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School District Moving Forward With Plans For A New High School

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With last night's City Council decision on KGV (click here, for full details), School District 57 is released from a holding pattern it's been stuck in since the heritage question arose last July.

Secretary-Treasurer, Bryan Mix, says, "We've got a lot of work to do on that site before we open a new secondary school there.  What it (council's decision) allows us to do is:  it allows us to start working with the Ministry and the architect to develop those plans."

The plan is to demolish the former KGV Elementary School, the old school administration office building and, eventually, Duchess Park Secondary to make way for a new high school.  Mix pegs the price tag of the new facility (including demolition costs) at between $18- and $20-million dollars given today's construction climate.

Mix says the vacant old school and admin building are an immediate concern, "the longer they sit on the site, the more they're a liability to the community and to the school district, so we'll be dealing with that as quickly as we can."

He expects construction on the new school will begin in the early summer of 2007.

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