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Residents press Brighton board over soil contamination and bundled $13.6M referendum
Summary
At the April 28 Brighton Central School District board meeting, residents pressed the board about contaminated soil found near athletic fields and asked why a $13.6 million capital-reserve referendum bundles unrelated projects and a contingency that may be tapped for soil work. District officials said a mitigation plan has not been finalized and any soil work would require state-agency approval.
At the Brighton Central School District Board of Education meeting on April 28, residents pressed district leaders for clearer answers after soil contamination was identified under athletic fields and the district proposed a bundled $13.6 million capital-reserve referendum that includes a construction contingency.
Kim McGary, a public commenter, said she was concerned that voters were being asked to approve funding without a mitigation plan. “We don’t know what we’re voting for,” she said, arguing that the referendum bundles items such as turf work and elevators with an unspecified contingency that public outreach had described as covering some of the soil work.
Board members and district staff acknowledged the tension between the referendum’s packaged structure and the current lack of a finalized remediation plan. The chair said the $13.6 million figure covers projects in multiple schools and that the construction contingency is a percentage of the 2024…
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