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COLORWORKS STUDIO OF INTERIOR DESIGN

Parents Learn Of Task
Force's Progress

JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER

hat Bobbie Miller sees demographic survey of Hillel fam-
as a three-mile exten- ilies is being undertaken to as-
sion on her carpool com- sess the issue.
"We feel that it is in the best
mute to Hillel Day
School, Gail Noble-Bialick sees interest of Hillel Day School that
as an exhausting journey she can- no stone be left unturned," Mr.
Garden said.
not afford and will not make.
While most of the crowd ap-
The two women, mothers of
Hillel students, expressed their peared to be in support of the pos-
sible high school,
opinions to mem-
it was divided on
bers of a task force
other issues, par-
studying a poten-
ticularly on the
tial move from the
subject of trans-
Conservative day
portation.
school's current
Ms. Miller said
site on Middlebelt
she did not see
Road near North-
why the task
western Highway
force was spend-
to the Jewish
ing time and
Community Cam-
money to study
pus at Maple and
the issue of a
Drake roads.
move she consid-
About 80 par-
ered to be a short
ents attended the
distance. The
meeting on Jan.
task force has
19, which served
capped spending
as an update on
on the subcom-
the progress of the
mittees' study at
task force and its
$25,000 which
subcommittees.
will come from
The task force's Jeff Garden: No stone unturned.
private dona-
work was prompt-
tions, not out of
ed by a $5 million
gift proposal from Oakland Mall the school's budget.
"We are not talking about a
owner Jay Kogan. Mr. Kogan
agreed to give the school $5 mil- move of 10 or 20 miles. We are
lion on the condition that the talking about three miles," she
school construct a new building said. "I don't see what the big deal
is."
on the Maple/Drake site.
But Ms. Noble-Bialick, a grad-
The task force, made up of 20
parents chosen to reflect the di- uate of Hillel, said it would be too
verse student body, meets on a taxing. In an impassioned speech
monthly basis. The task force di- that brought tears to her eyes and
vided into subcommittees which applause from the crowd, Ms. No-
meet more often to study the is- ble-Bialick told the task force that
sues of cost, transportation, de- she would have to remove her
mographics and education impact children from the school if it
moved.
as related to a potential move.
The meeting began with task
"I have 160,000 miles on my
force chairman and Hillel board van," she told the task force. "I
member Jeff Garden restating cannot afford a new one because
that the purpose of the meeting I chose to send my children to this
was to let the parents know how school instead."
the study was proceeding and
The move could add 15-30 min-
what was being considered.
utes each way to her commute. "I
"We have gotten a lot of opin- can't do that to my children," she
ions but not a lot of facts," said said. 'That is it. (My children) will
Mr. Garden. "At this point, we not move with it."
aren't ready to present the facts."
The task force will continue its
Subcommittee leaders briefed study for the next two months
the crowd on their progress and and will deliver its findings to the
then turned the meeting over to board of directors in March. The
the group's questions.
board will then vote to accept or
One major concern of the au- decline the Kogan gift.
dience was the possibility of a
In the meantime, the school
Conservative high school, which will continue with its expansion
would take up where Hillel leaves plans, which were announced in
off at eighth grade.
October. The plans, to be funded
Although the high school is not by an $11 million capital cam-
part of the potential gift, task paign, will supply $3 million to
force members felt that the en- the school's endowment and fi-
tire future of Hillel must be con- nance a 28,000-square-foot, two-
sidered at this time. A story addition. El

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