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Flint superintendent asks House subcommittee for $8.79 million to demolish four vacant school buildings
Summary
Kevlin Jones, superintendent of Flint Community Schools, asked the House Appropriations Subcommittee for $8.79 million to demolish four long-vacant buildings totaling 468,896 square feet, citing public-safety costs, recurring vandalism and the district's limited resources to maintain unused facilities.
LANSING ' Flint Community Schools Superintendent Kevlin Jones urged the House Appropriations Subcommittee to approve $8.79 million in state support to demolish four long-vacant district buildings, arguing the structures pose public-safety risks and divert scarce district funds from classrooms.
Jones told the subcommittee the four properties ' McKinley Middle School, Northern High School, Anderson Elementary and Stewart Elementary ' account for 468,896 square feet of abandoned space constructed between 1929 and 1965 and closed for 13 to 17 years.…
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