The project to rebuild Roxbury Elementary School faced a roadblock last month when a local board denied two requests to advance the plan, but a recent legal opinion appears to have removed that obstacle. In September, the Board of Finance voted 2-4 on requests totaling $895,000 for contracts for both an owner’s representative and an architect for the work, which involves replacing the current 70-year-old elementary school with a new facility for students from kindergarten to eighth grade. The reason many of them chose not to support the measures was due to the ballooning budget for the looming Westhill project, they said. In July, members of the board expressed their frustration over the rising price tag for Westhill, which shot up from $301 million to $461 million, mostly from increased construction costs. The state agreed to pay for 60 percent of eligible expenses for the new Roxbury school in the summer of 2023. The initial plan was to open the new facility in 2027.
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