October 14, 2008

School project delayed three years

Because of the sinking economy and struggling financial markets, school Superintendent Philip Streifer said tonight that the Board of Education plans to put off the $130 million school project for up to three years.
He said the plan is to do minimal work each year until 2013 so that the two new schools can open as late as the fall of 2015 without giving up the state reimbursement rate of 74 percent for the project's cost.
City councilors, the Board of Finance and city Comptroller Glenn Klocko praised the move as a wise fiscal decision.
If the economy improves faster than expected, the timetable could be speeded up.
Later tonight, if things go right, I'll post the memorandum that Steifer gave to city officials.
More on all of this later, of course.

PS: Is the live feed of this meeting on cable TV working? Someone told me it isn't.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Huzzah!!! Now let's get a vote on this waste of taxpayers' money!

Anonymous said...

Oh for pete's sake. I thought the project had to be fast tracked in order for the city to get its 74 percent.

Anonymous said...

Can someone send Glenn Klocko a memo that he is not the mayor and then send a second one to the person sitting in the mayor's office to stop listening to Glenn Klocko?

Anonymous said...

Game Playing just pure game playing

Anonymous said...

give up on this already you guys are done beating a dead horse.