Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Watch to the Tri-County New Building Information Session - 10/03/23 (video)

The Franklin TV recording of the information session held Tuesday, Oct 3 at the Franklin Public Library is available.


Tri-County School Committee members Peter Wiernicki and Jen D’Angelo presented, assisted by a Facilities Representative.


  • 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, MSBA will reimburse 29%

  • Oct 24, 2023 is scheduled date for approval of the Tri-County school replacement project approval by the 11 community members of the Tri-County district

  • The October 24 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 11 individual communities can make their own decision on how to fund the expense of the new building. Franklin has chosen to do a debt exclusion to raise the money separately from the operating budget. That vote is schedule for the Nov 7, 2023 election ballot


Watch the session -> 
https://youtu.be/SWhZxW8AtNo


or Listen to the audio of the info session, approx. 47 minutes

Audio file -> https://franklin-ma-matters.captivate.fm/episode/fm-1070-tri-county-rvths-new-blgd-info-session-10-03-23



Peter Wiernicki (R) and Jen D’Angelo (L)
  Jen D’Angelo and Peter Wiernicki 

Tri-County New Building Info Session - Oct 3 at Franklin Public Library
Tri-County New Building Info Session - Oct 3 at Franklin Public Library

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