Friday, February 14, 2014

Hussey: Cut $15M from school plan, drop arts center


KENNEBUNK — Renovations to Kennebunk High School, Mildred L. Day School and Kennebunkport Consolidated School should cost no more than $60 million, voters should have a say on elementary school configuration, and RSU 21 should terminate its partnership with the Southern Maine Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, says the chairman of the district's Facilities Committee.

These are some of the recommendations Tim Hussey made during Thursday's committee meeting - the second since a $75 million plan to renovate Kennebunk High School, Mildred L. Day School and Kennebunkport Consolidated School failed. Hussey said it's pretty clear that proposal failed because the scope of the projects was too big.

“If we do reduce the scope I think we can get this passed,” Hussey said.
In a series of recommendations on how the district should move forward, Hussey suggested the committees reviewing each of the projects return to the drawing board and come back with proposals for no more than $45 at KHS, $10 million at ML Day, and $4 million at Consolidated.

While members of the committee discussed aspects of Hussey's recommendations before an audience of approximately a dozen residents, the group made no decisions and will meet again on Friday, Feb. 28.

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