Roxbury Elementary School teacher Kristyn O’Brien’s husband attended the elementary school in the ’80s, which she described as now being a “very dilapidated school building.” It’s why she and other Stamford residents spoke in support of a potential rebuild of the 70-year-old Roxbury Elementary School during the Board of Finance’s meeting. However, O’Brien and other people who came to the meeting to argue for Roxbury left disappointed. Contracts for an owner’s representative and an architect to provide schematic designs for the Roxbury project were removed from the Board of Finance’s agenda before its Oct. 10 meeting. The two contracts had a combined cost of $895,000. Under the current plan, the more than half-century old building would be replaced with a new facility for students in kindergarten through eighth grade. Once the project is complete, Cloonan Middle School would be closed and students from that school would move to Roxbury. Many of the members cited the ballooning budget to rebuild Westhill High School as their reason for shooting down the Roxbury contracts.
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