The Oak Ridge Board of Education and City Council have a joint work session on Tuesday, October 20, to hear an update on plans for the Oak Ridge Preschool.
The work session starts at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Municipal Building Courtroom. The two boards will receive an update from the Joint City/Schools Preschool Building Committee.
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Sam Hopwood says
They really need to get cracking on this. A state of the art building needs to be built and if it takes a tax increase, so be it. Let’s just do it!!
Joseph Lee says
Sam, are you ok? Should someone call 911? I mean, I agree with you totally but you do know you’ll get tossed out of the “Every Penny Counts” club with talk like that. Should I send over a doctor ASAP? Thank you.