Tri-County RVTHS held their 4th in a series of Community Updates to share information on the school building project on Thursday, June 15, 2023.
Tri-County Superintendent Karen Maguire opens the session and introduces each of the speakers. My brief recap is as follows:
- The current school is 'broken', per the MSBA process the building did evaluate options to renovate, renovate & create an addition, or rebuild. The rebuild option was selected as the most viable.
- The cost today is shown as 284M. Franklin's portion will be calculated on the number of students attending Tri-County and currently estimated at about $2M (see handout PDF below)
- Oct 24, 2023 is scheduled date for approval of the Tri-County school replacement project approval assuming that MSBA decides on a final cost during August
- When MSBA does approve the final cost, they should also provide the reimbursement expected, hence the bottom line for the district to pay
- Additional details will be provided after MSBA makes their decision
- After the October vote to approve the project, additional details for the cost per community can be developed
- It is likely that the first payments wouldn’t be due until FY 2026 or FY 2027
- The October vote will be conducted across the 11 communities at the same time, from 12 PM to 8 PM. The vote will be counted in aggregate and a 50% +1 is required for passage
- The MSBA process is out of step on a couple of fronts: (1) it doesn't appropriately account for Voc tech schools as distinct from 'regular' schools (2) the vote by the district doesn't mention how each community will fund it. Many (at least some) communities may require a debt exclusion. Measures to address these issues have been filed with the MA House & Senate and are currently in the committee process, what will happen to them remains to be determined
The slides shown during the meeting video are expected to be posted to the Tri-County page on Friday. Once the link is found, it will be added here. In the meantime, I did capture photos of the slides and speakers. Those can be found in one album -> https://photos.app.goo.gl/Wx3ST2CPAogW5cfV6
Presentation copy -> https://www.tri-countybuilding.com/_files/ugd/7870a5_26e521f9652444a0be34c8dea278106f.pdf
Handout with estimated community share of the building project debt
Franklin TV did a live broadcast of the meeting from Tri-County and it is available for replay via YouTube -> https://www.youtube.com/live/7SYEYsoyaAU
The audio of the meeting is also available -> https://franklin-ma-matters.captivate.fm/episode/fm-1013-tri-county-rvths-community-update-4-06-15-23
Franklin TV video
Franklin Matters/wfpr.fm Audio Recording
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| Tri-County building project update provided, some questions remain but the date to vote is set as Oct 24, 2023 |
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