Two WPS projects on the Council agenda this week--plus Burncoat is up again

 A couple of Worcester Public Schools facilities-related notes this week:

There are two items on Tuesday's Council agenda related to WPS facilities work. 

• The first is borrowing $2M on the North High building loan to put sprinklers into the Harlow Street building (which is where Challenge and Reach Academy is now). The back up says this was discovered when the MSBA work was done; the Harlow Street School has a new roof, windows, and boiler as of (checks budget) 2020 (if you haven't been by, go check out those new windows! They really make the building look nice!).
  
  
• The second is the full borrowing for the Worcester Arts Magnet project. You might remember that Worcester Arts Magnet just moved forward with another approval vote from the MSBA board on a roof replacement. Because the cost of the work on the building is more than 30% of the building's assessed value, it triggers state regulation 521 CMR 3.3.2, which requires that the entire building then be made accessible. The estimated cost of this in total is now $6.9M. 

Also, on Thursday's agenda, the Worcester School Committee is being asked to (again) put forward Burncoat High as our number one priority (see page 183), as we (apparently?) received word in February that it wasn't accepted this year. We are not giving up on this!