A volunteer committee will take a closer look at the school district’s $750,000 plan to build an office for administrators after Town Council called for more oversight. The council has required the project to be reviewed by the Municipal Building Committee, with some members calling into question the school board’s capability to manage its own facilities. The school board had requested to use $750,000 in capital reserves to fund the construction of a permanent Central Office at Sarah Noble Intermediate School. Town Attorney Randy DiBella emphasized the school board’s request called for using capital reserves for “the construction of a permanent Central Office.” Construction projects, he said, are required to go before the Municipal Building Committee. The costs of relocating the Central Office to Sarah Noble at 25 Sunny Valley Road was originally estimated at around $4 million, according to a 2019 relocation study conducted by the architectural company Silver/Petrucelli & Associates. The school board has since worked with the town to design a less costly relocation plan.
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