The proposed total cost of Plan B is $115.70 million. Plan A removes the sixth grade class from the current Monroe Township Middle School and provides housing for 1,410 students. The township had transferred ownership of the site to the school district at no cost, the property is readily accessible, it has all required utilities and there are no environmental or construction issues, according to district administrators. The site was previously used as a golf range. The proposed total cost of Plan A is $99.37 million which includes the construction of a new district-wide fifth-and-sixth grade school on the 35-acre parcel at the intersection of Applegarth and Cranbury Station roads. Schools Superintendent Dori Alvich had presented three options – Plan A, Plan B,and Plan C – to the board at a Board of Education (BOE) meeting in May.Īll the proposed plans include an addition and renovations at Monroe Township High School to create 13 classrooms and three small group instruction rooms. The committee members gave their recommendations to the board at meetings in January and February.Ī third referendum, now delayed, is still in the pipeline. The BOE had commissioned an ad hoc committee after the failed referendum to review options for housing students. In 2018, a $68.8 million referendum that proposed the construction of a new middle school was defeated by 143 votes. The second question was defeated by 1,152 votes.
The proposed high school addition was contingent on the passage of the middle school question. The second question asked voters if they were in favor of building an addition to Monroe Township High School at a cost of $71 million. The first question was defeated by 995 votes. The school would have housed 1,000 students and cost $75 million to build.
The first question asked voters if they were in favor of building a new middle school on a 35-acre site at Applegarth and Cranbury Station roads. Voters defeated a two-question, $146 million referendum in March 2019. For the past two years, the district has attempted to address the dire needs through referendums however, voters defeated both referendums.
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