Superintendent Dr. Courtney McNeely made comments about the updated plan for the bus depot at the Feb. 18 Board of Education meeting: 

The delayed response from the state gave us an opportunity to take a thoughtful pause and evaluate concerns and, more importantly, consider how we could improve our existing plans to accomplish our goals of adding essential instructional space at the high school and making much-needed building improvements.

It is important to move the bus depot from its current location. That enables us to create more viable instructional space, move the buses to a different, more suitable location, and remove the maintenance garage from our high school building. We all agreed that was very important. We can’t add instructional space on that campus any other way. 

We are not moving the bus depot to the UES campus. 

However, this is not without challenges and we are still working through the environmental challenges. These changes will also push back completion of the traffic patterns and bus depot by almost two years. Still, we have found ways to enhance our plans and our use of the high school space, as well as improving our athletic fields on Bridgeboro Road.   

We thank you for your continued support of the district. I do not want us not to lose sight of the reasons that we need this referendum. It’s because we need our students to have instructional spaces and access to everything that we want them to have - add-ons for WAMS (William Allen Middle School) and space in our elementary schools is crucial to our continued growth. 

I value the partnerships we created and those that we will continue to build. I’m excited to work together with the board to achieve our vision of education in Moorestown and to continue our legacy of excellence.