Their work together has been evident over the past few years. Town hall meetings and group discussions. All with the best interest of Dothan City Schools in mind. "Our total focus is to work with the school board and the superintendent improve student achievment and to improve Dothan City Schools," Morris Slingluff of "Yes We Can Dothan" said.

They say cooperation and progress has been great. But, it's what "Yes We Can Dothan" calls a lack of community involvement in a current proposal that has them concerned. "We feel the consolidation of the two high schools is not the option we prefer and we want them to consider other options," Slingluff continued.

The consolidation of the city's two high school campuses is one of the options Superintendent Sam Nichols presented to the school board last week. He hopes the move will save the schools millions of dollars.

"I don't know that consolidation is the answer, I don't know that it is not the answer. What I do know is that five months is way too soon to try to do something like this," "Yes We Can" Board Member Libby Krietemeyer said.

Members of the "Yes We Can" board worry about the effects of consolidation on students. They there is simply not enough room at Northview to fit and manage that many students. They add the current plan is dividing the community.

"They don't even go to the community when it is a community school, the community people are not even going to partake. They make take their kids down to the county schools," Luck Martin Sr. of "Yes We Can Dothan" said.

The group says they hope the school board will table the consolidation vote and try to come up with another alternative. "I don't envy the position the board is in right now, they are backed into a corner. But what they have to do is say these are the options," Krietemeyer continued.