The Elementary School Facilities Committee approved the following motion by a 4-2 vote on August 28, 2007:

Support the recommendation of the architect for new construction, recommend to the School Committee that West School be closed and the spatial needs of those students be incorporated into the new building's design and/or subsequent redistricting and furthermore that the School Committee assess both the impact on other schools of redistricting students accordingly and the feasibility of achieving additional school closures resulting from such redistricting.