Since last THURSDAY night's RAIDING party at the LSC meeting, I have had over 2500 hits on my BLOG. That's TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED hits. I'm not sure how that translates into VOTES but I would pay attention to that number if I was running for office.
One of the upcoming things everybody needs to be on the lookout for is the much anticipated, long promised new MARSHALL. When it comes to new construction, the MSBA controls pretty much the pace. SLOW. They also control the size, I think it was first approved for a 1000 student capacity but we appealed that size and got it bumped up to 1100. Woefully small according to projections but we have no trouble stuffing kids in over capacity, just ask BREED.
I believe we got a 90% reimbursement from the MSBA. JOHN FORD LSC member happens to work for state delegate STEVE WALSH and I heard JOHN brag on how hard STEVE worked to get such a favorable match.
STILL...
That means we are going to have to come up with 20 million or so for our share. You think you're paying taxes now.
IT'S ALREADY STARTED.....
Council just approved a feasibility study (required) at $750,000. Kind of a waste, if you ask me. Look at our class sizes and the condition of our buildings and you can see that we need it for FREE. But that's the way we have to play the game.
SO....
We better WATCH out. There is POTENTIAL for corruption everywhere. Bids are being taken or will be taken soon. The BIG one is for PROJECT MANAGER SERVICES. Now there is no set figure, these kind of things are always SUBJECT TO NEGOTIATION (does anyone else's alarm bells go off here?).
THERE WILL BE FUTURE STORIES!
Hopefully, this will not be another disaster I call "The never ending Classical project" I hope whoever is hired to do the construction, will be much more competent and actually knows what they are doing, so we do not build another sinking multi-million dollar school. Although, I suppose in order to hire competent people to do the work, we first need competent people to do the hiring...right?
ReplyDeleteThe state is requiring that they do the oversight this time because of those disasters. Lynn has to let the state oversee the building of the middle schools! About time the state steps in.
ReplyDeleteThe reimbursement is 80%. The voters still have to approve bonding for the remaining 20%. The same will be true if we are able to get MSBA support for Pickering.
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