Another Day, Another $513,000 for New W-L High School
According to the online Arlington Sun-Gazette, “Alington School Board members on Sept. 21 will be asked to authorize an additional $513,000 to help get the Washington-Lee High School construction project back on track after a series of unexpected delays.” The Sun-Gazette adds: “Most of the funds being requested by Superintendent Robert Smith - about $495,000 worth - will go toward purchasing more than 6,000 cubic yards of filler material needed to replace remnants of old buildings buried on the existing school site in the 1970s, and for removing some of the remnants from the site.”
Arlington taxpayers deserve to know why this was never known, or at least discussed, before the bond was presented to the voters, or before the contract was awarded so that tradeoffs could be made to keep costs stable. What did the soil tests indicate? After all, the property was always under control of APS.
The request to the School Board is item E.3. on the School Board's September 21 agenda.