WALLINGFORD — The Board of Education is almost at the point of making a decision on whether to consolidate the town’s two high schools, reviewing a plan Monday to build a new high school on the Lyman Hall High School property.
The school board’s operations committee, which includes all board members, heard a presentation from representatives of Hamden-based architectural firm Silver Petrucelli on the results of a consolidation feasibility study.
The total project cost would be an estimated $187,115,480, with construction costs coming in at $154,961,060.
With the estimated state reimbursement of $82,199,830, the cost to the town would be $104,915,650.
After the presentation, Superintendent Salvatore Menzo, who is planning to leave for another position at the end of the school year, recommended that the board make a decision sooner rather than later on whether to…
