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Supervisors to get school cost briefing
County supervisors on July 28 are scheduled to learn the estimated cost for constructing a new county high school on two sites currently under consideration by the School Board.
School Board Chairman Robina Rich Bouffault said this week that school officials were expecting the estimates from their engineering consultant, Fairfax-based Gannett Fleming, by July 25. The firm has been performing geological and environmental tests on the two sites – land behind the current high school on Westwood Road ,where an addition could be built, and a parcel owned by the Ketoctin Land Company next to the Battlefield Estates subdivision in Berryville.
Once she receives the results, Bouffault said she will ask the board’s construction committee to review and comment on them.
Bouffault said she then expects to make a presentation to the Board of Supervisors during a meeting at 9:30 a.m. on July 28 at the county courthouse. And the School Board has scheduled a special meeting for 7 p.m. that night to select a site.
?gWe are under the gun; we need to get a response back to Ketoctin by the end of the month,” Bouffault said.
The School Board earlier this year entered into a contract giving it the option to purchase the approximately 60-acre Ketoctin site for about $2.5 million, with the stipulation that it could cancel the deal if that site was deemed unsuitable.
Contact the reporter at rmarlow@timespaperscom
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