Additional acreage added to School Road site (16 Parade Ground Court) but no new $$ OK'd at Special Town Meeting May 30, 2002. The original property is not sufficiently buildable (read--"not enough dry land") to support a new 3-4-5 school without purchase of 16 Parade Ground Court. New Referendum vote April 22, 2003 (get results here) did not reverse Nov. 15, 2001 Referendum (Item #2) - the new 3-4-5 school. State of Connecticut D.E.P. demands and ultimately OK's site for tertiary treatment plant for the School Road campus expansion; Weston Middle School Auditorium design competition concludes (ARO the winning design firm) at the end of January 2004: ON HOLD. In late winter 2006, Board of Education funds feasibility study for building any auditorium at WMS (i.e. must be able to seat at least ONE entire grade; no extras, no fly space - a box), and results of ARO study is that nothing adequate can be built for less than $4.6 million [?])
Playing
fields, according the the Norwalk HOUR Saturday, June 1, 2002, will get
boost from State of CT Bonding Commission (providing $500,000 of the
$1.4
million needed for Fields Complex)...Morehouse Farm Park (see above, at
upper right) went through Conservation and Parks and Recreation
Commissions
- fields approved, irrigation not yet; lawsuits against everything--by
now, almost all dismissed in Town of Weston's favor; new concepts
for football field
as a multi-use football field with new, modern track
mirror Ridgefield's...how will we pay for all these projects?
Through
the generousity of some Westonites and the steadfastness of other
taxpayers...through
bonding over long spans of time. Or maybe it all will not get
built
afterall? Stay tuned to the soap opera that is "Weston
Construction
Projects."
For link to
the Building Committee or the School Building Committee, please click HERE.