Board contingently approves John Wallace renovation drawings, leaves final approval to building committee and town

The Newington Board of Education voted Feb. 5 to contingently approve the construction drawings and cost estimate for the John Wallace Building Project (094-0112), with the contingency to be removed once the John Wallace Project Building Committee approves the plans and the town completes its review.

The decision came after a presentation by Mr. Roach of the architecture firm Fryer, who told the board the project remains on budget. "We are on budget. In fact, we're $40,000 under the grant amount right now," Mr. Roach said. He described the work as interior alterations and renovations with no change to the building footprint and laid out a phasing plan by Newfield Construction: renovate the seventh- and eighth-grade wings first (target June–December), then the sixth-grade wing through…