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Rell’s Answer to Schools: $64M out of $70M
by Paul Bass | Dec 22, 2005 2:20 pm
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Sheridan got the governor’s preliminary OK for extra money. So did Jackie Robinson, Barnard, Troup, and four other public schools undergoing either renovations or new construction and running over budget. Cooperative Arts High and Benjamin Jepson weren’t as lucky, but school construction chief Sue Weisselberg (in photo) says not to worry.
That’s the word from Hartford about New Haven’s request for a whopping $70 million in new money for 10 school construction projects already approved and underway. (Click here to see why costs shot up, a problem facing construction projects around the country.) The projects are part of the city’s ambitious $1.5 billion effort to rebuild or construct new homes for all its public schools.
New Haven requested that the governor include the $70 million in her office’s annual list of priority schools for supplemental bonding. Based on recommendations from her education department, Rell approved the following requests for the following schools:
• John C. Daniels School, from $38.37 million to $44 million.
• Jackie Robinson, from $35 million to $36 million.
• Barnard, from $34 million to $43 million.
• Troup, from $36.57 million to $44 million.
• Beecher, from $30.21 million to $40 million.
• Columbus, from $28.18 million to $35 million.
• Sheridan, from $23.79 million to $39 million.
• Bishop Woods from $28.18 million to $37 million.
Now Rell’s list goes before the legislature, which will vote on it in 2006.
Rell left two New Haven requests off the list:
• Cooperative Arts High School. The state previously approved $58 million for the regional magnet school, which will be built at the corner of College and George streets. The city says it needs $66 million.
• Benjamin Jepson School. The state originally approved $37 million for renovation. The city sought another $3 million.
David Wedge, manager of the state ed department’s Bureau of School Facilities, said Thursday he doesn’t recall precisely why those two projects didn’t make the list. “I wouldn’t characterize it as ‘not doing something right’” on the city’s part, he said.
Weisselberg, the New Haven school rebuilding chief, said the city has a plan for proceeding with both those projects. Both are in early stages, and the city’s estimates were speculative, rather than based on actual bids or other costs. “They [the state] said to come back with firmer numbers,” Weisselberg said.
On Coop, the city will “work with the [state] delegation” to try to restore the money in the legislature in 2006, Weisselberg said. If that doesn’t work, the city will resubmit an application to be put on the governor’s priority list for 2007 based on actual bids. The city’s still in the process of acquiring property for the school, so it will have a clearer idea next summer how much that acquisition will truly cost.
With Jepson, the city will put out bids and use that information for an application for the 2007 list, as well.
The city will solicit bids for work on the schools, then make a new pitch to the legislature based on the prices of those bids.
She said the city wanted firmer numbers on both those projects.
The governor’s priority list also includes money for two new New Haven projects: a $40.26 million new home for Hill Central and $30.4 million to renovate Davis Street.
