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The lawsuit has prompted the Massachusetts School Building Authority, which was paying some $118 million of the $375 million project, to pause payments. (Jenna Fisher/Patch)
WALTHAM, MA A group of abutters to the new high school project under construction filed a lawsuit in the Middlesex Superior Court in December accusing the Waltham Zoning Board of Appeals of improperly approving zoning variances and the city of violating private property rights.
The lawsuit has prompted the Massachusetts School Building Authority, which was paying some $118 million of the $375 million project, to pause payments. In accordance with MSBA policy, and pursuant to section 4.13 of the Project Funding Agreement for the Project. the MSBA is placing reimbursements for the Waltham High School project on hold at this time because of the Pending Litigation, MSBA Executive Director John McCarthy told Mayor Jeannette McCarthy in a letter dated Jan. 14,
Both enrollment and best practices for capital planning will affect reimbursement rates and scope of any project undertaken. The city entered the eligibility phase for renovating or replacing Greylock Elementary School in December 2019. The process had been put on hold for some months but the building committee resumed its functions last fall. On Tuesday, the committee had a preview of the information to be discussed on Friday with MSBA officials. Final documents will be submitted by March 30. We need to make sure that the calculation for enrollment is based on our previous projections prior to the pandemic as opposed to through or during the pandemic, Superintendent of Schools Barbara Malkas said. She anticipated some back and forth questions from MSBA on Friday that may mean revisions to the current enrollment projection.
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Haverhill High School gymnasium. (WHAV News file photograph.)
The Haverhill City Council on Tuesday approved spending $60,000 to pay for a feasibility study and design for a partial roof replacement project at Haverhill High School.
The study and schematic design are required by the Massachusetts School Building Authority as part of a possible state Accelerated Repair Program grant.
During the Schematic Design Study phase, the MSBA will work with the city’s project manager to find an economic, educationally appropriate and sustainable solution to the repair of the facility.
In a related matter, a request by Council President Melinda E. Barrett for a status update on the newly combined city and school’s maintenance department was put on hold after Council Vice President Colin F. LePage said new Maintenance Director Steve Dorrance plans to address the Council in person to discuss what has been achieved over the past three months as well as his vision going
Design must stabilize glacial till for Fisher Hill school expansion in Orange
Glacial till was discovered where there was expected to be ledge and engineers will have to devise a way to stabilize it while building an access road to Fisher Hill Elementary School that will serve as a second entry and exit route. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
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ORANGE The Fisher Hill Elementary School project’s $45.7 million construction cost is expected to remain under budget after engineers devise a way to stabilize the glacial till so it doesn’t slide into the planned new school access road.
Martin Goulet of Hill International Inc., the company managing the project on behalf of the town, said an unforeseen issue arose when crew members cut into a hill. Glacial till was discovered where there was expected to be ledge. This means Raymond Design Associates, the architecture firm handling the project, must design the access road in a way that does not allow the till to s