Franklin
county commissioners are supporting a Franklin County School district
project to build a road behind the Franklin County school.
School
board member Carl Whaley said as a matter of student safety the
school district needs to build a road that would provide secondary
access and egress from the school.
Currently
the only way in or out of the school campus is through the front
entrance.
Whaley
said the road would be for emergency use only to provide access if
emergency vehicles need to access the school grounds or if students
need to be evacuated and the front entrance is inaccessible.
The
road could also allow students to access the school if Highway 98 is
washed out in a storm.
Whaley
said at this point the school is considering a limerock road that
would be for emergency use only that would lead from behind the
football field along an existing dirt track to what many people call
“old dump road.”
That
would then access Highway 65.
Whaley
said the county's support could help the school get an easement
through the public forestland the road would run through.
He
also hoped the county would provide limerock to stabilize what is
currently a dirt road.
The
County commission said they will support any move that will increase
student safety, particularly in light of the recent school shooting
in Florida – but they felt the school district should work on
getting more than a limerock road that will probably need a lot of
maintenance.
County
commission chairman Smokey Parrish said the school should seek state
funds to get a paved road large enough to carry school buses.
He
said the county would support any request the schools made in that
regard.
The
board also pointed out that there is a much shorter route to the
school through Grammercy Plantation, which is a gated community just
west of the school, and recommended that the school district look at
that route first and try to work out an agreement with the
homeowner's association.
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