• Taxes high already, especially for retired people.
• Plan is too expensive.
• We're just not getting enough for the money.
• The school is overrated anyway.
• Educators are building the building.
• Foolish and not adequate, ship non A students out.
• I don't think everybody was well informed.
• Taxes are a concern to me and nobody seems to have thought of it.
• Money could be spent better.
• Concerned because of Middle School.
• Opposed to entire school system too many people that pay no taxes, no common sense-protest vote.
• Too much money per student-raise taxes.

• My answer is the same as the previous one. They didn't deliver on Mastway and Middle School.
• Start with the infrastructure first.
• There are three towns with differing incomes. Madbury has fewer students but pays the highest taxes, most of which go to the school district.
• We don't need an auditorium to educate students.
• Overall disregard for the school board.
• Not adequate for future needs.
• I'm not sure the auditorium should be paid for by the tax payers. It should be bigger so that it could be used for outside school events to make a profit, rather than just having the tax payers pay for this for only school events.
• It didn't meet the needs of even the current student body. The placement of the proposed addition did not allow for any further expansion in the future.
• If young people can't take care of what they already have, why should we give them anything new.
• Too small.
• We already have one.
• Auditorium not big enough.
• Doesn't need a new auditorium.
• I did not think that it was thought out well.
• The auditorium is not needed.
• Wants it all done together.
• Too much monetary waste, not enough seats to make it profitable.
• Only showed one side of the issue. Limited amount of options.
• I did not think that size auditorium was big enough.
• Size and seats.
• Too small.
• School board did not exhaust their options. They should not have separated the projects, this way it becomes too complicated and too expensive.
• Don't need an auditorium, should spend on academics.
• They do not need it.
• We can rent the Johnson theater for less, it is not cost effective.
• I felt it was not necessary for separate, dedicated auditorium and cost was out of line with other similar projects.
• Too expensive.
• Don't need an auditorium.
• They need a better plan to save money.
• I wanted better programming and look into more.
• No one showed me the need for an auditorium.
• I do not believe in this.
• Do not need auditorium.
• Need classrooms more.
• Not needed.
• They are the same people who proposed HS infrastructure renovations. They are the same people who gave us two other disasters in town and there is nothing redeeming in this proposal. Also, they have never done this before. The proposal is overpriced and inadequate. I have a daughter in Ohio where a beautiful 800 seat auditorium was built for $2.6 million.
• Auditorium is a luxury.
• Too small to seat all the high school students.
• Editorial in Foster's about the design.
• We didn't need it.
• Probably the cost per student was too high.
• I hadn't heard enough about it to know if it was feasible or not. I didn't know if it had been thoroughly investigated.
• The money, there are other things more important to spend it on.
• Not necessary.
• Poor design, waste of money.
• I didn't like the design, no multiple uses.
• Not necessary.
• Wants everything together, not worked out for the price.
• Don't need a facility like that.
• Bad plan, not big enough. There is no access to music and art rooms.
• School does not need an auditorium, UNH has adequate facilities for the high school to use.
• Whole plan not carefully thought out.
• Auditorium is a luxury, not a requirement. It spends time being empty, and 500 seats doesn't fit the whole school.

• The school board is too arrogant.
• Location within the school.
• The school board has their head in the sand and they are spending too much money on this survey.

• I am a graduate of Oyster River.

Last update on 29-Mar-99 at 9:31 PM.

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