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With track project under budget, Frontier School Committee plans use of extra money
The cost to construct a new track at Frontier Regional School, pictured, came in at a lower bid than expected. STAFF FILE PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
By MARY BYRNE
SOUTH DEERFIELD With the cost of a track construction project coming in at a lower bid than expected, the Frontier Regional School District School Committee approved a series of proposals on Tuesday concerning how to spend the excess money budgeted for the work, including the purchase of new track equipment and a nine- or 14-passenger van.
“Earlier this year, we talked about using $200,000 of (excess and deficiency funds) to offset the cost of the track,” Superintendent Darius Modestow explained. “The track numbers were projected to be coming in at possibly up to $800,000 and change, but the track came in at $638,750. We now have a problem kind of a good problem which is we put money aside to use E and D.”
With track project under budget, Frontier School Committee plans use of extra money
The cost to construct a new track at Frontier Regional School, pictured, came in at a lower bid than expected. STAFF FILE PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
Published: 5/14/2021 10:14:28 AM
SOUTH DEERFIELD With the cost of a track construction project coming in at a lower bid than expected, the Frontier Regional School District School Committee approved a series of proposals on Tuesday concerning how to spend that money instead, including the purchase of new track equipment and a nine- or 14-passenger van.
“Earlier this year, we talked about using $200,000 of (excess and deficiency funds) to offset the cost of the track,” Superintendent Darius Modestow explained. “The track numbers were projected to be coming in at possibly up to $800,000 and change, but the track came in at $638,750. We now have a problem kind of a good problem which is we put money aside to use E and D.”