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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1959-12-28-CEC-min.pdf CAFITAL EXPENDITURES COMMITTEE Meeting, December 28, 1969 with School Committee Present School Committee — Don Clark, Chairman, Gordon Steele and Sanborn Brown Standing School Building Committee — Austin Fisher, Jr. , Chairman .superintendent of Schools — kedill Bair and Paul Peehler, Asst. ?ropri. tion Committee — J. Blaisdell and E. Palmer, Accountant Capital Expenditures Committee— Noyes, t'almea , Woodoerry, Warden, Souza School enrolment estimates, shown on another page, were pres.tnted by Sandy Brown. They are the result of he work of cownitsee consisting of Sam Snow, Geo ;'adswortb, Rosemayy Fitzgerald, Keit, Butters, Dick Cromwell and Sandy. They tried to get at the figures in tae following ways 1 lend survey 2 a .method of calculating enrolments by calculating survival rates within the school system. 3. extrapolation from existing school system. 4. study of organic life os the town (which can be gr' phed) A look at now ..owe pas been -rotting led to the conclusion that the saturaoion point is to be reached in 1980, wits a «ximur Ippulation of 55,000. We are still in period os rapid growth and will not start levelling until about 1970 Laud survey shows 6473 undeveloped acres on which 5512 houses could be built. The number of dwelling units (incllding 40u apartments foreseen by Nanning board) is 7679. Assuming 4.3 people per dwelii_ „ unit (Tel Co estimate) , this gives maximum population of 5u,380. Maximum increase in population should come in 1965. School population is calculate, by ::sing method of N E.School Dev. Council,i.e. predicting survival rates Greatest source o inaccuracy in this is lack of knowle't,;e of exact population except in years census is taken. The committee checkec, by predicting on basis of oirth rates. Their ii. aires for population will zifser fro, federal figures by .bout 2,090, the :miser of patients in the state hospit.,l The maximum error in the estimates given is 11% for grades 1-6, 8% for ;races 7-9, ant. 3% for gr•.ues 10 — 12. Mr Noyes sentioned that 11% is enough pupils for one school and Sanuy agreed that the elementary school proposed for .1966 might be needec. one year sooner or latex than that. Grove St. School — Lir. Eisner confirmed that about 0,000,000 would be recuested in March 1960 for this school, which should open, dept. 1961 It is equivalent to 3 rooms lace, nen Hastings. Can estimate 1 million less cost of plans already paid (, 50,000). Secondary School Space — If Lr BBair' s suggestion is followed, the 10th grade will be housed in a secondary school on the dump site. Space is needed Fall 1962. Capacity for 600 pupils will be needed (10th grade for 1962-1964 will be 565,585,575, according to estimates) . Facilities for a larger school will ©rohaoly be included at this time. T'aerefove, to cover larger Seating plant, auditorium, etc 1 6 million will probably be needed. Additional space will be needed for the 9th grade in fall of 1964. (1700 is cap city of 2 junior high schools) Then grades 7 — 9 will have an estimated enrolment of 1850 However the denier High School, which has space for 1300 pupils, will 'lave only 1105. With some reshuffling the 9th grade could be accouodc.ued for one yea: more. Assuming space is needed in fall 1964, this light cost 1 3 million. The two stage secondary school might be built with g miasiun in first stege, auc:itoriura in second stage, classrooms for 600 in each stage. Total cost 2.9 =million. Elementary school, 1963 — lir Fisher suggests that, because Grove St. will take an exsra 100 pupils, this Wight not be needec, until b964. However, in case of under— estimation of enrolment, this should oe in report for 1963. Meeting with School Co mittee, 2 December 25, 1)59 Grove St. School — _r. Falmer stated that it seemed a bad idea to build a school for an ex.)erimental program the results of -which are still unknown. ,;'.r. Fisher answered that tue Grove St. School as planned can oe converted to 23 standard rooms at very little cost. The thought was to build a school wnich could take the s ranklin : rogramif it succeeds. He was asked if it woad cost more to build a school which would take this prograa and how much it would cost to couvert it. His cos..nittee decided that, because the school would take 100 more pupils, and considering that construction costs have risen since Hastings and 1lairinaton were built, this school will coat no more (per pupil) than t,iose. No figure was availaole for cost of conversion — it would involve removing two cinder block, non=bearing walls To the question of tJe possioijity of adapting all the Lexington schools to tae franklia program i> it should prove successful, :r. Bair answered that Barrington has been stur.ied thane it had been fan-au that several things could be done which would increase t-e capacity of the school as mucin as they wo:.ld increase the cost. This is true al ,o of dastiugs,and Fiske This would not be possible in the smaller schools he added that the pupils in the smaller schools lack other adva:i;,ages available to those in the larger schools now. Mr Blaisdell aatser, whether this new pr•ogf4m wound give more education for the same money or will it cost more. Operating costs could be the same l8 or t 10%. Elementary School originally proposed for 1965 is not thought to be needed until 1966. Therefore .dopey for plans is neeued in :arch 1964 — ;?65,000. School Sites — it was thought advisable to speed up acquisition of all sites which may be neeuea during the next tea years. Worthen ;,oar: — The school committee was asked want the proposed plan for 'forthen '-toad would mesh to ._:ear clans. They mentioned that money for planning the playing fields etc had seen „ransferre, by Appropriation I1 ropriation Com:;iooee to enable Sam Snow to get a man to work on this plan for them. It was thou:;ht that an overpass would oe needed if the •oac :vent through CATIT L EXPENDITURES COMMITTEE Meeting with School Committee, Decembe. 28, 1x59 SCHOOL E.N CL ENT ESTI_ITES, given by S Brown Grades 1 1 - 6 ; 7 - 8 9 - 10 11 — 12 7 - 9 10 - 12 1959 — 60 3450 1 1050 805 537 1445 977 Actual 1960-61 3550 1135 925 660 1670 1050 Estimated 1961-62 '1750 1115 1105 740 1680 1280 " 1962-63 4000 1110 1145 835 1690 1400 n 1963-64 4100 1155 1125 920 1700 1500 o 1964465 4350 1276 1120 1155 1850 1700 II 1965-60 4500 1405 1170 1225 20h:0 1800 It Max. Dev from mean 1 11 8% 3% SCHOOLS NEEDED Anpropri to in March for to be opened in Fall 1960 $ 9509000 Construction, Grove St. Elem. School 1961 1960 90,000 Final Plans, Secondary School 1962 1961 1,510,000 Construction, " " 1962 1961 65,000 Final Plans, Elementary School 1963 1962 935,000 Construction, " " 1963 1962 70,000 Final Plans, Additional Secondary Space 1964* 1963 1,230,000 Construction, " " " 1964* 1964 65,000 Final Plans, Elementary School 1966 * Additional Secondary Space may not be needed until 1965 if it is possible to put part of the 9th or 10th g made in the high school, or if the estimate of enrolment is high.