To the Editor: In the emotionally charged atmosphere surrounding the financial developments of the Tisbury School project, it has been a go-to response to revisit the 2018 “scenario.” This may be all well and good, but it is also necessary to be accurate and to understand that said “scenario” may well be a chimera. The […]
To the Editor: We would like to update everyone on the ongoing activities with the Tisbury School renovation and addition project. If you have driven by the Tisbury School recently, you can see we have visible site construction activity on the grounds. The property at 55 West William Street is occupied by the construction management […]
During a marathon meeting that started with an executive session at 3 pm and ended 4½ hours later with an announcement of another meeting on Friday, the Tisbury select board unanimously approved an agreement to secure WT Rich as construction manager at risk for the Tisbury School project. The vote was subject to adjustments made […]
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Marks will exit Tisbury School project
Updated Feb 22
Richard Marks will depart from the Tisbury School Building Project. Marks, who is president of Daedalus Projects and director of the school project’s owner’s project manager team, is retiring, according to Harold Chapdelaine, chair of the Tisbury School Building Committee. Chapdelaine said Marks gave notice over the phone roughly two weeks ago that he would exit at the end of February. That news has been disseminated via email to school building committee members and town administrator Jay Grande, Chapdelaine said. A message left for Marks at Daedalus Projects’ Boston office wasn’t immediately returned Thursday afternoon. Chapdelaine said Christina Opper and Amanda Sawyer, who worked as managers of the project under Marks, will now take the lead.
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School project to cost average taxpayer $738 per year
Finance committee authorizes use of $25,000 for ‘educational’ purposes for Tisbury School renovation.
Tappe s rendering of the southeast view of Tisbury School.
For the first time, Tisbury taxpayers are getting a sense of how much a Tisbury School renovation and addition project will cost them.
At a joint meeting held between the select board, school committee, and finance committee, before the finance committee broke off to its regular business, financial consultant Lynne Welsh offered an average tax bill increase figure for the project. Welsh said using a bond debt service option called “level debt,” which she found the committees were more inclined toward than another option called “Level Principal,” repayment of a $55 million bond debt over 30 years for an $800,000 home (deemed average for Tisbury) would amount to an $738 per year increase on the average property tax b