Citing a request from School Committee Chairman Charles C. Saraca, the permanent building committee voted last night to suspend planning for the proposed $6.1 million Norwood High School addition pending a comprehensive review of educational specifications.
Building committee chairman John J. Egan disclosed that he had received a letter from Saraca asking for a two-week suspension. Egan noted that the committee will revise its project brochure to provide a more detailed itemized cost breakdown for presentation at a contemplated November special town meeting. The original article was indefinitely postponed at the June session.
The $6.1 million project includes 43 additional classrooms, five new laboratories, seven seminar rooms, alterations, site preparation, and an estimated $327,000 Olympic-sized swimming pool for the 43-year-old facility. Egan warned that construction costs are climbing at a rate of 1 percent per month.
Additionally, the committee voted to consult Town Counsel Walter J. Gotovich regarding whether equipment and furnishings fall under state low-bidding statutes (Chapter 30, Section 39M). Committee member Justin C. Barton raised concerns that all items exceeding $2,000 may be legally required to go to the low bidder, a departure from past practice where furniture contracts were awarded independently.
Archival Note: This article has been dynamically reconstructed from the original public record print archives of the Patriot Ledger
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Redecorating Of School Interiors Is Recommended-February 9, 1950
Purchase Of Land For New Stands At High School Also Urged By Supt. Lynch Recommendations for the improvement of the present school plant before the town faced with the problem of new construction were advanced by School Superintendent Lincoln D. Lynch, as principal speaker at the February meeting of the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday night…
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