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The Board of Education is awaiting the final estimates for the proposed capital project they will bring before district voters in February.  The $20.1 million project has been sent to the New York State Department of Education to determine the precise level of aid that will be available to the project.  At this stage the numbers stand at $18,725,000 for Proposition 1, which deals with campus-wide repairs, the bus garage, moving the District Office to the high school, and upgrades and new classrooms and renovations to the high school.  Proposition 2 stands at $2,005,000 for new band and technology rooms.

"The numbers really have not changed from the last meeting," said Superintendent Mark Lewis.  "The design team is in the process of working with the State Education Department seeking approval of the overall project scope in determining what precise level of state aid will be applied to the project."  Lewis said the aid information would definitely be available to the Board at their December 14 meeting, if not before.

Glen Swanson noted that the district is researching whether moving of fire hydrants really needs to be included in the project.  "If it is not necessary it would be nice to not put it in there," he said, saying it would somewhat reduce the total in Proposition 1.  Lewis promised to provide the information on the hydrants at the next BOE meeting.

The Board will have to conduct a State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR) to determine the environmental impact of the project at the December 14 meeting, and then they will vote on whether to adopt the two resolutions to put before the voters on February 6, 2007.

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