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Medford selects SMMA for MSBA high-school design; educational visioning begins
Summary
The School Committee reported SMMA was chosen as the MSBA designer for the high-school project; educational visioning and advisory teams will convene, with an educational plan due in February and a preferred preliminary design plan due by June.
Member Graham updated the School Committee on the high-school project timeline under the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA), saying SMMA was selected through the MSBA designer panel and the school-building committee approved the contract, which the mayor subsequently signed.
Graham said the district is conducting "educational visioning" with high-school educators and will convene two visioning sessions that will expand to community participants. The process will produce two-dimensional design sketches in January and an educational plan deliverable in February; cost estimators and more detailed options will follow through June when the district will narrow options and submit a preferred preliminary design plan to MSBA.
Graham also said the district will recruit advisory teams for interior/exterior design, site safety and security, educational planning, and mechanical/electrical/sustainability. He emphasized opportunities for public engagement throughout the early design work and encouraged interested community members to respond to upcoming calls for advisory-team participation.
The update included early planning details such as enrollment projections that will help define classroom counts and vocational-space needs and noted the MSBA rules and parameters that may limit some options (for example, constraints on theater/auditorium size within MSBA-funded projects).
