[Frank Grossman]

As a mentor for team 1073 we can't thank you enough for your concern and suggestions!!

The team consist of about 10% of the school and is the largest team on campus. We take very little money from the school district, $6,000 a year in the past. But we could fund raise that money if we need to. The biggest problem is the shop space, without it we would have to rent space somewhere not near the school and assume we would have a much smaller team.

This came about because the budget committee wanted a zero dollar increase this year. But with fixed costs rising and a larger than usual number of special ed. students entering the coop the only answer was to cut programs. So among others was proposed to cut the Technology teacher, the programming teacher and repurpose the shop into classroom space.

So we would appreciate any letters you might write to our school board letting the know the importance of FRC to a school and its students. Or how important the EM are to STEM and the importance to getting students started at this age.

Again, Thank You.