Lake Washington School District (LWSD) invites applicants interested in serving on a Long-Term Facilities Planning Task Force.

This group will study, analyze and make recommendations concerning the district’s long-term facilities needs. The district seeks 41 parents (one from each neighborhood school, plus the three choice high schools with their own campus), two members of the business community, two senior citizens and four community members at large.

As the fastest-growing district in King County over the last two school years, LWSD is facing a need for classrooms to house its growing enrollment, which has increased close to 2,000 students over the last three years to 26,708. At the same time, the district has been following a plan to modernize all of its school buildings. However, recent bond measures have failed to garner the required 60-percent approval.

To better understand the larger communities’ priorities and desires regarding school facilities, the district wants to engage the community in a dialogue to further explore the enrollment and capacity issues, potential solutions and alternatives. The task force is part of this process.

The task force will begin work this fall and continue through June 2015. The whole task force will convene between three and five times during the year. A smaller working sub-committee will meet more frequently, five to six additional times. This group will develop proposals and/or recommendations for review by the full task force.

The task force will include staff, students, administrators, parents, senior citizens, community members, business leaders, administrators, staff and students. Interested parents, senior citizens, community members and business leaders are invited to apply to serve on the task force. Applicants can indicate whether they are willing to serve on the task force as a whole only or on the task force and subcommittee.

Task force members will be selected from those who apply based on achieving representation of a wide range of experiences, perspectives and geographic location.

To apply, click on this link or go to the district website at www.lwsd.org, where a link will be available on the home page. Those interested are asked to submit an application by Thursday in order to be considered.