Former LBI Consolidated Board of Education member Tom Beaty has some concerns about the district undertaking a strategic plan without knowing its end goal going into the lengthy process, which is expected to take much of the year.

“I understand where this would work in most districts where the goal is to increase curriculum, whatever, and where they have lofty goals,” Beaty said at the Jan. 21 school board meeting, held in the Ethel A. Jacobsen Elementary School gymnasium.