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Board presented $2.6 million Sapphire Elementary roof project; district plans to use Excel Aid and reserves, says no immediate tax impact
Summary
Business office staff recommended Proposition 2 to replace the Sapphire Elementary roof, estimated at $2.6 million, funded with $549,000 in NYS Excel Aid and roughly $2 million from the district capital reserve; administrators said the project would not raise taxes and that building aid will reimburse the reserve over about 15 years.
Mister Cahill, a district business official, presented Proposition 2 to the Monroe-Woodbury Central School District Board of Education on April 8: an estimated $2.6 million capital project to replace the roof at Sapphire Elementary School.
Cahill said the roof has passed its useful life, winter patching has not solved repeated leaks, and that recent building-condition surveys show the replacement cannot be delayed. "It is a need to have, not a nice to have at this point," Cahill…
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