The following info was sent out in an email re school building project. Make sure you sign up to stay informed!! Great News! At yesterdays March 26th meeting of the Massachusetts School Building Authoritys Board of Directors, the Board voted unanimously to approve Abingtons proposed Grades 5-8 & 9-12 school building project with an adjacent Pre-Kindergarten area, and thereby authorized the Abington School Building Committee (ASBC) and its professional team to move forward into the Preferred Schematic Design Phase. This is a huge milestone for Abingtons proposed school building project, and the MSBAs approval is a testament to the hard work and comprehensive research that the Abington School Building Committee has undertaken during the last two years. The ASBC must now continue forward with the development of detailed schematic building floor plans and site plans for eventual submission to the Massachusetts School Building Authority later this summer. The MSBAs authorization to proceed into the Preferred Schematic Design Phase also confirms that our Building Committee has thus far complied with all regulations and deadlines required for the Town of Abington to remain on track to qualify for MSBA school construction grant money. Based on historical data, it is expected that Abingtons project could qualify for MSBA state grant funds which could pay for over 55% of the projects reimbursable costs. The Abington School Building Committee would like to thank State Senator Geoff Diehl and State Representative John Keenan for attending yesterdays MSBA meeting with our ASBC representatives and for speaking on behalf of Abingtons residents! We again encourage all residents to attend any of our upcoming meetings, or to submit questions via our website (ASBC.us), or to offer your input and ideas during this next phase of schematic design. Please help us spread this information by forwarding this email to other interested residents and urge them to Subscribe to News at our website in order to receive future emailed updates! UPCOMING MEETINGS: Abington School Building Committee Next Work Session Friday, March 28, 2014 @ 7:30am-8:30am Residents are invited to attend this weeks Work Session to be held in the Abington Public Schools Administrative Offices at 171 Adams Street (the former North School) Ai3 Architects, ASBC members, and school personnel will review schematic site plan and building plan issues and discuss any comments/requirements of the MSBA NEXT MEETING of the Abington School Building Committee (ASBC) Thursday, April 3, 2014 @ 6:00pm Location: Abington Police Station Community Room At the April 3, 2014 meeting of the ASBC, the Building Committee will review all comments received from the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) by that date, and will continue the task of coordinating a plan for moving forward to create more specific floorplans and site plans, reviewing the results of recent work sessions, analyzing state grant funding requirements, gathering community input, etc, for the new Grades 5-12 Middle/High School. Residents are urged to attend, or to offer their comments and suggestions to members of the ASBC. As many other local towns have done during their school building design process, we hope to gather as much community input as possible in order to assure that this community investment will be a significant asset to our residents of all ages. You are receiving this email because you Subscribed to News on our website at ASBC.us. Please forward this information to other interested Abington residents, and urge them to also log on and Subscribe to receive future emailed notices. THANK YOU
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 22:07:13 +0000
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