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Midland Ave Building purchase


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Increased costs, yes. $3 million? Not even close to $2 million. The money's in the budget with reimbursement waiting for some work to be completed so that the board can be reimbursed. But I guess that three years of delays created by the Fab5 don't factor into your calculations for any increased costs. That seems very convenient since President O'Malley and company delayed all forward movement on the project since they began running the district three years ago. They alone are responsible for the current mess. The project would cost the budgeted $1.2 million if they completed it when it was first purchased. The Kearny High project is in the same jeopardy with increased costs due to intentional delays and bad decisions by the Fab5. Everything with them is politics first. Our children don't even factor into their decisions.

You conveniently disregard key facts. The purchase price on the building alone was $975,000. Closing costs brought it to over a million. Board of Education's ******** *** ************ incredibly agreed that the Board of Education would assume the environmental cleanup costs of the property. That cleanup has resulted in a 3 year delay, AND it's added almost another million to the cost. All of this is out of the taxpayer's pocket. The $1.2 million grant was not for acquisition of the Midland Ave building and clean up costs. It was for constructing 2 classrooms in the Midland Ave building and 5 new classrooms at FRANKLIN School. Since none of that work has begun yet, none of that money has been received.

For the record, this building was bought before O'Malley was on the Board of Ed. Members of the Board who were on the Board in 2009 and supported the project include Bernadette McDonald and Jim Doran.

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