The Red Devil Task Force was formed in February 2022 as a result of the DCSD Board of Education removing DHHS from its Facility Priority List: 

• DHHS is a 90+-year-old campus composed of 7 buildings from various eras, from the 1920s to the 2000s

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• Our campus has the oldest educational facilities still in use in the DeKalb County School District (DCSD) system

• This Frankensteined-together approach has created a campus with multiple space, security, health, and safety issues that have been ignored over the years

• The DHHS campus requires a Remodel and Modernization to bring us at minimum to a standard of what DCSD has provided all other Dekalb high schools.

• DCSD contracted $2MM to global architecture and design firm Perkins & Will for an analysis of DCSD facilities and to create a 10-year Comprehensive Master Plan.

• View the Perkins & Will report here

• View the Comprehensive Master Plan here

• Perkins & Will estimated a DHHS Remodel & Modernization at $60MM among the priority list of County facility projects.

• On Feb. 25, 2022 the DCSD Board of Education voted 4 to 2 to remove DHHS from the facility priority list submitted to the State of Georgia (WATCH THE MEETING HERE, facility discussion starts at 12:00)

  • Voted to Remove DHHS from the Priority List: DaCosta, Hill, Pierce, Turner (Chair)​

  • Voted to Keep DHHS on the Priority List: Gevertz, Orson

  • Absent from Meeting: Morley

  • Non-voting Member: Superintendent Watson-Harris

• DHHS was THE ONLY project removed from the priority list by the DCSD Board of Education 

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• The Red Devil Task Force Kick-Off meeting on March 14, 2022 was attended by almost 70 concerned community members. 

  • Presentation Slides from the March 14, 2022 Red Devil Task Force meeting​

  • Chat questions Q&A document

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• You can watch the Board's discussion on this critical topic HERE

  • Facilities discussion starts around 0:47

  • Initial topic of DHHS Modernization begins around 0:56

  • Important option for potential additional funding to help DHHS modernization and other Cluster school priorities begins around 1:01

  • Region 2 Rep. Marshall Orson's advocacy for DHHS modernization begins at 1:05:59 and the resulting alternative plan read by Region 1 Rep. Anna Hill follows.  

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• The second Red Devil Task Force meeting on April 20, 2022 was attended by 100 concerned community members.

  • Presentation Slides from the April 20, 2022 Red Devil Task Force meeting

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• The third Red Devil Task Force meeting was attended by 67 concerned community members. 

  • Presentation Slides from the May 16, 2022 Red Devil Task Force meeting​

  • Chat document from May 16, 2022 meeting

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• The fourth Red Devil Task Force meeting on July 25, 2022 (postponed from the original June 26 date) was attended by 27 engaged participants.

• Presentation Slides from the July 25, 2022 Red Devil Task Force Meeting​​​

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