Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Initially pegged at $1.5 to $1.8 million, building new Melrose High School science labs will probably cost around $3.3 million, Melrose City Planner told the aldermen.
The cost of building new science labs at Melrose High School could be more than double than what the city originally projected, Melrose City Planner Denise Gaffey told the aldermen last Thursday. In early June, when Melrose received word it had been selected for a new science labs grant program by the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA), Mayor Rob Dolan said a "back of the envelope" estimate put the total cost of the project at $1.5-$1.8 million dollars. When city officials voted to send a statement of interest to the MSBA in January, city officials had a rough cost estimate of $1.2 million. But at the aldermen's meeting last Thursday night, when the board unanimously approved a $153,000 bond for design and project management …
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Melrose High School
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Thursday, June 7, 2012
The Massachusetts School Building Authority will pay for half the cost of building new science labs at Melrose High School, an estimated $1.5-$1.8 million project.
Melrose is one of nine communities selected to receive state funding through a new short-term grant program designed specifically to help Massachusetts high schools address deficiencies in their science labs, Mayor Rob Dolan said yesterday. The new grant program by the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) is $60 million of "one-time funding" that the MSBA is earmarking solely for science labs. Dolan said building the new science labs at Melrose High School will cost approximately $1.5-$1.8 million dollars, a "back of the envelope" estimate because design work hasn't started yet. Whatever the final total amount of the project, the MSBA will pay for half. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act—commonly called the federal …
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Melrose High School
360 Lynn Fells Pkwy, Melrose, MA
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Monday, April 30, 2012
NEASC has kept the school on warning status for the building condition.
Melrose High School has been removed from warning status for curriculum by its accrediting agency, but remains on warning status for the building's condition, city and school officials announced in a press conference on Monday morning. Last June, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) re-accredited the school in its decennial review, but placed the school on warning in two of the seven standards it uses to evaluate schools: Curriculum, and Community Resources for Learning, the latter of which refers to the building's condition. The warning status in those areas required the school to submit a special report to NEASC that, after the school was granted an extension, was delivered at the beginning of March. The …
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Melrose High School
360 Lynn Fells Pkwy, Melrose, MA
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
The city will now borrow $250,000 for design and project management services at the high school, leading to renovations that could cost up to $7 million.
A request to borrow $250,000 for design and project management services for renovating Melrose High School received final approval from the Melrose Board of Aldermen on Tuesday night. City officials previously told the aldermen that the renovations would take three years and could cost up to $7 million, with the city on the hook for $5 to $5.5 million of that. The exact cost of the project won't be determined until the city hires an architectural firm, using the $250,000, to design the renovations. Mayor Rob Dolan has repeatedly said in recent months that renovations of the 36-year-old building is his primary goal, a point he reiterated to the aldermen's Appropriations Committee last week. In June 2011, the New England Association of …
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Melrose High School
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
The bond would pay for design and project management services. The total cost of the renovations at Melrose High School could cost up to $7 million, with the city on the hook for $5-5.5 million of that.
The aldermen's Appropriations Committee on Monday night unanimously recommended the city's request to borrow $250,000 for design and project management services for what city officials say would be a three-year renovation project at Melrose High School. Mayor Rob Dolan has repeatedly said in recent months that renovations of the 36-year-old building is his primary goal, a point he reiterated to the committee Monday night. Last June, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) placed Melrose High School on warning status in part due to the aging building's condition. "This is the first financial commitment I’m asking the Board of Aldermen to pay to implement a program I believe, over the next four years, is going to be the …
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Melrose High School
360 Lynn Fells Pkwy, Melrose, MA
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
NEASC required the special progress report after the school was given warning status earlier this year.
Melrose High School has submitted its progress report to NEASC (New England Association of Schools and Colleges), outlining how the school is addressing areas of concern that resulted in the school being placed on warning in two accreditation categories last year. NEASC's Commission on Public Secondary Schools will review the report before voting on the school's status in the two warning categories: Curriculum and Community Resources for Learning. In May 2011, NEASC informed Melrose High School officials that the school had earned reaccreditation, but had also been placed on warning due to concerns regarding the lack of a curriculum alignment plan, crowded classrooms and the aging building's condition. That warning status required the …
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Melrose High School
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
The Massachusetts School Building Authority would pay a little more than half the cost of creating new science labs at Melrose High School.
The Melrose Board of Aldermen and School Committee both unanimously voted this week to send a statement of interest to the state regarding a new short-term grant program designed specifically to help Massachusetts high schools address deficiencies in their science labs. Melrose High School's science labs were one of the building condition items cited by NEASC (New England Association of Schools and Colleges) when it placed the school on warning status last spring. The accreditation agency report noted "inoperable hoods in some science labs that do not meet code and are labeled 'Do Not Use.'" At Tuesday night's School Committee meeting, Melrose City Planner Denise Gaffey told the committee that the new grant program by the Massachusetts …
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Melrose High School
360 Lynn Fells Pkwy, Melrose, MA
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
At the City of Melrose Inaugural Ceremonies Monday night, Mayor Rob Dolan laid out his plans for the coming year.
New modes of outreach and two-way communication between City Hall and Melrosians and emphasis on Melrose Public Schools highlight the 2012 agenda laid out by Mayor Rob Dolan at Monday night's inaugural ceremonies in Memorial Hall. In reaching out to Melrose citizens, the 10-year mayor entering a new four-year term said that with the ongoing economic climate, in which the city needs to create sustainability without relying on additional assistance from the state or federal levels, requires the city must go to its "active and intelligent citizenry" to brainstorm and develop ideas for the future. (Read the full text of Dolan's speech.) "We must engage the thousands of new residents who have moved into our city in the past 10 years," he said…
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Memorial Hall - Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Building
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Originally due on Dec. 1, the accrediting agency has given Melrose High School until March 1 to file the special progress report due after the school was given warning status earlier this year.
Melrose High School has an additional three months to outline how it will correct areas of concern that earned the school warning status from NEASC (New England Association of Schools and Colleges) during its reaccreditation process earlier this year. Principal Dan Richards told Melrose Patch on Tuesday that Janet Allison, director of NEASC's Commission on Public Secondary Schools, extended the deadline for the high school's mandatory special progress report from Dec. 1 of this week to March 1, 2012. Richards said that he met with Allison to ensure the school was on the right track before submitting the special progress report and that "she was impressed" with the progress being made at the school. "She offered to extend the deadline to …
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Melrose High School
360 Lynn Fells Pkwy, Melrose, MA
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
Melrose will end its municipal trash hauling service and contract trash pick-up to a private company, among other changes intended to reorganize the way the DPW does business and generate savings that would allow the city to renovate the high school.
Editor's note: This article was updated on Thursday at 11:41 a.m. For potential but as-of-yet unfinalized possible changes to trash pickup, scroll down to the subhead "Trash changes." Plans to privatize trash pickup in Melrose for the first time ever and reorganize the way the city's Public Works Department does business should generate enough future savings to tackle needed renovations at Melrose High School, Mayor Rob Dolan said at a press conference on Tuesday. As City Hall begins preparing for the next fiscal year, Dolan said that having already secured pension reform, a one-year wage freeze and moving city employees' health insurance to the state Group Insurance Commision (GIC), Melrose is short on opportunities for big chunks of …
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Melrose Public Works - City Yard
72 Tremont St, Melrose, MA
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Melrose Department of Public Works
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Steve Meuse
8:41 am on Thursday, September 29, 2011
I'm really excited about these changes and what they mean for the city. Beshara and Scenna are doing a great job running public works! more ›