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On that $3.8 million
Most frequently asked question of the week: of the estimated $3.8 million spent by the Phoenixville Area School District on the aborted Kimberton Elementary School project, how much might be recouped?
We don't know. The School Board will not be addressing that issue seriously until it regroups, and the matter of a NEW new school project is put back on the table for discussion, when Board members return in August.
What we do know is that the $3.8 million total can be broken down into at least three broad categories. There's the $1.85 million purchase price. In addition, there was $1.3 million in design work and about $700,000 in environmental studies and analyses. Items like legal fees are inside those categories.
One could assume that some of the design costs may be recouped, as savings on design for a new building -- but I'd be wary of any expectation of recouping much. It is never the case that a building design for one site can just be plunked down on another; note, too, that the KES design was a close sister to Schuylkill School's, had major conceptual elements in common with it -- but it still cost a great deal to bring those elements onto the Kimberton site.
The big open question came with a hint from Board President Mark Casaday at the end of the meeting: the phrase "culpable parties" is always freighted with open questions. Assume that litigation over this will be explored, though we cannot be certain about the direction litigation will take.
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G.E. "Skip" Lawrence
posted by The Phoenix Files at
12:45 PM
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