MERIDEN — City Council will decide the fate of city’s health department and alternative high school, as well as whether to turn an old hospital into a school at Monday night’s meeting. The City Council’s Finance Committee voted to recommend the full City Council approve those three items out of four proposed new construction projects, including a new school for Casimir Pulaski, a renovation to the city’s health department and a conversion to the second floor of that building for an alternative high school. A key selling point for the new Casimir Pulaski School at 1 King Place would include the demolition of the city’s largest eyesore, the former Meriden-Wallingford Hospital on Cook Avenue. City officials said by putting a school in there, the state’s 90% reimbursement rate would cover the $16 million estimated demolition cost. It was the easiest vote of the evening.
Meriden to vote on turning the old Meriden-Wallingford Hospital into Pulaski school
