Swampscott Town Meeting OKs $2.1M to repair roof, expand school-building study's scope
Leigh Blander / Correspondent
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Swampscott Special Town Meeting approved two funding requests - $1.9 million to replace part of the Middle School roof and $165,000 to extend the feasibility study for a new elementary school.
“We’ve been chasing leaks for the last few years,” Swampscott Facilities Director Max Kasper said about the middle school roof, parts of which date back to 1992.
“We cannot continue to have water infiltrating into the building. We’ve had warping floors in the gym. We don’t want to see the water disintegrating structural components of the building,” he added.