| Summary of building costs | ||
| Source: School Building Committee, 1999-10-29 | ||
| Estimated Cost of Solving Present and Projected Enrollment | ||
| (New School - Dividence Rd. and Barrows - Addition and Renovation) | ||
| Total Cost | ||
| New School | 9,100,000 | |
| Barrows(addition and renovation) | 7,100,000 | |
| Killam | 6,645,000 | |
| Subtract State Aid | -15,077,700 | |
| ---------- | ||
| 7,767,300 | ||
| Estimated cost of 'Doing Nothing' | ||
| (maintaining class sizes, solving enrollment with portables) | ||
| Total Cost | ||
| Portables | 1,200,000 | |
| Barrows* | 2,220,750 | |
| Killam* | 3,497,500 | |
| --------- | ||
| 6,918,250 | ||
| Cost to Education | ||
| Children in portables | ||
| No Music or Art core facilities | ||
| Tremendous load on Killam/Eaton Gym and Cafeteria | ||
| Tremendous load on Killam/Eaton School Administration and Staff | ||
| Additional Busing | ||
| Significant loss of playing fields and playgrounds | ||
| * These costs represent an estimate of expected necessary repairs | ||
| based on the probablility of the systems failing over a 10 year period. | ||