After more than a year of work and on the eve of unveiling a massive building plan for the Hays school district, a committee put together by the district will submit its proposal without presentation.

In a letter to the Hays USD 489 Board of Education on behalf of the facilities needs committee, co-chairmen Patrick Lowry and Bryce Young said “now is not the time” for the committee to publicly offer its recommendations.

The committee’s plans, which were tentatively scheduled for presentation to the school board Tuesday, calls for approximately $100 million in improvements throughout the district.

The school board approved the elimination of positions district-wide at Monday’s meeting and  is considering a series of potential fee increases. A mail-in election on a proposed local option budget increase also is in the works. The moves are designed to offset a 2014-15 budget hole of $1.3 million — a financial situation administrators said has been made worse by the school funding bill signed recently by Gov. Sam Brownback.

The materials prepared by the committee will be turned over to the school board for long-range planning purposes, and a future presentation remains a possibility.

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