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Select Board chair outlines cost, timing of proposed NHERI school ahead of May votes
Summary
Select Board Chair Cathy Cook and the NHERI Building Committee briefed the Planning Board on a proposed new Neary (NHERI) elementary school, telling residents the town share is now estimated at about $68 million and that two votes in May will determine whether the project proceeds with a state grant expected April 30.
Select Board Chair Cathy Cook, speaking with members of the NHERI Building Committee, told the Southborough Planning Board on April 28 that the proposed Neary (NHERI) elementary school project will likely require two town votes in May and that the town’s share of the project is now estimated at roughly $68 million.Cook said the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) will vote on April 30 on a grant the town expects to receive, “$35,000,000 and change,” and that the town will need a two-thirds vote on May 10 plus a separate May 13 vote to exclude the debt from the two-and-a-half percent levy to proceed. “We need a two-thirds vote, to pass… We also need a positive vote on May 13 to exclude the debt,” Cook said.Cook and Mark Davis of the NHERI Building Committee…
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