Budget decisions have consequences...Worcester's are arriving

And over time, they can get expensive...

Even the $70 million worth of immediate repairs, which include fixes and upgrades to current inoperative systems and life safety equipment in older school buildings, won’t be something the district can tackle all at once, he said; the school department typically only sets aside around $2 million a year to spend on building maintenance and repairs. The total repair costs identified for all 28 schools assessed in the report, meanwhile, would be more than $300 million, the summary said; replacing all of them would cost close to $700 million.

There's a joint subcommittee meeting on this on Wednesday at 5. While the full report isn't yet posted, you can find a three page (fairly unsatisfying) executive summary and the presentation posted off the agenda.

Don't miss, by the way, the relationship to the city capital budget, as reported in today's T&G: $118M, of which only $3.6M (which, if that's accurate, is about $1M more than usual) goes to schools.
There are fifty buildings. See the problem?

UPDATE: here's an interview on Worcester News Tonight: