Here is a recent one-minute video clip of the former Superintendent of NKSD. During this video speech, she said things that are now inconsistent with what is being said by NKSD Leadership today. 

Superintendent said: “This facility is also very challenging for another reason and that is the lot on which it sits um back in the spring I came out and met with parents and community members and the staff and talked about the challenges we were facing as we contemplated the future of Pearson and the number one challenge we have is how would we try to put another school on this site that would actually house the number of students that we need to fully staff Pearson and how do we do that while meeting contemporary code requirements like having a fire Loop that goes all the way around the building which does not exist and we went to the Architects and asked a lot of 
questions about that they came back with several renderings and every single one of them has problems um chiefly there's no way to separate out a bus loop and parent pickup and drop off so the nightmare that happens every day here twice a day would continue in perpetuity um we also would run into issues with being able to bank up the back of this lot has a big ravine that goes down at a pretty steep slope to bank up that to be able to have a fire loop that will support a fire engine um is a significant concern as well.”

If this 2024 Levy is approved, construction of a new school will begin on the current Pearson campus; the plan will 
add a new gymnasium, a parking lot, and drop-off/pick-up area. This is the same campus we were emphatically told 
could not accommodate a new school. This was not said by not just one Administrator (no longer a NKSD employee) but was also supported by many current Administrators, Staff and Board Directors (two of whom are still Board Directors). NKSD has not given the community an explanation as to why in just four months this is a wonderful place to begin construction on a 
future school. 

We are told the new Citizen Facility Advisory Committee (CFAC) is making the Capital Projects decisions. Where are they getting the information to make the decisions? Primarily from the top donor of the failed 2024 Bond, the architecture firm that was hired to facilitate this committee. This is the same firm that worked on the 2024 Bond, designed Kingston High School, 
Poulsbo Middle School addition, the Suquamish gym, and the Wolfle gym. 

The CFAC was given information on the Lone Maple property (an alternative location to Pearson property purchased by NKSD in the 1990’s) on 6/12/24 during a campus tour of Wolfle Elementary. At the next meeting 6/26/24 during a campus tour of Kingston Middle School the meeting minutes appear to say the decision to build on the current Pearson site had been made.

The Pearson site may very well be the best place for the new school, maybe not. The NKSD Administration and 
Board of Directors needs to explain how this property goes from impossible to build on to let’s pass this Levy and commit to a new building. We believe more time must be taken to ensure the new school will be built in the best location possible. Passing this levy WILL make the commitment to future construction on this site.