Letters: North Adams Should Have Sought Land for School
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To the Editor:
The members of the School Building Committee trying to defend their Conte Project are neglecting an important aspect of their planning for a new school: they never even considered building a new school on a new site.
They wound up picking an old school on an old site in an unsafe location. Unfortunately, they kept their deliberations quiet, rather than asking for public input early in the process. Public input would have given them valuable information on which to base a decision.
The city owns acres of land adjacent to Windsor Lake Park and Camp Decker. Why wasn't this land considered? There is empty land that could be bought all over the east end. None of it would cost as much as the $600,000 to $700,000 already wasted on architectural analysis of those six second-rate options they considered.
We need a first rate option — a new building on a safe, spacious site — and we should not settle for less.
Katherine Montgomery
North Adams
March 17, 2013
Tags: Conte School, school building, school project,
