Concern has been voiced at reopening School 16 without addressing some of the uncontrolled heat problems in some of the room.  The School 10 and School 16 Proposal For Rochester's 19th Ward proposal bringing K-6 back to 16 was to:

• In the next 6 months - in time for next school year - paint the interior walls in School 16, clean and seal the grout in the boys’ room and make sure fans are exhausting properly. Do any other low cost Band-Aids that allow use of the school for the next 5 years.

The biggest excessive heat problem is in the 3rd floor rooms.  An option to address the heating problem in those rooms while still reopening the school is as follows:

• Decide to keep School 10 in 19th Ward.
• Reverse the decision to make School 16 PK-8.  It should be PK-6.
• Make necessary cleanup/grout sealing/ventilation fixes to boy's rooms.
• Take care of rodent issue.  This is an ongoing sanitation issue in all schools and was brought on in part because of kids eating in breakfast in the classrooms from what I understand.  It is a problem we have to fix if we are going to have early start times and free breakfast which we want.
• Start repairs immediately on heating control in 3rd floor rooms at Post Ave School 16 site.  That probably won't get finished by fall.
• Bring back K-4 from Freddie Thomas this fall.  You can do that without using 3rd floor rooms being refurbished this year.  Bringing back only K-4 also gives you a better chance at reestablishing good discipline environment in the student body.  
• Start immediately to make replacement/refurbishment plans for Schools 10 and 16. 
• Since 10 is a single story building, two story buildings make more sense in an urban neighborhood where homes are two stories, and the District is inclined to replace rather than refurbish Class 3 buildings, I'm sure rebuilding 10 as a two story building makes the most sense.  That can be done on the south end of the current School 10 lot while the old School 10 continues to be used.
• That brings us back to my prior proposal for leveraging the space in the old School 10 building for School 16 renovation:  School 10 and School 16 Proposal For Rochester's 19th Ward.

I think the primary and important difference in the above proposal from our prior discussions is the concept of bringing back K-4 rather than K-6.   That lets us fix the heating issue in the 3rd floor rooms which are the worst in terms of over heating.  A year and a half should be more than enough to fix those rooms to whatever renovation state the district wants.  In the fall of 2014 School 16 can then start growing back out to K-6.  The environment improvement this change makes will make acceptance by teachers easier for a quick return.