October 1, 2015
Dear Hardy Families:
On Tuesday night Matt Kelley, one of the School Facilities Committee representatives, presented their recommendations regarding the future of Hardy,Hunnewell and Upham facilities. A link to the presentation is below:
Dr. Lussier and Matt Kelley will be at Hardy to share these recommendations with the Hardy parents on Monday, Oct. 5th at 7:00 in the Hardy gym.
A summary of the recommendations and timeline are below:
Recommendation:
- Build new Upham while continuing to occupy existing building
- Move Upham students into the new building and temporarily relocate Hunnewell students
- Renovate and expand Hunnewell and provide additional parking
- Close Hardy
- Redistrict into six schools
- Total student capacity: 961
- Estimated total cost: $105M
Proposed Schedule Milestone Date
- TM appropriation for feasibility and schematic design for both schools ATM Spring 2016
- Feasibility and schematic design May 2016 – March 2017
- TM appropriation for detailed design and construction for both schools ATM Spring 2017
- Debt exclusion vote May 2017
- Detailed design and permitting June 2017 – Dec 2018
- Construction of new Upham December 2018 – June 2020
- New Upham opens,
- Hunnewell students are relocated September 2020
- Renovation of Hunnewell July 2020 – January 2022
- Renovated Hunnewell reopens September 2022
- Hardy closes September 2022
Thank you,
Charlene Cook, Principal
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Hello Hardy Families