Editor's note: This version corrects locations of meetings.

Groton — The group charged with creating a plan to upgrade Groton’s aging public schools has scheduled two community meetings to outline its plan to the public.

The School Facilities Initiative Task Force will hold community meetings at 6:30 p.m. on May 21 in the Groton Senior Center and at 6:30 p.m. on May 28 in the Town Hall Annex. The group will give a 30-minute presentation of the school construction proposal, which it is calling the “Groton 2020 Plan,” at each meeting, then take questions from the public.

The plan would build one new middle school adjacent to Robert E. Fitch High School to create a campus atmosphere for students in grades 6-12. The proposal would then build two elementary schools on the sites of Carl C. Cutler and West Side middle schools. Pleasant Valley, Claude Chester and S.B. Butler elementary schools would close.

In early June, the task force intends to launch a community survey by phone to gauge public support for the proposal, Jerry Lindsley, president of the Center for Research and Public Policy, said Thursday. Results would be released at the end of the month.

The survey would be done by phone, and would ask residents up to 40 questions about their perceptions and interest in the schools, and whether they would support the plan at referendum if the vote were held today.

A draft of the survey also asks for an open-ended response to the request: Please tell me why.

The firm will use census data to obtain a sampling of homes and collect demographic information from people such as their age and income.

School Board member Andrea Ackerman, who serves on the task force, said she was concerned the survey was too long. But Lindsley said surveys for the Centers for Disease Control take 45 minutes, yet people typically complete them.

“If they’re interested, they stick with us,” he said.

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