Category: General News

As of March 22, 2021 $185,300 taxpayer dollars have been paid on lawyers to change the Building Code.

• Aug-Dec  2018     Architectural Plans approved by the UA School Board include bathrooms labeled Gender Neutral Bathrooms, Boy Bathrooms & Girl Bathrooms. (All 6 schools)
• Jan-Feb   2019      Approved Architectural Plans submitted to City of UA for 5 School Buildings. Construction begins
• June   2020      UA School District goes to court to change Building Code for only Windermere Elementary, not the 5 Buildings nearing completion.

  Community is not informed. No public discussion during School Board meetings. No Public Record of approval.

• June  2020 Superintendent Imhoff testifies to Ohio Board of Building Appeals that there  will NOT be a choice in bathrooms.   District wants ONLY Gender Neutral in new buildings.
•  Superintendent testifies the Community knows about and supports relabeling the bathrooms.
• Oct  2020  Superintendent Blog:   Tells parents all schools have a choice. Misleading – The only schools with 3 restroom types available do not have a choice near the classrooms. Boy Bathrooms & Girl Bathrooms are located in the old part of some elementary Buildings. In the high school, the Boy Bathrooms & Girl Bathrooms are near the Gym and Auditorium, not the Academic Wing.
• 2020     UA School Board spends more than $107,000 on lawyer fees to change the Code.  Lawyer fees continue to rise
• Nov 2020  Judge Vacates original decision.  New hearing scheduled.  UA School District appeals the ruling.  The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear the case in April 2021
• City of UA – refuses to enforce Building Code. Schools are open and Signage on the bathrooms are not to Code.
• March 2020  City decides to enforce Code.  School District told to comply and put signage on the bathrooms to match Original Architectural Plans.
• March 2020 Architects respond w/direction from School Board that it is not against Code because of Title IX.
• April 2020  City tells District to follow Code.
• May 2020  School Board votes to re-label the bathrooms according to Code by May 31, 2021.  The Windermere case is still in the Appeals Court.
• July 2020 – 10th District Court of Appeals heard the Windermere Bathroom case.  It will take time for their Decision.