The Worcester County Board of Education Tuesday approved Becker Morgan Group’s feasibility study for Showell Elementary School, voting to proceed with designs for a replacement for school built in 1976.
“It’s long past due,” Board Member Robert Hulburd said of the overhaul of the space-stretched school. “I think it got put on the backburner and I’d like to put it on the front.”
While Becker Morgan’s Ellis Hammond said Showell’s structure is well maintained, the group found a number of deficiencies during its study ranging from aged roofs and deteriorating tiles to substandard lighting and insufficient facilities to house the student body that attends school there.
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Ridiculous. Since it is a county/state project, it will cost 2-3 times more than if it were just a private building.
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