The Board of Education thanks our school district community for its continuing support. By a vote of 294 to 244, the school facilities proposal was approved with 54.6% voting positively. This approved proposal will enable our District to make much needed essential repairs to our three oldest buildings - Elm Drive, Alden Place and Millbrook Middle School. The Board also acknowledges with deep appreciation the fiscal support of the generous benefactors in our community, whose significant donations will be applied to offset the approved expenditures for a new track and baseball field, thereby keeping the tax impact of these much needed improvements to a minimum. Additionally, the site work improvements to our athletic fields will now be eligible for state aid reimbursements of up to 23% because voters approved expenditures in combination with the building construction at our schools. We look forward in the coming months to submitting our construction plans to the State Education Department for its final approval and then commencing construction as soon as construction bids can be advertised and accepted. In the best case scenario, we hope to begin some construction as early as the summer of 2012. We will keep you posted on our planning and progress.
Once again thank you for your continuing support.
Thomas M. Hurley
President, Board of Education
