Susan Tuz
Published 12:27 pm, Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Board members Alan Brown, Valerie Andersen and Kelly Lott said Monday they felt broadsided by seemingly new dollar amounts they were hearing for renovation work needed at Shepaug Valley Middle/High School.
"All of these numbers can be massaged based on the fact that we're hearing now the $20 million isn't needed and we can do the necessary work for $1.7 million or $3.6 million," Brown said. "This whole system is flawed."
In June, the region's first selectmen and boards of finance chairmen asked the education board to select the option of building a consolidated pre-K through fifth-grade school on the Shepaug campus and make necessary repairs at the middle/high school.
Officials from Bridgewater, Roxbury and Washington had concluded a full $20 million in repairs to the middle/high school proposed by architects Kaestle Boos did not need to occur all at once, but rather be parceled out in five-year increments.
That prompted three hours of arguments and accusations.
The only progress was approving education specifications for a proposed consolidated elementary school.
"You don't like our answers. You don't trust our figures and you've turned down the RFP for a project manager," said Superintendent of Schools Pat Cosentino to the board. "I don't want anyone leaving here tonight thinking that anyone on my administrative team is being deceptive."
On the agenda but not accomplished were setting a referendum date for amending the regionalization plan; authorizing a request for proposals (RFP) to hire a project manager; and estimating the costs of the pre-K project.
Another meeting is set Sept. 16 at 7 p.m. to continue the discussion
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