WEEK OF OCTOBER 10, 2024
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Clear Creek School District ends negotiations with Clear Creek Center for Arts & Education BY CHRIS KOEBERL CKOEBERL@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
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Years of negotiations between Clear Creek School Board members and the Clear Creek Center for Arts & Education to use the fourth floor of the new Carlson Elementary School building as a rehearsal and performance space ended abruptly in a four-to-one vote by CCSB members. At a regularly scheduled business meeting for the CCSB Sept. 19 at the high school in Evergreen, board member Kelly Flenniken began speaking on an agenda item including ongoing negotiations with CCCAE. “I am just going to go ahead and say that I’ve been struggling with this project for a long time and not because I don’t believe in the arts or because I don’t value partnership but because I have struggled for a very long time to understand financial viability of this, and I think that was well demonstrated tonight.” Flenniken said. “I’m appreciative of the conversations that we’ve had. They’ve been hard and they’ve been productive but at this point I would like to move that we cease negotiations with the Clear Creek Center for Arts and Education.” Four CCSD board members, Kerry Ann McHugh, Erica Haag and Marcie King joined Flenniken in stopping negotiations with CCCAE. School Board President Jessica North was the only vote against the motion. Flenniken’s statement and the board’s
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