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School committee names Anna Oliver to MSBA Brockton High architect review panel, 5-3
Summary
The committee voted 5-3 to designate School Committee member Anna Oliver to serve with the mayor and superintendent on the Massachusetts School Building Authority architect review panel for Brockton High School; the panel will help the MSBA select an architect for a feasibility study.
The Brockton School Committee voted 5-3 on Jan. 21 to designate Anna Oliver to represent the committee on the Massachusetts School Building Authority’s (MSBA) architect review panel for the Brockton High School feasibility process.
Why it matters: The MSBA-approved feasibility phase will evaluate whether Brockton High School should be renovated or rebuilt; the review panel helps the MSBA choose the architect who will carry out that due diligence.
Vice Chair Tony Rodriguez nominated Ward 3 representative Anna Oliver for the committee’s slot on the 11-member review panel that will meet with the MSBA-appointed members and the district’s owner’s project manager, LeftField. The committee then took a roll-call vote that produced a 5-3 result in favor of Oliver.
Mayor Sullivan told the committee that the MSBA side outnumbers the city-school representatives on the panel and cautioned members about the panel’s scope: “MSBA is gonna call the shots. So it’s gonna be myself, doctor T, it’ll be Anna Oliver on behalf of school committee. And then, whatever happens from the architect review panel, this committee doesn't have a say in what the MSBA chooses,” he said.
The committee received additional details about the MSBA process earlier in the meeting: the OPM LeftField met timing deadlines and the MSBA will ask the city and school side to submit one school committee designee by the end of the month so the three city-school representatives can meet with the eight MSBA appointees. The district and the MSBA will then advertise for an architect and complete the feasibility and due-diligence stages, a process the meeting record estimated could take roughly a year and a half.
Committee members discussed logistics including possible meeting times (the MSBA sets the schedule) and how the city and school team will report back to the full committee. The mayor and superintendent said they will report monthly on MSBA progress.
Ending: The district will submit the committee’s nominee to the MSBA before the end-of-month deadline and continue the MSBA feasibility process and monthly reporting to the school committee.
Quote: “MSBA is gonna call the shots...we're outnumbered,” Mayor Sullivan said, describing the structure of the review panel.
