The Stratford High School Renovation Subcommittee expects to recommend its choice for project construction manager (CM) to the Town Council’s Building Needs Committee in December, so that the full council can act on the CM choice at its January meeting.
With a CM approved, architect Paul Antinozzi expects to work with the CM in January to review each of the five construction schemes that are being considered by the subcommittee.
This timeline was determined at the subcommittee’s monthly meeting on Nov. 17. With this timeline, February would be the earliest that the subcommittee would likely vote on its choice of construction scheme — whether renovate, renovate as new, or do mostly new construction.
As with the CM choice, after the subcommittee makes its choice, the recommendation would then go to Building Needs Committee and then to the full Town Council.
Stratford High Principal Joe Corso attended the subcommittee’s meeting and said he would like to see progress on selecting the construction scheme. He told the group that the town has known about SHS building deficiencies for 18 years, and the state agreed eight years ago not to put the school on probation with the understanding that there would be movement by the town to improve the facilities.
Corso said his two-year report to the state is due in September 2015, and it must “show movement” on building renovations or “risk probation.”
During the subcommittee’s Nov. 17 meeting a number of changes to the subcommittee membership were agreed to and approved by the Building Needs Committee later that evening. Board of Education member Christian Barnaby had agreed to be taken off the committee, according to Chairman Allen Llewelyn, and the group decided to remove Alvin O’Neal due to lack of recent participation.
Added as formal members of the subcommittee were Board of Education member Len Petruccelli, Town Council member Ken Poisson and Corso, each of whom had been regularly attending recent meetings.
Petruccelli, Poisson and Corso join Llewelyn, BOE member Bob Chaloux, BOE Chief Operating Officer Clarence Zachery, Town Council member Jason Santi, Town Council member Stephanie Philips, and Dan Senft as formal members of the SHS Renovation Subcommittee.
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