WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) - The Wichita Board of Education met once again Thursday afternoon to hear Wichita Public School's revised facility master plan.

At the beginning of the meeting several people talked to the board about concerns they had regarding the facility master plan the district has proposed. 

One of these people is Aaron Andrews. He says he has three kids in the district and two of them go to OK Elementary. This is one of four elementary schools the board is looking at possibly consolidating if it approves the facility master plan.

Andrews says he's worried, adding that it's hard enough to work and be a father without these added stressors.

"My plan is to keep them in OK elementary and now we don't know what's gonna happen," he said while talking to the BOE. "Life is hard enough. We'd like you to rethink everything you're doing."

Thursday afternoon at the BOE meeting, the district presented its new revised facility master plan based off of feedback it got from the community. 

"The board has been very diligent in doing the community engagement. Now it's time to start moving forward on what's going to actually be in the plan and whether or not it can be approved sometime this summer," said the BOE president Stan Reeser.

Much of the plan remains the same but there is one change the district is making.

"We decided to pull the Dunlap move to Bryan from the plan. It doesn't really change dollars much. There's not really a need necessarily to move those Dunlap kids out of there over to Bryan," said WPS Director of Facilities Luke Newman.

Reeser says this is because there are students with special needs who go to Dunlap and the survey results from the community showed people were concerned with how this might impact them.

"The thought perhaps was we could be interrupting routines for a very fragile type of people who need routines so it seems to be a pretty reasonable change," says Reeser.

The current master plan involves rebuilding eight schools, remodeling three schools, and consolidating or closing four elementary schools, two administrative buildings, and five alternative schools.

The district says consolidating means closing the school and moving all the students there to another school together. It says this should move students to nicer and newer facilities without taking them to far away from where they currently go.

The district says this plan can't be done without getting a bond. It is looking at a 450 million dollar bond but the school board hasn't approved requesting that yet.

The BOE doesn't have a set date for when it will vote whether or not to approve this plan.

Reeser says he still wants to digest the plan more. It's a lot of moving parts and he wants to make sure he and the rest of the board understand it so it can make the best decision for the community.