OXFORD – Officials from Paris and SAD 17 met Tuesday to make sure they agreed on who was responsible for what as they prepare to break ground on the new Paris Elementary School.
Superintendent Mark Eastman said work on the $12 million school off High Street between Hathaway Road and Meadow Lane will begin shortly.
“We hope to be able to go out to bid the first week in May,” he said. “That would mean start of construction mid- to late June, so it’s really, really exciting.”
The school should be complete by December 2006 or early 2007, he said.
Eastman handed out a list detailing road work that will be done before the school opens. It included the reconstruction of High Street to include a sidewalk leading to the school; new streetlights at the intersections of High Street and Hathaway Road, and of High Street and Meadow Lane; and the placement of warning lights on High Street.
The school district will help with restriping in some areas and provide a crossing guard and warning lights. It also will excavate and install sewer and water connections along Hathaway Road.
Among the things Paris will be responsible for is paving Meadow Lane, the installation of a culvert at a service entrance to the school on Hathaway Road, and a payment of $150,000 toward what the Maine Department of Transportation said will be $450,000 to improve High Street.
Town Manager Sharon Jackson said voters will be asked at this year’s annual town meeting to fund the $150,000.
District voters in September approved spending $600,000 as the local share of costs for the school. The state is expected to pay $11.6 million.
The money required from Paris will be in addition to these funds.
Lewis & Malm Architecture of Bucksport has designed the 60,000-square-foot school, which will house 450 students in preschool through grade six.
Paris students today attend either Mildred Fox Elementary School in Paris or Madison Avenue School in Oxford.
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