Boston officials present MSBA statements of interest for Madison Park and repairs at multiple schools

Boston City Council Committee on Ways and Means Chair Brian Worrell and Boston Public Schools and Public Facilities Department officials on March 3 presented statements of interest the city plans to submit to the Massachusetts School Building Authority for the core program at Madison Park Technical Vocational High School and for accelerated repairs at a set of elementary and specialty schools.

City and school officials said the accelerated repair submissions cover roofs, windows, doors and, for the first time in the ARP, heat-pump conversions at schools including Boston Adult Technical Academy, Curley K–8, Mildred Avenue K–8, Mendel Elementary, Mary Lyon Pilot High School, Joyce Kilmer Lower School, Margarita Muniz, Orchard Gardens K–8 and the Trotter. Brian Ford, chief operating officer for Boston Public Schools, said ARP eligibility metrics included “roofs that are greater than 25 years old, windows that are greater than 30, and the project cost estimate is greater than 250,000.”

Del Stanislaus, chief of capital planning for Boston Public Schools, presented the city’s core-program statement of interest for Madison Park. He said cost estimates returned from the district’s design team last fall placed a new-build at “Roughly 680 to 700,000,000 for a new build or 700 to…