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Upper Darby details capital-projects plan; proposes low-cost bathroom restoration and advances hospital planning
Summary
Director of operations Marvin Lee presented a capital-projects update including a lower-cost surface-renovation method for Highland Park bathrooms (negotiated to roughly $416,000), grant-funded roofing/solar projects, generator replacements, and near-term planning for the recently acquired hospital property; Clifton Heights Middle School substantial completion target is Aug. 23, 2026.
Marvin Lee, the district's director of operations, gave a detailed capital-projects update outlining renovations, grant-funded work and plans for the district's recently acquired hospital property.
Lee said original bids to renovate multiple high-school toilet rooms were roughly $3.5'3.8 million; after value-engineering the administration found a surface-restoration method (identified in the presentation as "Miracle Method") that could accomplish much of the intended modernization for a fraction of the cost. Initial pricing for that alternate method was about $480,000 and Lee said negotiations drove…
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