WARRACKNABEAL school leaders will meet again next month to continue discussions about state budget allocations and plans to co-locate campuses.
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Warracknabeal Secondary College, Warracknabeal Primary School and Warracknabeal Special Development School have a master plan to develop a new education precinct to combine the three schools at the primary site.
The original master plan for the education precinct required about $20 million.
School leaders met on Thursday to discuss the budget money, and will meet again on May 11.
College principal Michael Briggs-Miller said the college needed to look at whether the budget allocation was enough to move forward with co-location plans, or if the school would be better investing the money at its current site.
He said the community would remain informed throughout the process.
“We'll keep the information coming as quickly as it comes to us,” he said.
“We're working through a whole lot of possibilities at the moment.
“The funding opens a lot of doors, but we need to work out what is the best way forward.
“There is strong support from all the principals to make co-location happen.
“It certainly won’t be the master plan that was drawn up some years back, but we are committed to an education precinct and sharing resources, whether we’re sharing them across one site or a few.”
Mr Briggs-Miller said Thursday’s meeting was productive.
“It went really well, but there’s still a lot of water to go under the bridge at this stage,” he said.
“We’ll be having another meeting where we’ll look a bit more at the buildings and assets we do have, and which ones we can repurpose and redevelop.
“We want to keep our hall, but there is a fair bit of white ant damage in there.
“It’s a very important asset for the community and the community wants to redevelop it to be a state of the art facility.”
Mr Briggs-Miller said a range of groups used the hall.
“We have an Easter group that camps at the school, and the hall is also used for deb balls and other functions,” he said.
“We’ve also had requests for people to use it for a Rotary function.
”But because of the state it’s in, it's underused in our opinion.
“If we were able to invest the money in that, it would be a really good move.
“Having a space like that on site is really important for the school, but also for the broader community.”